Day in the Valley – Food, Culture, Nature, Community

Have you ever tried Finger Lime Marmalade, Warrigal Greens or native Citrus Salts?  Are you curious about permaculture and native food systems?  Want to learn more about the role of creative arts in creating social change and environmental action? 

AEGN, Gum Tree Foundation, Shark Island Foundation and Waminda are excited to invite you to join us for a day trip to Kangaroo Valley to hear more about regenerative food practices, native foods, holistic responses to cultural healing, and the power of storytelling. 

The field trip will tour the amazing Winderong Farm to hear about permaculture, regenerative agriculture, and sustainable living, as well as a native foods partnership with Waminda.

We will also visit the Shark Island Kangaroo Valley creative hub to hear about some of the environmental film projects they are supporting, and enjoy a delicious lunch catered by Blak Cede, Waminda’s social and cultural enterprise café. Blak Cede cultivates traditional bush foods and medicine and delivers a food and cultural experience that gives back to the community and puts wellbeing at the heart of their practice.

Places are limited, so register to avoid missing out.

Tickets:  $100 

• Return bus transfer from Sydney to Kangaroo Valley – CBD pick up and drop off
  Members are also welcome to drive themselves - please contact us for location details.

• Winderong farm tour 

• Visit Shark Island Kangaroo Valley

• Blak Cede morning tea + lunch

About Waminda

Waminda is located on the NSW South Coast and supports Aboriginal women and their families to lead and live self-determined futures. Waminda provides a culturally safe and holistic service, providing opportunities to belong and receive quality health and well-being support.

Blak Cede is a social and cultural enterprise that enacts Waminda’s vision. Led by our community of strong Blak women, we cultivate traditional bush foods and medicine from our community garden in the Shoalhaven to produce high-quality products for our cafe and online store. The Blak Cede team is working to create meaningful connections in our community where people may be experiencing isolation, lack of culturally supportive employment opportunities and the need for connection to Country. We are engaging in our ways of Knowing, Being and Doing as practice of decolonisation and reclamation for our community. We’re using traditional knowledge to produce healthy products that people love.  

https://waminda.org.au/
https://www.aegn.org.au/project/caring-for-country-through-blak-cedes-nursery-and-cafe/

About Winderong Farm

Winderong Farm is an experimental project encompassing permaculture, regenerative agriculture, bush regeneration, sustainability and communal living. 

Set on 810 acres of stunning wilderness and farmland in beautiful Dharawal country, Kangaroo Valley, the farm hosts 12-15 full-time residents, local employees and much-loved farm animals and wildlife. We aim to embody the permaculture principle of “we are nature working” and develop a deep understanding and respect for the land we steward, all the while aiming to regenerate the earth and learn from her and each other. 

Winderong Farm was established by the founders of the Gum Tree Foundation, a charitable trust supporting environmental, First Nations and humanitarian organisations.

https://www.winderongfarm.com.au/

About Shark Island 

Shark Island Institute is a small and dedicated group of documentary filmmakers, storytellers, changemakers, strategic thinkers, creatives and community builders, founded by philanthropist and award-winning documentary filmmaker Ian Darling. We philanthropically support the documentary film sector in Australia through the Shark Island Foundation, and with the films we make and produce through Shark Island Productions we aim to tell and support great stories and create important social change, together with a coalition of our philanthropic partners. 

Shark Island Kangaroo Valley is our creative hub in the bush, where stories, scripts, songs and art are developed and where new work is supported and nurtured through an annual program of residencies for visual and performing artists, documentary filmmakers and photographers. 

https://sharkisland.com.au/