Well, now, this is very interesting. The course goes for 100 hours and covers the complete range of how to identify, grow, gather, and use bush tucker plants.
It covers a very extensive range of resources - nuts and berries, vegetables, fruits, flavourings/tea/essences. There's a few things in there of which I've not heard - Araucaria and Aleurites moluccana in the "nuts" section, for eg.
I'd give serious thought to doing the course myself if I had a spare $729 ...
What's really interesting is that I originally found this as BUSH TUCKER PLANTS BHT 328 Course - ACS Distance Education, costing £299.00 - as a British correspondence course. I was all prepared to write a rant about how native produce was taken more seriously overseas than it is in Australia (which generally it is - our export industry is still more important than the domestic one) until I did some investigation into the institution until I did more research and found it to be the "Australian Horticultural Correspondence Schools", which now has students from all over the world.
Saved from embarrassment by research and never trusting the surface of a webpage ...
You may believe these four proverbs:
A man is only as good as what he loves.
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
A man is called selfish ,not pursuing his own good ,but neglecting his neighbour's.
A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; a beautiful behavior than a beautiful form.
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