I’m just back from the Gardening Australia Expo in Adelaide where apart from selling subscriptions and magazines, I was able to link up with friends and permaculture contacts.
Articles by Steve Payne
Off to the Show; and decadent figs
OG Editor Steve Payne is off to the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show; plus a mouthwatering recipe for preserved figs.
Things Visible and Invisible
This may seem a very ‘out there’ topic for a blog for Organic Gardener, but it got me thinking about a range of ideas about the way civilization is developing and how we exist within it.
Discovering 'Uncivilisation'
Are we supporting a civilisation that will never be sustainable?
When wild things disappear
I do like to weave some poetry into OG, just as I like to search for it in the wider world.
La Via Campesina - food and farming for the Earth
Historic first visit to Australia by the organization La Via Campesina – asserting the right of communities to create and control their own democratic, local, fair and sustainable food systems.
Organic 'Hurley' burly
A surprising story that popped up this week was about British actress and model Liz Hurley which tells how she lives a double life. Outside the glamour of films and catwalks, she owns an organic farm in Gloucestershire, UK. STEVE PAYNE reports.
Choosing a better world
US author and eco-activist Frances Moore Lappé recently gave a terrific interview on ABC Radio National’s New Dimensions, reports STEVE PAYNE.
Testing Organic Food
A new Australian survey sets out to find the effect organic food has on the body’s toxin levels.
Organics promotes natural pest control
Recent research demonstrates what experienced organic farmers already knew – that organic agriculture promotes biodiversity and natural pest control.
