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Country For millennia, Australian First Nations peoples harvested this continent Future Fire, in ways that can offer Future Farming contemporary environmental and economic solutions.

ABOUT THE FIRST KNOWLEDGES SERIES

The First Knowledges series offers an introduction to First Nations knowledges in vital areas and their application to the present day and the future.

Exploring practices such as architecture and design, land management, botany, astronomy and innovation, this six-book series brings together two very different ways What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years?

The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Australian First Nations peoples. of understanding the natural world: one ancient, the other modern. The third book focuses on land and fire management.

Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe demonstrate how First Nations people cultivated the land through manipulation of water flows, vegetation and firestick practice. Not solely hunters and gatherers, First Nations people also farmed and stored food. They employed complex seasonal fire programs that protected Country and animals alike. In doing so, they avoided the killer fires that we fear today. Country: Future Fire, Future Farming highlights the consequences of ignoring this deep history and living in unsustainable ways. It details the remarkable agricultural and land-care techniques of First Nations peoples and shows how such practices are needed now more than ever.

ISBN: 9781760761554 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Australia Pty Ltd Source: Country: Future Fire, Future Farming (Book) - Creative Spirits, retrieved from https://www.creativespirits.info/resources/books/c ountry-future-fire-future-farming