Botanical Ark untaps rainforest food secrets - ABC Rural - Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Alan and Susie Carle have spent the past 30 years unlocking the nutritional secrets of the world's rainforest.
In 1978, the couple set off with their backpack to South and Central America.
Eleven months later they returned to Australia with a newborn baby and more than 80 exotic plant species.
It was to be the start of a life's work that continues today on the Carle's own patch of paradise in the beautiful Whyanbeel Valley in far north Queensland.
A former cow paddock, the property has been transformed to an oasis of tropical rainforest diversity - a place called The Botanical Ark.
But did they really set out to change the world by discovering and preserving the earth's plant species?
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