Felicity Kerslake has over 20 years of experience helping improve people’s health and wellbeing using bush foods and traditional medicines. Photo: Henty Machinery Field Days.
Proud Wiradjuri woman Felicity Kerslake has been using modern science and First Nations traditions to reveal the healing and nurturing abilities of nature for over 20 years.
Based in Wagga, Felicity is a qualified naturopath, nutritionist and permaculturalist who has been empowering others to restore their health and connect to nature using the power of plants including understanding natural treatments such as food as medicine, herbal medicines and growing bush foods.
This unique and valued perspective has many people looking forward to Felicity being a guest presenter at the Henty Machinery Field Days, where she will demonstrate how to create great health and wellbeing from the ground up using bush foods and medicinal plants.
“I am passionate about helping people to increase energy, master their metabolism and improve gut health in simple steps using natural medicines and bush foods so they can live each day with great health, joy and vitality,” Felicity said.
“This passion extends to educating through schools, workshops, designing bush food gardens and supporting health professionals in understanding the role bush foods and medicines have in integrative health care.
“People gain health from and connect over food. Many people have yet to experience the flavours and benefits of bush foods they most likely walk past each day or can be grown in your yard.
“If I ask someone to name an Italian food or an Indian meal, most people can answer. However, if I ask them to name an Australian native food (bush food) I may get Kakadu plum but often I hear nothing. I’m not OK with this and I don’t believe others should be either if we want to improve food security, health and the future for our children.”
Felicity said bringing bush foods to the forefront of people’s minds and connecting to nature also supported First Nations businesses in the bush food sector and those growing foods in the supply chain.
“Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities have cherished these unique botanicals for centuries and delicately cared for the land through intergenerational knowledge sharing and agroecological practices to ensure the continued availability of these plants and foods,” she said.
“Now, we can bring parts of the bush to the city and experience the extraordinary taste and benefits of bush foods and medicinal plants at home, school or workplace.”
Felicity holds professional membership with the Australian Traditional Medicines Society, has featured on SBS radio, lectured and written in textbooks for universities, and is on the Indigenous Plants for Health Association committee.
She will speak on bush foods at the Farm Gate Produce Area’s demo kitchen at 11 am on Tuesday 17, Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 September.
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