Bush Tucker Garden: Growing Australian Native Food Plants at Home

The Bush Tucker RenaissanceAustralian native food plants are experiencing a genuine culinary renaissance. Once confined to fine dining restaurants paying hundreds of dollars per kilogram for mountain pepper, lemon myrtle, or wattleseed, many of these plants are now available through specialist nurseries and relatively easy to grow at home.Lemon Myrtle: The Star of the Native KitchenBackhousia citriodora contains more citral (the compound responsible for lemon flavour) than any plant on earth —…