Could native crop, kangaroo grass, become a regular ingredient in bread and help farmers regenerate land?

A native grass once harvested by Indigenous people, but these days more often overlooked as a roadside weed, could form the solution to restoring land exhausted by farming, researchers say.

As a teenager Dylan Male felt helpless as he watched his family struggle through the Millennium drought on their southern New South Wales farm.

“The sheep gathering around dams which had dwindled to no more than a mere puddle and all the crops withering away,” he said.