Dr Beryl Carmichael from Menindee shows Dr Jonathon King her local open air supermarket. In this supermarket, the leaves, fruit and roots of the plants that grow naturally in the area can feed you and possibly save your life. There are too few people left who know their way around this supermarket and the bush foods it contains.

Some of the things she shows Jonathon include how to get water from gum leaves and twigs, the ruby saltbush, moon grubs, nardoo, quandong and even the nutritional value of kangaroo poo.

Burke and Wills attempted to survive on nardoo but did not know the correct way to prepare it. See other resources in Burke and Wills stories: nardoo, nardoo specimens and grinding stones. See also a discussion of Burke and Wills involvement with aboriginal people in the State Library of Victoria's information sheets: Burke and Wills and Aboriginal guides.