You can catch us locally at our stall or festivals here on Stradbroke Island.
Location
Goompi Minjerribah - North Stradbroke Island Australia
Marrukakilikan - Thriving Now
Everything the family needs to thrive and have fun in the sun, all in one place.
First Nations Family Made Hand Crafts and Wares
Based on North Stradbroke Island, Australia
Why Choose Us?
We are on a mission to thrive no matter what and build the tribe.
Carrying on in the footprints of our parents and grandparents, we are passing on the skills taught to us and bringing you these creations.
Living off grid and working on building a food forest big enough to sustain our community well into the future, all proceeds go towards the projects success and viability.
With each product sold you are helping us grow food for the future, achieve not just food security but food sovereignty. We appreciate every single but of support coming through our family business. Thank you 🙏
I love my new Straddie Gear dresses, the fabric is so pretty, and also they are light and comfy , i always get compliments when i wear them. Cant wait to check out your new stuff. Thank you Kaiyu and the Krew for your great brand of clothing !!I did a lot of birthday shopping for my nieces and nephews throughout the year. Love this gear , and will continue to shop here in the future !!
Great gear and for a great cause!!
it is very inspirational gear!
About Us
Kaiyu Bayles
store owner/creator
Marrukakilikan - one who is in a state of wellbeing, happiness, or one who is patient if in adversity. In my mother’s language, Gringai of the hunter valley.
We would like to teach our children how to live a long happy life, as free of the worries of the western world as possible. To create a space where we can revive our old ways n thrive again as we did before the boats came. By 2022 we hope to set up bush school where they learn to grow, hunt n heal as well as the basics.
“Learning as we go” are the key words
Western food and lifestyle are killing us quicker than people realise. Both my partner and I have no parents, grandparents and alot of our younger ones are now terminally ill and or so many dying prematurely. Things need to change, especially for us who were raised in the cities with lil to know regular bush food.
The project is a big family group boomeranging back to the bush from being raised all their lives in the city, to live in line with our old ways and to provide a model for a way forward that is sustainable and only using best practice. Regenerative living systems is the ultimate obviously and we hope to share our journey online through how to videos, so that others are inspired.
Our goal is to be totally self sufficient, spending our time working to secure healthy, affordable food for our community all year round. It will b the 1st time in 230 years that we have the opportunity to return to our tribal way of life, obviously it won’t be exactly the same. But using today’s ways of knowing n doing combined with tribal ways, we know we’ll create something others will want to replicate. Eventually, putting us in a position to bring back the old bartering and trade systems.
We have built our own home on country here on Stradbroke island, we are planning to set up a good size food garden n run courses on agro forestry and regenerative living systems. But we need a means to become self sustaining, an outlet to sell our produce and wares to the public. We run a free fun fitness program in community and found a lot of people just arent getting the results they should because the price of fresh produce over here is too high.
Any support would be appreciated to get things in place so our community can one day be self sufficient.
Kaiyu Bayles
Founder and Creator
