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Our Book: http://geni.us/MothertheMountain
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Anastasia’s Instagram: / anast.asia
Julia’s Instagram: / juliavanderbyl

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.

Chapters:
0:00 60 years off grid: our story
0:56 Harvesting a giant protein rich super food from the forest
1:52 Preserving jackfruit into 22 meals
6:58 Cooking dinner from the orchards and garden
8:31 Harvesting baskets of mangoes with friends
9:27 Dehydrating thousands of mangoes
11:15 Picking bunya nuts from ancient trees
11:58 Preserving kilos of nuts
14:40 It’s flooding! 200mm of rain overnight!

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