After a series of conferences and seminars on indigenous food plants held throughout Victoria during 1995, it was decided by interested participants to form an organisation to represent the bushfood industry developing in Southern Australia.
The Southern Bushfood Association is a non-profit, incorporated body established to serve all sectors of the industry in southern Australia and participate in policy development at a national level.
Aims and Objectives:
To promote southern Australian indigenous plant products.
To promote due recognition of Koorie culture and food use practices and seek the involvement of Koories in the bushfood industry.
To promote information to members concerning bushfood activities for members.
To promote environmentally sustainable practices in bushfood production.
To promote the preservation of wild plant resources.
Develop an industry based on cultivation rather than wild harvesting.
Wild harvesting must be ecologically sustainable and carried out within a properly monitored, supervised and legal regime
To promote ethical bushfood business practices.
To promote education and training activities in the identification, cultivation and use of southern Australian indigenous food plants.
To support the development of a separate trading organisation which has as its primary objective the setting of environmental and food standards and the processing and marketing of members bushfoods.