GRASSLANDS
Update
January 2021
What started in July as a lunch at Yambulla with Bruce Pascoe and his mob has evolved into a new and very exciting relationship with his social enterprise Black Duck Foods.
JANUARY 2021
What started in July as a lunch at Yambulla with Bruce Pascoe and his mob has evolved into a new and very exciting relationship with his social enterprise Black Duck Foods.
Bruce's book Dark Emu had cut through some deeply rusted-on ideas about our country and its relationship with its First Nations past. So we invited Bruce to visit Yambulla suspecting there might be grain harvesting opportunities here.
Interestingly, as we walked the country with him, we questioned the whole idea. It was the middle of winter when native grasses are dormant and post bush fires, there wasn’t much grass to look at.
That all changed this summer. La Nina rainfalls, soils enriched by the fire ash, a successful blackberry spray last year and the first year we had completely excluded our neighbours cows, all lead to spectacular growth in our grasslands. Really spectacular. Black Duck Foods sent up their harvester and their incredible team and harvested a year’s supply of grain at Yambulla.
We’ll post further updates here on the progress of that grain and how Black Duck Foods plan to use it.
Feel at home in our secluded, architect-designed off-grid guest lodge. Surrounded by nothing but nature as far as the eye can see.
Cool and breezy inthe summer and cosy with wood-fired central heatingin the winter.
We acknowledge the First Nations Peoples as the first inhabitants and traditional custodians of the Yambulla valley and surrounding areas.
We recognise and value their continuing connection to the land and culture.
What started in July as a lunch at Yambulla with Bruce Pascoe and his mob has evolved into a new and very exciting relationship with his social enterprise Black Duck Foods.
JANUARY 2021
What started in July as a lunch at Yambulla with Bruce Pascoe and his mob has evolved into a new and very exciting relationship with his social enterprise Black Duck Foods.
Bruce's book Dark Emu had cut through some deeply rusted-on ideas about our country and its relationship with its First Nations past. So we invited Bruce to visit Yambulla suspecting there might be grain harvesting opportunities here.
Interestingly, as we walked the country with him, we questioned the whole idea. It was the middle of winter when native grasses are dormant and post bush fires, there wasn’t much grass to look at.
That all changed this summer. La Nina rainfalls, soils enriched by the fire ash, a successful blackberry spray last year and the first year we had completely excluded our neighbours cows, all lead to spectacular growth in our grasslands. Really spectacular. Black Duck Foods sent up their harvester and their incredible team and harvested a year’s supply of grain at Yambulla.
We’ll post further updates here on the progress of that grain and how Black Duck Foods plan to use it.