Plants

Our use of plants includes medicine, food, resources, tools and accessories. We also use plants as indicators of seasonal changes and events.

All plants have multiple uses including food, medicine, shelter and tools.

Plants have medicinal, resource, sustenance and spiritual value.
Patricia Ellis OAM from Moruya
Patricia Ellis OAM from Moruya

Learn more about the many ways we use plants.

Mamadha (Native Cherry)

Mamadha (Native Cherry)

Warren Foster talks about the Mummuda, or native cherry. He explains how Yuin people see it versus how settlers see the plant. Warren talks through the uses of the plant....

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Bulrush

Bulrush

Patricia Ellis OAM talks about Bullrush, how to harvest it and teaches us how to make rope with it....

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Native Plant Use

Native Plant Use

Patricia OAM Ellis talks about native plants, their importance and value and recipes using native plants....

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Buran (Stringy Bark)

Buran (Stringy Bark)

Warren Foster talks about Buran and the multiple ways stringy bark is used....

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Bush Medicine

Bush Medicine

Warren Foster talks about bush medicine. He explains how taking medicine, eating bush tucker or eating the native animals was also a way of taking in the land and a strengthening of the connection to Land and Country....

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Tea Tree

Tea Tree

Warren Foster talks about the tea tree plant, tea tree oil and the way it was used....

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Black Wattle and Rope

Black Wattle and Rope

Patricia Ellis OAM talks about Black Wattle, how to harvest it and teaches how to use it to make rope....

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Native Plant Use

Patricia Ellis talks about native plants, their importance and value and recipes using native plants.

Patricia Ellis talks about native plant use.

Welcome to the Yuin Digital Keeping Place. This website is intended to record and share information on events and people that have impacted on Yuin history, language and lifestyle. Over the coming years, we plan to keep improving and updating this website so that it can include an even wider and richer collection of stories from Yuin Families. We, the Yuin DKP Project Working Group, understand that language is living, and acknowledge that different spellings have been used throughout history. For this project, we've agreed to use the language spellings Dhurga, Djiringandj, and Dhawa. We invite the Yuin and wider community to explore and learn from this Digital Keeping Place.