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Dancing Grass

Themeda triandra, Dancing or Kangaroo grass is widespread across Australia.

It was cultivated throughout the Australian wheat belt and across the southern portion of the Northern Territory and into Western Australia by First nations people for thousands of years.

I first heard about this grass reading Dark Emu and listening to talks by Bruce Pascoe who is developing it as a crop. On his farm in Yuin Country, Bruce is nurturing a harvest of Kangaroo grass, and other native species such as panicum (native millet), weeping grass, and murnong (yam daisy)

“You’re not ploughing, you’re not using diesel, you’re not using chemicals or poisons of any kind [because] they’re Australian plants … they...

Price $1,500 | Acrylic on canvas
122.0 x 40.5cm

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