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The ABC’s Organic Gardener magazine presents practical, clearly written features and excellent photography on all aspects of organic gardening and living. It sticks to the principles of good, chemical-free gardening, which supports and works together with nature. The magazine explores eco-living issues such as organic food, renewable energy, permaculture, organic farmers markets, environmentally friendly home products, and eco-travel. It provides inspiration, information and practical how-to advice and solutions on all aspects of organic gardening and a holistic lifestyle. Many of Australia’s leading organic gardeners are regular contributors including ABC Radio’s Annette McFarlane and ABC TV Gardening Australia presenters, Jerry Coleby-Williams and Josh Byrne. Published bi-monthly, ABC’s Organic Gardener is an essential companion for anyone interested in organics, gardening and a healthy, balanced lifestyle. Available from newsagents, ABC shops, and ABC centres and abcshop.com.au |
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Meet the team |
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Steve Payne - Editor I’ve been an environmental journalist for 20 years, first with the Permaculture International Journal, and now with Organic Gardener. I’ve always gravitated towards social change, environmental and social justice issues, especially the ideas of permaculture based around building better communities, creating more liveable built environments, and promoting sustainable food production methods. I grew up on a farm, moved to the city for 20 or so years and have now found a happy mid-ground of a little village in northern New South Wales (Australia), called The Channon, where I’m kept on my toes by my wife and young children. We have a small vegie patch that spills onto the street so everyone walking past can see our successes and downright failures. Our neighbours across the road, who also lack a sunny garden, have joined in. Despite my reluctance to garden publicly – out front is the only sunny spot – it does have advantages. You get plenty of good advice, and the successes inspire others to get home and start or rejuvenate their own gardens. |
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Peter Cundall Peter was born in Manchester, England, in 1927. He started gardening as a small child, later developing a vegetable garden to help support his family during the Great Depression. After military service in World War II, Palestine and Korea, in 1955 he settled in Tasmania and began full-time landscaping. In the late 1960s he began working in the media. He hosted the ABC’s Gardening Australia until 2008 and still broadcasts each week on ABC local radio. Peter writes for newspapers and magazines including ABC Organic Gardener, and has written three books on gardening. He is active in anti-war and environmental movements. |
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Jerry Coleby-Williams Jerry is a Queensland-based presenter for ABC TV’s Gardening Australia. Inspired by his family of gardeners and farmers, he has been gardening since the age of four. Jerry studied at England’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and managed the horticultural estate of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney for 11 years. In 2003 he moved to Brisbane and founded ‘Bellis’, an award-winning sustainable home and garden. Jerry is horticultural editor of Organic Gardener magazine and has appeared on talkback radio gardening shows for 13 years. See www.bellis.info |
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Annette McFarlane Annette is a senior lecturer in horticulture at the Brisbane North Institute of TAFE Grovely Campus. She has presented Gardening Talkback on ABC Radio Brisbane each Saturday morning for more than 20 years. Annette is a columnist and feature writer for newspapers and magazines including Organic Gardener. She is the author of three books, including Organic Vegetable Gardening. Her most recent title, Successful Gardening in Warm Climates, is published by Harper Collins. See www.annettemcfarlane.com |
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Penny Woodward Penny is an established garden writer and photographer who has written seven popular books about herbs, vegetables and other useful plants. These include Herbs for Australian Gardens and Growing Easy Herbs for Beauty, Fragrance and Flavour. http://www.pennywoodward.com.au/
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Phil Dudman Phil is the host of popular talkback radio show Good Gardening on ABC North Coast NSW, and producer of the award-winning ABC radio series The Garden Guru Files. He is also a TV presenter and author of bestselling ABC books The Garden Guru - Top Tips from Australian Gardeners I and II and Down to Earth Garden Design - How to Design and Build Your Dream Garden. See www.phildudman.com |
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Paul Healy Organic garden writer, farmer, poet and ABC broadcaster, Paul planted his first organic crops and reared his first fowl at age nine. He has grown his own organic food and bred rare-breed livestock for more than four decades. For the past 25 years he has bred and preserved the world's last bloodline of pioneer, free range, partridge Barnevelder chickens in Tasmania's Huon Valley. |
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Nick Romanowski Nick lives in a passive solar house he built in the ranges behind Victoria’s Great Ocean Road. He is the author of numerous books on diverse plant groups, aquaculture, and most recently a series on wetlands for the CSIRO. In their ‘spare’ time he and his wife Jan Ratcliff maintain an orchard of 400 varieties of fruit and nut trees, and get out bushwalking, snorkelling or kayaking whenever they can. |
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Graham and Annemarie Brookman Graham, Annemarie and family have created one of Australia’s most sustainable and award-winning farms. The Food Forest certified organic farm and permaculture learning centre at Gawler, South Australia, produces more than 150 varieties of fruit, nuts, herbs and vegetables, as well as cider and wine. See www.thefoodforest.com.au |
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Simon Webster A freelance journalist, photographer and author, Simon has been a passionate food grower and ABC Organic Gardener contributor for several years. As well as writing for the magazine on a wide range of topics, and blogging for the OG website, Simon edits the ABC Organic Gardener Essential Guide series. |
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