On Tuesday 15, November Diego Bonetto took our Volunteers and Friends of the VDS Association on a Wild Food Workshop tour of the Bronte gully.

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Diego is an Italian artist, naturalist and cultural worker. He regularly presents at conferences and symposiums on the ecological and cultural value of botanical species.

On this particular Tuesday morning he showed us the variety of edible plants that grow freely around our vegetable garden, all of which we had considered weeds and until then tried to clear out from our plots. Then we went into the gully and were shown a variety of plants that are edible or/and have medicinal applications.

 

We are grateful to Diego Bonetto for sharing his knowledge with us. We learned a great deal and felt inspired by his words.

 

-Marisa Minelle-Katis, Bronte Garden Coordinator