WarblesOnALot of the Northern Tablelands, NSW talks kurrajong [or bottle] tree, Aboriginals, carving, archaeology & much else for 15 min. Good stuff! Please read underbar description too.
G'day mate, Thanks mate ! I've been meaning to do this one for quite a while... Sometimes letting them brew for a year or so is a good thing... ;-p Ciao !
Never heard of a Kurrajong tree. Thanks for the education. Preparing them to eat reminded me of acorns. They can be eaten if properly leached. Each species requires slightly different preparation. Although mostly carbohydrate, they do contain some fat and protein also. We have lost so much knowledge that the native people knew. I guess if the feces ever hits the fan, those who have some of this knowledge would be the ones who survive.
G'day Jim, Thanks mate, No worries..., I figured you'd probably enjoy this one... And, yeah, trying to go back to living like a Traditional Aborigine seems to be somewhat less ridiculous than planning on Mad Max always being able to find more hidden stashes of Guzzoline, Ammunition, and Tins of Dogfood..? ;-p Ciao !
G'day, Thanks ! One of my 23 Playlists is, "Aboriginal Technology...", You may find a lot of interesting stuff in there. Enjoy (?) ! Have a good one, Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !
G'day, Thanks mate, I've been meaning to have a go at this one for years...; the Weather and Sun-Position were all lined up and there was water in the Creek, so I spent a couple or 3 days until I got a version that I couldn't guarantee to better, and here it is... ;-p Ciao !
Thanks for sharing very interesting theres not much information available. I found the kurragong bark is very good for cordage and am looking at how to sustainably harvest it. Now ill be looking for the sapplings so i dont hurt the older trees 😊 A while ago i saw a UA-cam by an indigenous man who said when harvesting bark for other things for a different tree that they always only take a certian width around the tree and always on a certain side i forget which side. So it has the best chace of recovery. That long thin scar reminded me of that. All the signs of old deforestation, and carving in living kurrajong trees are interesting. Ill be inspecting the very old tree stumps and kurrajong trees on my property 🧐 with this in mind.🤗 UA-cam also sugested the folage is good for stock in hard times.
G'day, Thanks ! Check out my "Warbles In The Wilderness..." Playlist, Specifically, "WAYLARD KURRAJONG BUDRYLDOON..." "Kurrajong that's a Tree of Life In times of Strife Five ways the Tree will give you a feed, Under the Bark there's long strong Fibres by the yard; It's an easy-carving Softwood Which on drying cures quite hard..." Preparation is complicated, and some bits are dangerous. While roasting the Seeds, The Smoke from the Hairs on their Exterior will cause Permanent Blindness upon exposure to the Cornea. So... Stand upwind, while preparing to Brew Kurrajong "Coffee"...(!). Apparently. Such is life, Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !
G'day, Thanks mate, Yeah, it puts a slightly different slant on the whole "Colonisation and Occupation" phase, as well as questioning the theory that the "more advanced" Culture won...; because the land under Sheep for 180 years won't run anything but Sheep, and it's really hard to get it to do that and break-even commercially. So with only 100 Acres which had already had a 20-year rest from being under Sheep, and had been in Regrowth-Mode for about 100 years before that...; there was no way to "farm" it, so I've been letting the Land continue to heal itself, instead of flogging it to try to make a profit. Rates on 100 Acres of failed Farmland are 1/2 what they are on 1/4 Acre in town...; the savings pays for Registering the Car..., and the bit of the World I'm responsible for has been increasing in Biomass & Biodiversity, and it's Topsoil is rising up to cover over the Rocks..., and there aren't many "Farmers" who can say that... (!). ;-p Ciao !
WarblesOnALot You've built yourself quite the move environment there Chris, and provide a safe place for the massive animals so to are a Totem indeed! Not to mention a terrific example who's uploaded a wealth of information. Sometimes I think his great it would be of more people did what you are doing, even by polling their resources and working a place together but then.. The snag in the idea is PeopleEgo. Seems to always erupt and the loop begins again of spats turning to fights turning to variation turning to laws turning to crime forming to punishment turning to rebellion turning to clams turning to boundaries turning to war lol Or the cost of Jim Jones, Mansion, etc attach to some egomaniac who MUST lead, or else! Even on some quiet communal seeing there's always the free who don't want to pull their weight and stir up resentment and such. Maybe if we could just at least keep the greedy destructionists put of state and national parks, and so kicking homeless people out of them (many of whom are just elders with no family and trying to avoid the abject Terror of our nursing home facilities, and who can blame them?). You don't fall info the elderly category by any means, but I'm glad the kangaroos have an extended human family in your kids ;) Everyone talks about how crazy Ted Turner is, but at least he used his money to buy up more real estate than anyone else and he's keeping it would for the buffalos and other typical inhabitants. He beats Trump the real estate guy out on that regard. Just curious about the land beneath your get that you said was farm land. Did you do any soil testing before you bought it? O don't know about Oz, but in the states I'm not sure I would not old farmland without it, given our use of pesticides and dumping method, prior to more stringent EPA laws. What do you think? Not sure yet, but I fear my furry son may have cancer. He seemed to rebound but has taken a turn for the worse again. Dog owners huh
+Phoenix Rising Ah, that's a bit sad about the Dog..., some breeds are apparently particularly prone to some kinds of Cancers... The Grazing Properties, running Sheep, Horses, Cattle, Goats etc are generally fairly free of Chemical Additives, apart from Superphosphate and or Lime, though often somewhere near the House and Yards they'll have an old "Dip Site", where they used to dunk the Livestock in Arsenic to kill Lice..., and my place is up on a Ridge... The Copping Country though, where it's flat and cleared, and stone-free enough to pull a Plough behind a Tractor...; it gets Defoliated, Weedicided, Fertilised, Pesticided, the Seeds are packaged in Fungicides and Anti-Helmintics, and I tend to stay well clear of the places... Mind you, lots of people buy a couple of Pressure-Cans of Insecticide to Spray around their Houses... Donald Trump seems to be about to split the GOP's Vote... He's admitted that he'll only support the GOP if they endorse him as a Candydate, and I reckon he expects the Elephants to be too scared of him being a Spoiler for them to dare to not support him... If Trump stands as an Independant then his Following will stay welded onto him, and with the Tea-Pottyists staking out their own peculuar bit of the Electorate, that'll be 3 Camps of Right Wing Looney-Tunes Fascists, all trying to out-Patriotism each other...; which will be *Great* for the Democrats... But if the GOP endorses Trump they *KNOW*, they've lost control of the Party, and if he wins, the Country too - as well as the US's claim to be anything but an Unregulated Corrupt Crony Capitslist Post-Industrial Neo-Feudalism ; and that probably won't last long, before Trump finishes up like Chauchescu (?spelling) who the Romanians killed for being a Corrupt & Incompetant Dictator... And, the bottom line is that the Koch Brothers can buy Trump a ticket to the White House, but that won't stop Climate Science from being Real and Political Economy from being delusions from Fairyland...; so, the longer the Corrupt Crony Capitalists can manage to stay in charge, the harder they and their deluded supporters and followers will be hit, and knocked flat, by Global Warming...., in the Long Run. So, yeah, buying Land and then refusing to try to "Farm" it is one of the cleverest things I can think of to do... It makes more sense than trying to buy and store a Lifetime's Supplies, in case the Zombies attack... ;-p Ciao !
I like Zombies better than preppers/hoarders lol The greedy always wind up fulfilling their paranoid fantasies that people are going to take their stuff, or take stuff back.. What's the point in buying a necklace you're too afraid to wear? Kind of thing... One thing I'll give Trump, he's caused more laughter nationwide than any of the famous comedians have in the last two years...
Phoenix Rising Have you seen "World War Z" ? There's a crackup-line, a CIA Agent in a Cage for selling Guns says of North Korea..., "It was the most brilliantly effective act of Social Engineering the World has ever seen, they extracted 23 million sets of Teeth in 3 Days..; no Teeth means no ability to bite, and if they can't bite then the Zombie-ism can't spread...!" I've had the experience of the Check being lost in the mail, and having to shoot and grill a Kangaroo to have a feed (1986), so these days I tend to keep the Pantry full. And whereas AmeriKa has it's "Strategic Petroleum Reserves", amounting to enough Crude Oil to run the entire US Economy for 6 Months, stored in a disused Salt-Mine, with Refineries set up to turn it into Fuels...; Oz has Storage Facilities for 28 days worth of Refined Fuels, the Refinery is in Singapore, and at any one time there's an average of 21 Days' Usage in the Country, but it fluctuates between 17 Days and 26... Everything on sale in every Shop in Town comes in on a Truck, except the Jam at the Super Strawbery, and in the Supermarkets there's enough food to feed 10,000 People 9 times, because everything is supplied in a "Just In Time" Basis with 3 days delivery, controlled by Stocktaking Computers connected to the Checkout Barcode Readers... When I grew up the orthodoxy was that a Thermonuclear Exchange was inevitable, so I have zero difficulty in accepting the idea of Civilisation suddenly going away ; but I was raised to be an Olde Fashioned Hillbilly, and I figure having spare Food in the Pantry isn't a bad idea..., it beats planning to walk into town to see if anything's left in the Stupormarket..., a fortnight after the Plugs are pulled. And I'm far enough off the beaten track that not many randomly roaming barbarians will be likely to show up wanting to steal my boots...(?), but I guess Time will tell... ;-p Ciao !
G'day Tom, Thanks mate ! Yeah, I've been meaning to do this Video for years, but it needed the Rain to fill the Creek, when the Sun is at the right Seasonal Angle to show the Grey-on-Grey Carvings...; so I spent a few days trying to get it to hang together, before the Creek stopped running... This has a Glitch or two, but for unscripted Edit-In-Camera, Shoot-In-Sequence..., I reckon it's pretty good, myself, too :-) Have a good one, ;-p Ciao !
tomken8dy Thanks mate, Yeah, it does tick a few boxes...; and the 2nd or 3rd time you watch it, because you have a better idea what to look at, it all hangs together better than at first viewing... For a Phonecamera, shot on the Pause Button, it's not bad at all..., even if I do say so myself... ;-p Ciao !
G'day, Thanks. Fair question.... 1) You can eat the Root of the Sucker, 2) You can eat the Growing Tip of the Sucker, 3) You can eat Seeds Raw. 4) You can make Bread from the Seed-Capsules. 5) You can roast the Seeds (being careful to stay upwind of the smoke from the Hairs on them, because if it contacts one's Eyes the result is permanent blindness...) and then grind them and make a Beverage which is high Protein, High Fat, and contains as much Cafeine as Commercial Coffee... Or so I've been told, by "Pointy-Heads" with University Educations. Have a good one, ;-p Ciao !
+deedyau12 No worries. I haven't heard anything about people eating Kurrajong Flowers or Leaves, but I have read & heard of people who were hand-feeding EuroPeon Livestock during Droughts having been known to cut Kurrajong Branches, in order to feed their Leaves to the Cattle & Sheep.. Maybe someone should try munching on Kurrajong Leaves or Flowers, maybe..(?). Have a good one, ;-p Ciao !
"And the land has not forgotten...". I reckon you are right.
G'day,
Thanks !
Stay safe,
;-p
Ciao !
WarblesOnALot of the Northern Tablelands, NSW talks kurrajong [or bottle] tree, Aboriginals, carving, archaeology & much else for 15 min. Good stuff! Please read underbar description too.
G'day mate,
Thanks, I thought you'd enjoy it...
;-p
Ciao !
Thanks Warbles...
Very interesting...
G'day mate,
Thanks mate !
I've been meaning to do this one for quite a while...
Sometimes letting them brew for a year or so is a good thing...
;-p
Ciao !
Never heard of a Kurrajong tree. Thanks for the education. Preparing them to eat reminded me of acorns. They can be eaten if properly leached. Each species requires slightly different preparation. Although mostly carbohydrate, they do contain some fat and protein also. We have lost so much knowledge that the native people knew. I guess if the feces ever hits the fan, those who have some of this knowledge would be the ones who survive.
G'day Jim,
Thanks mate,
No worries..., I figured you'd probably enjoy this one...
And, yeah, trying to go back to living like a Traditional Aborigine seems to be somewhat less ridiculous than planning on Mad Max always being able to find more hidden stashes of Guzzoline, Ammunition, and Tins of Dogfood..?
;-p
Ciao !
Love the video! Youre a wealth of knowledge! Amazing find.
We must protect whats left. The australian landscape needs those old trees
very interesting to learn more about this wonderful tree!
G'day,
Thanks !
One of my 23 Playlists is,
"Aboriginal Technology...",
You may find a lot of interesting stuff in there.
Enjoy (?) !
Have a good one,
Stay safe.
;-p
Ciao !
Very interesting Warbles thanks.
G'day,
Thanks mate, I've been meaning to have a go at this one for years...; the Weather and Sun-Position were all lined up and there was water in the Creek, so I spent a couple or 3 days until I got a version that I couldn't guarantee to better, and here it is...
;-p
Ciao !
Thanks for sharing very interesting theres not much information available.
I found the kurragong bark is very good for cordage and am looking at how to sustainably harvest it. Now ill be looking for the sapplings so i dont hurt the older trees 😊
A while ago i saw a UA-cam by an indigenous man who said when harvesting bark for other things for a different tree that they always only take a certian width around the tree and always on a certain side i forget which side. So it has the best chace of recovery. That long thin scar reminded me of that.
All the signs of old deforestation, and carving in living kurrajong trees are interesting. Ill be inspecting the very old tree stumps and kurrajong trees on my property 🧐 with this in mind.🤗
UA-cam also sugested the folage is good for stock in hard times.
G'day,
Thanks !
Check out my
"Warbles In The Wilderness..."
Playlist,
Specifically,
"WAYLARD KURRAJONG BUDRYLDOON..."
"Kurrajong that's a Tree of Life
In times of Strife
Five ways the Tree will give you a feed,
Under the Bark there's long strong
Fibres by the yard;
It's an easy-carving Softwood
Which on drying cures quite hard..."
Preparation is complicated, and some bits are dangerous.
While roasting the Seeds,
The Smoke from the Hairs on their
Exterior will cause
Permanent Blindness upon exposure to the Cornea.
So...
Stand upwind, while preparing to
Brew
Kurrajong "Coffee"...(!).
Apparently.
Such is life,
Have a good one...
Stay safe.
;-p
Ciao !
Great footage , mate . Regards Bob
G'day Bob,
Thanks mate !
I reckoned you might enjoy this one,
;-p
Ciao !
Very interesting Chris!
G'day,
Thanks mate,
Yeah, it puts a slightly different slant on the whole "Colonisation and Occupation" phase, as well as questioning the theory that the "more advanced" Culture won...; because the land under Sheep for 180 years won't run anything but Sheep, and it's really hard to get it to do that and break-even commercially.
So with only 100 Acres which had already had a 20-year rest from being under Sheep, and had been in Regrowth-Mode for about 100 years before that...; there was no way to "farm" it, so I've been letting the Land continue to heal itself, instead of flogging it to try to make a profit.
Rates on 100 Acres of failed Farmland are 1/2 what they are on 1/4 Acre in town...; the savings pays for Registering the Car..., and the bit of the World I'm responsible for has been increasing in Biomass & Biodiversity, and it's Topsoil is rising up to cover over the Rocks..., and there aren't many "Farmers" who can say that... (!).
;-p
Ciao !
WarblesOnALot You've built yourself quite the move environment there Chris, and provide a safe place for the massive animals so to are a Totem indeed! Not to mention a terrific example who's uploaded a wealth of information.
Sometimes I think his great it would be of more people did what you are doing, even by polling their resources and working a place together but then.. The snag in the idea is PeopleEgo. Seems to always erupt and the loop begins again of spats turning to fights turning to variation turning to laws turning to crime forming to punishment turning to rebellion turning to clams turning to boundaries turning to war lol Or the cost of Jim Jones, Mansion, etc attach to some egomaniac who MUST lead, or else! Even on some quiet communal seeing there's always the free who don't want to pull their weight and stir up resentment and such. Maybe if we could just at least keep the greedy destructionists put of state and national parks, and so kicking homeless people out of them (many of whom are just elders with no family and trying to avoid the abject Terror of our nursing home facilities, and who can blame them?). You don't fall info the elderly category by any means, but I'm glad the kangaroos have an extended human family in your kids ;)
Everyone talks about how crazy Ted Turner is, but at least he used his money to buy up more real estate than anyone else and he's keeping it would for the buffalos and other typical inhabitants. He beats Trump the real estate guy out on that regard.
Just curious about the land beneath your get that you said was farm land. Did you do any soil testing before you bought it? O don't know about Oz, but in the states I'm not sure I would not old farmland without it, given our use of pesticides and dumping method, prior to more stringent EPA laws. What do you think?
Not sure yet, but I fear my furry son may have cancer. He seemed to rebound but has taken a turn for the worse again. Dog owners huh
+Phoenix Rising
Ah, that's a bit sad about the Dog..., some breeds are apparently particularly prone to some kinds of Cancers...
The Grazing Properties, running Sheep, Horses, Cattle, Goats etc are generally fairly free of Chemical Additives, apart from Superphosphate and or Lime, though often somewhere near the House and Yards they'll have an old "Dip Site", where they used to dunk the Livestock in Arsenic to kill Lice..., and my place is up on a Ridge...
The Copping Country though, where it's flat and cleared, and stone-free enough to pull a Plough behind a Tractor...; it gets Defoliated, Weedicided, Fertilised, Pesticided, the Seeds are packaged in Fungicides and Anti-Helmintics, and I tend to stay well clear of the places...
Mind you, lots of people buy a couple of Pressure-Cans of Insecticide to Spray around their Houses...
Donald Trump seems to be about to split the GOP's Vote...
He's admitted that he'll only support the GOP if they endorse him as a Candydate, and I reckon he expects the Elephants to be too scared of him being a Spoiler for them to dare to not support him...
If Trump stands as an Independant then his Following will stay welded onto him, and with the Tea-Pottyists staking out their own peculuar bit of the Electorate, that'll be 3 Camps of Right Wing Looney-Tunes Fascists, all trying to out-Patriotism each other...; which will be *Great* for the Democrats...
But if the GOP endorses Trump they *KNOW*, they've lost control of the Party, and if he wins, the Country too - as well as the US's claim to be anything but an Unregulated Corrupt Crony Capitslist Post-Industrial Neo-Feudalism ; and that probably won't last long, before Trump finishes up like Chauchescu (?spelling) who the Romanians killed for being a Corrupt & Incompetant Dictator...
And, the bottom line is that the Koch Brothers can buy Trump a ticket to the White House, but that won't stop Climate Science from being Real and Political Economy from being delusions from Fairyland...; so, the longer the Corrupt Crony Capitalists can manage to stay in charge, the harder they and their deluded supporters and followers will be hit, and knocked flat, by Global Warming...., in the Long Run.
So, yeah, buying Land and then refusing to try to "Farm" it is one of the cleverest things I can think of to do...
It makes more sense than trying to buy and store a Lifetime's Supplies, in case the Zombies attack...
;-p
Ciao !
I like Zombies better than preppers/hoarders lol The greedy always wind up fulfilling their paranoid fantasies that people are going to take their stuff, or take stuff back.. What's the point in buying a necklace you're too afraid to wear? Kind of thing...
One thing I'll give Trump, he's caused more laughter nationwide than any of the famous comedians have in the last two years...
Phoenix Rising
Have you seen "World War Z" ?
There's a crackup-line, a CIA Agent in a Cage for selling Guns says of North Korea..., "It was the most brilliantly effective act of Social Engineering the World has ever seen, they extracted 23 million sets of Teeth in 3 Days..; no Teeth means no ability to bite, and if they can't bite then the Zombie-ism can't spread...!"
I've had the experience of the Check being lost in the mail, and having to shoot and grill a Kangaroo to have a feed (1986), so these days I tend to keep the Pantry full.
And whereas AmeriKa has it's "Strategic Petroleum Reserves", amounting to enough Crude Oil to run the entire US Economy for 6 Months, stored in a disused Salt-Mine, with Refineries set up to turn it into Fuels...; Oz has Storage Facilities for 28 days worth of Refined Fuels, the Refinery is in Singapore, and at any one time there's an average of 21 Days' Usage in the Country, but it fluctuates between 17 Days and 26...
Everything on sale in every Shop in Town comes in on a Truck, except the Jam at the Super Strawbery, and in the Supermarkets there's enough food to feed 10,000 People 9 times, because everything is supplied in a "Just In Time" Basis with 3 days delivery, controlled by Stocktaking Computers connected to the Checkout Barcode Readers...
When I grew up the orthodoxy was that a Thermonuclear Exchange was inevitable, so I have zero difficulty in accepting the idea of Civilisation suddenly going away ; but I was raised to be an Olde Fashioned Hillbilly, and I figure having spare Food in the Pantry isn't a bad idea..., it beats planning to walk into town to see if anything's left in the Stupormarket..., a fortnight after the Plugs are pulled.
And I'm far enough off the beaten track that not many randomly roaming barbarians will be likely to show up wanting to steal my boots...(?), but I guess Time will tell...
;-p
Ciao !
This is a great, educational video!
G'day Tom,
Thanks mate !
Yeah, I've been meaning to do this Video for years, but it needed the Rain to fill the Creek, when the Sun is at the right Seasonal Angle to show the Grey-on-Grey Carvings...; so I spent a few days trying to get it to hang together, before the Creek stopped running...
This has a Glitch or two, but for unscripted Edit-In-Camera, Shoot-In-Sequence..., I reckon it's pretty good, myself, too :-)
Have a good one,
;-p
Ciao !
WarblesOnALot
I like it a LOT!
tomken8dy
Thanks mate,
Yeah, it does tick a few boxes...; and the 2nd or 3rd time you watch it, because you have a better idea what to look at, it all hangs together better than at first viewing...
For a Phonecamera, shot on the Pause Button, it's not bad at all..., even if I do say so myself...
;-p
Ciao !
Merci
-treehugger
Hope you kept the strangler!
Warbles... Did you find out anymore on that strangler vine/fig?
Ah, well, not as such...; I've been kinda slack on that front, generally when in town I'm running late, or the NPWS is shut...
;-p
Ciao !
Can you tell me how to grow Kurrajong trees from seed? Thank you.
G'day,
Thanks.
Sorry, but it isn't a thing that I've tried to do...; Gardening isn't one of my strong suits...
Have a good one,
;-p
Ciao !
You said there are 5 ways to get a feed from the kurrajong. 1 seeds 2. tap root 3. seed pod can you please enlighten me on the other 2. Flower? leaf?
G'day,
Thanks.
Fair question....
1) You can eat the Root of the Sucker,
2) You can eat the Growing Tip of the Sucker,
3) You can eat Seeds Raw.
4) You can make Bread from the Seed-Capsules.
5) You can roast the Seeds (being careful to stay upwind of the smoke from the Hairs on them, because if it contacts one's Eyes the result is permanent blindness...) and then grind them and make a Beverage which is high Protein, High Fat, and contains as much Cafeine as Commercial Coffee...
Or so I've been told, by "Pointy-Heads" with University Educations.
Have a good one,
;-p
Ciao !
sorry i was asking a question are leafs and flowers edible?
Thanks
+deedyau12
No worries.
I haven't heard anything about people eating Kurrajong Flowers or Leaves, but I have read & heard of people who were hand-feeding EuroPeon Livestock during Droughts having been known to cut Kurrajong Branches, in order to feed their Leaves to the Cattle & Sheep..
Maybe someone should try munching on Kurrajong Leaves or Flowers, maybe..(?).
Have a good one,
;-p
Ciao !