The lessons Pascoe, 72, seeks to impart by bringing his own essays to life - and to dinner tables - go beyond appropriation. “Because that’s what Australia has found hard, including Aboriginal people in anything.” “I became concerned that while the ideas were being accepted, the inclusion of Aboriginal people in the industry was not,” he said. The farm he owns on a remote hillside a day’s drive from Sydney and Melbourne aims to correct for colonization - to ensure that a boom in native foods, caused in part by his book, “Dark Emu,” does not become yet another example of dispossession. Most of them were Yuin men, from the Indigenous group that called the area home for thousands of years, and Pascoe, who describes himself as “solidly Cornish” and “solidly Aboriginal,” said inclusion was the point. A few others would fix up a barn or visitor housing. Someone needed to check on the yam daisy seedlings. WALLAGARAUGH, Australia - Bruce Pascoe stood near the ancient crops he has written about for years and discussed the day’s plans with a handful of workers.
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