Beautiful Nature and a Rural Life: Growing Our Own Food in the Countryside

This week we sow seeds, plant, tend and harvest all of the tropical fruits of The Australian rainforest, learning how to cook and feed ourselves from their rich flesh. 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. Music by @hollowcoves Interlude, On the Way and These Memories Chapters: 0:00 The beauty of nature 0:58 Planting bananas 2:01 Harvesting lauki 2:14 Cooking kofta 2:56 Collecting gular figs 3:37 Cooking Indian curry 4:37 Picking green jambu and red jambu 5:35 Cooking a curry from jambu 6:55 Skipping with the goats 8:53 Gardening 11:14 A hot afternoon at the waterfall 12:39 Chainsawing a tree on the fence 13:37 Farm chores and wasps 14:13 Ducklings in the stream 14:59 Upcycling