Club Meeting, 18 May ’26; Speaker & Topic: Emeritus Professor Robert Henry – Potential New Bush Foods
DATE & TIME
- 18 May 2026
- 7.30pm Arrival
- This event commences in:
Meeting Speaker: Sally Johnsen
LOCATION
- Toowong Uniting Church Hall, 82 Sherwood Road, Toowong
Introduction
Emeritus Professor Robert Henry, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland
Potential New Bush Foods
Robert’s passion stems from the slow awakening to the enormous, untapped food and cropping potential of countless indigenous plant species whose genetics could be critical to the planet’s food security. Internationally, northern Australia is already being talked about as the frontier for new plant genetics in indigenous grain-bearing grasses, pulses and fruits. This is of potentially huge value to plant breeders needing to bolster domesticated crops with increased climate resilience.
Photo to the right: Professor Robert Henry, Director of the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation at The University of Queensland – Inspecting wild Australian rice.
