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We are sisters, Julia and Anastasia Vanderbyl. A few years ago, we began a journey to live a life in perfect harmony with nature. A life of caring for animals, growing fruit, planting trees, gardening, cooking, creating, building and learning to live with the land.
In this time, nature has taught us more than we could have ever imagined.
Our environmental films document the landscape, the lessons we’ve learnt and our work as regenerative farmers here on Bundjalung Country.
We live on the land of the Arakwal and Minjungbal People of the Bundjalung Nation. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Country we live on and recognise their continuing connection to the land and waters. We thank them for protecting this rainforest and its ecosystems since time immemorial.
0:00 Poisonous but delicious monstera fruit
1:54 Harvesting guavas with the goats
5:21 Pecan nuts and naught cockatoos
6:40 Rare Macadamias
7:40 Picking fruit from the massive guava tree
8:52 Harvesting custard apples and why I’m taking you on this tour
10:59 Jackfruit, lychees and persimmons
12:38 A massive mango orchard
13:25 Allergies, pitanga and jambu
14:45 Sheep and their role in the food forest
17:26 Hog plums!
18:04 Macheteing my way through the jungle to find the trees I planted
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US history is full of surprises! Today, we dig into Johnny Appleseed. Why did he plant all those apples? And…. did he plant all those apples?
Edit 12.3.25: There are some questions I’m coming up repeatedly in the comments.
Nope, John Chapman wasn’t planting trees to claim homesteads. Tree claims came with the Timber Culture Act of 1873. The idea was to get people to plant trees on the western prairies Think Minnesota on west. John Chapman lived & worked much further east, in the Ohio Valley. It was already full of trees so there was no need to get people to plant them. He also died in 1845 decades before “plant some trees to prove the land is yours” was a thing you could do.
-“But he couldn’t have just taken over older orchards! Those are older trees! And he was selling saplings!” You’ll never guess what happens in abandoned orchards… saplings sprout from the fallen fruit.
-Yes, the British redcoat uniform was dyed with red madder. If you heard that they used cochineal, cochineal was for officers. It made a slightly more saturated color, but it was also more expensive. So officers, who bought their own uniforms and tended to come from a higher class background, bought themselves redcoats that were dyed with cochineal. And officers are a small minority in the military. Regular troops were given government-issue uniforms. These were dyed with red madder. Because it was cheaper, and still bright red. Source: https://research.colonialwilliamsburg…
Note: For food systems of Eastern Woodlands tribes, I did the best research I could with the sources available- mostly written by European missionaries and traders. They can be pretty patchy when it comes to food, since farming and cooking were both women’s work in the Eastern Woodlands. If you’re part of these communities and have better information, let me know!
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