Could native crop, kangaroo grass, become a regular ingredient in bread and help farmers regenerate land?
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Dylan Male and James Hunt are sowing Kangaroo Grass at a test paddock in central Victoria.
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A native grass once harvested by Indigenous people, but these days more often overlooked as a roadside weed, could form the solution to restoring land exhausted by farming, researchers say.
Key points:
The grass is resistant to prolonged drought and extreme changes in temperature
The research project is looking at whether Kangaroo Grass could be produced on a mass scale by Australian farmers