Registrations are open for the June SA Climate Ready Regions Webinars.  

At 3.30pm each Thursday during June you will be able to join these 60-75 minute webinars. 

Held in partnership with the Adaptation Practitioners Network who share and showcase climate resilience work being undertaken across South Australia. 

Indigenous Wisdom

(Webinar)

The idea of people understanding the origin and cultural knowledge of native foods and practices of land management that’s thousands of years old is being matched with Urban agriculture and is a growing trend around the world. With rooftop farms such as New York’s Brooklyn Grange supplying produce for the local community. There are city farms in Sydney and the Yerrabingin Indigenous rooftop farm, the 500-square-metre garden created on the rooftop of a office block, smack bang in the middle of Sydney’s Eveleigh industrial park.  

Speakers

Christian Hampson Co-Founder Yerrabingin – “Indigenous Wisdom during the Climate Emergency. Exploring the balance of environmental, cultural, social and economic sustainability” Christian is a Woiwurrung and Maneroo Aboriginal man interweaving Indigenous tacit knowledge and collaborative design thinking to walk a new path, away from conventional approaches, creating opportunities for intergenerational capital to allow future Indigenous generations to thrive. Yerrabingin provides sustainable solutions coupled with cultural connectivity and shared understanding to solve problems within the space of our communities’ social capital potential, through the lens of design thinking. Yerrabingin launched the world’s first Indigenous rooftop farm, on the roof of Yerrabingin House with over 2,000 Australian native food plants. Last year they were the 2019 Delicious Outstanding Native Producer Award Winner, Award of Merit -  Australian Institute Horticulture Annual Awards, Winner of Excellence in Community Engagement - Urban Developer Awards and Winner Public and Urban Project Award – Sustainability Awards. 

Yuandamarra (To be confirmed)  

Yuandamarra is the Founding Member of Red Centre Enterprises based in SA, a respected Elder, Medicine and Traditional Lore-man who lives and works in Aboriginal communities across Australia.  Yuandamarra brings a lifetime of extensive knowledge together with Traditional lore (law) and culture for Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islanders and the wider community. He understands the importance of working in unity and developing strong community based programs to meet their needs, this has led to better outcomes regarding Youth, Enterprise, Education, Employment, Health, Environment and Social Inclusion, and the many other factors that impact on the quality of people’s lives. Red Centre Enterprises was a vision, a simple seed planted by Elders many years ago, nurtured by wisdom and good spirit.