Daniel Rodgers

Me in a tree. 🌿🌿 Lutruwita [-o-] February 2026 📸 @mchellell

Absolute honour to work and play alongside the Jinibara and Gubbi Gubbi elders past, present and future. What an epic return to Woodfordia. Thanks Aunty Faith for having me along. Thanks Uncle Cowboy for honouring my lifetime membership to the A-Team. Thanks to Uncle Kenny, Aunty Zeitha, Aunty Sue, Uncle Lyndon and all the elders. Thanks to brothers Chris, Kieren, Craig, Robby, Danny, Luca, Rhan, Coedie and all the mob. Was great to see my brother Leelan down from Kuranda. Thanks to baby Opal and all the jarjums. Thanks to my beautiful mumma for birthing me and joining me in this crazy world, and bringing my beautiful aunty along. Thanks to the glorious land for having us. The bushtukka for feeding us. The plants and animals for speaking to us. And all the people for sharing it with us, way too many to name, I love you all. Woodfordia ain't seen the last of me, I'll be back next year with more bunyas and bushtukka to share, lots of laughs and beautiful memories. gan djawun dyinibara this country Jinibara ya yawan nguwan nawa ming they say you are strangers today nawa waga bindygu strangers not tomorrow 🌿

Gonna plant mumsy a hundred plants, make up for my time as a lad 🌿

Big days out here. I had the epiphany this weekend of the doof as the vision quest.. the struggles, the pushing through, the set-backs and the triumph! After this little afternoon snooze at my homies post-apocalyptic expresso martini party, I woke up with five minutes to run back to camp, grab my bike, replenish the refreshments, and boost to the other end of site for the opening ceremony. It's something that's very important to me and I never miss, to be welcomed by the traditional custodians is maybe the only non-negotiable on the setlist at any gathering I attend. It puts everything else into frame. It sets the tone for the vision quest. Why am I here? What is the land going to show me this time? Funnily enough my most memorable moment is getting the shits with watching everyone having to navigate the pile of bikes at the choke point entry to the stage, so I got down out of the bodhi tree and moved them all. I got a few helping hands, fistbumps and thankyous from the homies around, and I realised I just showed them we can all be custodians, if we choose. That was my song and dance. I think the blackfullas were dancing the curlew at the time, I dunno what that means haha. The land was unforgivably hot this weekend, it certainly took alot of fortitude and community care to get through. But my highlight was dancing at the Atrium as the sweet relief of an afternoon summer storm came through on Sunday to wash it all away. The crowd went wild. The community care of looking out for each other's tents and belongings was amazing. Everyone felt so safe. Everyone was so looked after. Peoples tents were zipped up, awnings were lowered, marquees burped, belongings secured under any available shelter at camp and at the dancefloor. And not only did the party continue, it pumped up!! People helped the people. And Wow. We not only survived, we thrived! The late nights. The insane heat. The pouring rain. The deep emotions. The absolute shenanigans. Well done humans. I love you. 🌿 📷 Kitti in an attempt at revenge for my photo of her and her daughter sleeping earlier in the day haha

Happy New Yam! 💪🏼🌿

Had to get a photo or nobody would believe premmie came this far south and surprised us for our new year celebrations, had to send him on his way with lots of plants of course 🌿

Three dingleberries in a tree older than jebus 🤦‍♂️🌿

Accountability is awareness, acknowledgment, apology and action. Sorry doesn't cut it. Reconciliation doesn't really either. It ain't about being friendly. It's not even about being an ally. It's about being accountable. I live within a system built from the destruction and oppression of the original peoples of these lands. Gijeri yugambeh maibin. I benefit from my place amongst this society in ways that are both obvious and clandestine, overt and subtle. It is my responsibility to not just become aware of those injustices, not to just acknowledge, not to just apologise, but to take action. To continuously deepen my understanding and my influence as we walk this long journey of healing together. At the top of the stairs, there is no doorway to walk through, just the glaring obvious truth of this country. This is Aboriginal land. [-o-]

We tend to base our self-esteem on what other people think of us and that's not really self-esteem. Self-esteem is supposed to be how we feel about ourselves and it's dangerous to allow other people to determine how you're going to feel about you. It's kind of like looking into a broken mirror and then trying to change your face to try to look good in this defiled, busted, broken mirror. Other people's opinions are a really shity way to determine how we feel about ourselves and that's all I'm going to say about that. ~ Will Smith

Helping people in their gardens is what I love to do. Stewarding the land and empowering others to steward the land is a core part of who I am and what I'm here to do. This is the Grounded way. Grounded with a big G, that's how we roll, with that big G energy. If you wanna get down with us then roll on up, let's go, we need alot more empowered earth keepers if we're gonna keep this show on the road. So what are you waiting for? Come and get down with the Grounded crew. 🌿🌿🌿

@grounded.permaculture moonthly meetups are a great chance to connect, catchup, sus out and help out each other's gardens, trade tips and propagation materials, eat epic food and generally just have some good wholesome fun.. but for some reason I seem to more often than not find myself doing some bush-mechanics on a remote control car or trying to help figure out which chicken looks most like which kid 🤣🌿 📸&👶 @edencreeksanctuary 🏡 @newviewfarmers2

Teaching this young mob how to care for fire, themselves and their environment was a real honour. We need more uncles and aunties in this world. Love up the young ones 🔥🌿