The families from Minyerri harvest the leaves from these trees for their Gulbarn Tea business. The melaleuca citrolens has been used forever by the Indigenous people of this region for healing coughs and colds, but unlike western medicine, it’s delicious. Laura Egan from Enterprise Learning Projects has been incubating the business with local Mum, Samara Billy, for a few years now.

I was grateful for my invitation to tell this story. I discovered that Gulbarn goes well beyond an economic opportunity - it brings families together in industry, and shares the knowledge and culture handed down by their elders, not just between local people, but wherever it is distributed - in restaurants and retailers across Australia.

This video is an invitation from the Minyerri families to the world, to try Gulbarn Tea and share the culture and generous spirit that are the foundation of this enterprise.