The health of native food and native food for health

Food belonging to country is often limited, endangered or disregarded. Introduced foods dominates the food market and landscape. Native food is suffocated in policies designed to protect introduced food and to legislate the corporate ownership of selling native food. The omissions of native food preservation have eroded from everyday association and impact on the societal consciousness. The intact ecosystems supporting the survival of native food are destroyed in preference for the introduced food. The constraints and destruction of native food remove the choice and sustainability to consume only native food. To begin a reconnection and awareness to native food requires a foundation to start the conversations. An investigation of consuming native food for one month in Tasmania as an Aboriginal researcher has instigated a grassroots approach of awakening absent discussions and the connections to native food in a current context. The results are both exciting and alarming.