Moss May 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈🦘🌏Apr 3
Some harvested and separated #bunya #nuts #australian #natives pigeon pea (not native) and sandpaper fig in the background - all #edible #food is everywhere #educate #learn #earth #systems #survival #photography
Show threadPoesieFeb 25

The de-shelled bunya nuts. De-shelling is my least fave part of the process. It's a lot of work for a relatively small quantity of bunya and feels like it takes forever. But hey, at least i didn't cut myself with the knife! Yay!

The pesto making is going to have to wait for another day. #bunya #bunyanuts #food

Show threadPoesieFeb 25

Now drained and set aside to cool.

Read that you can drink the reddened bunya water too so had a taste (it's not a strong flavour but nice in a brothy kind of way). Though i also read it's a dye. 🤷‍♀️

#bunyanut #bunya #food

Show threadPoesieFeb 25
Boiled the bunya nuts until i saw the ends split a bit (under an hour-ish). The water goes reddy brown.
#bunya #bunyanut #food
Show threadPoesieFeb 25
Final haul of bunya nuts from the 2 pine cones. 45 was my best count. #bunyanuts #bunya
Show threadPoesieFeb 25
Hit and miss in terms of how many usable nuts you get per cone. #bunya #bunyanuts #food
PoesieFeb 25

Finally getting stuck into prepping bunya nuts (was gifted 2 pine cones), hopefully for pesto. Leaving them for a bit helps loosen things up. So easier to break up the cones. .

Please note, i am not a bunya nut expert. Have done this twice before, after YouTubing heaps of advice. So fingers definitely crossed. #bunya #bunyanuts

BellingenNSWJan 9
The season's first Bunya Pine nuts (Araucaria bidwillii) on a natural bilum bag.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araucaria_bidwillii
#flora #nuts #bunya #NaturalFibres #FibreArt #IndigenousKnowledge #IndigenousFibreCrafts
Wesley MooreJan 1

Visited the day-use area at Ewen Maddock Dam today. Saw a few birds including what appears to be an Eastern Osprey and an Olive-backed Oriole eating a caterpillar. On the way out I spotted a large Bunya nut from one of the nearby Bunya pines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araucaria_bidwillii).

#Photography #WildOz #BirdsOfMastodon #bunya

BellingenNSWNov 29, 2025

Feral pigs are running wild

"Destruction wrought by pig-borne disease is thining the canopy of bunya pine forests. Australian landscapes didn’t evolve for hard-hoofed animals and aggressive foragers with the mass of a feral pig … we are seeing severe ecological imbalances starting to occur.” >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/30/feral-pigs-queensland-rainforests-rivers-sacred-sites
#InvasiveSpecies #pigs #ungulates #bunya #SacredSites #harm

Rainforests, rivers and sacred sites ‘ripped to shreds’ by feral pigs, Queensland traditional owners warn

Destruction wrought by pig-borne disease is thining the canopy of sacred bunya pine forests and the problem is getting worse, experts say

The Guardian