
Your organic pest control kit

Learn how to keep snails, slugs and other pests in check before they eat their way through your garden.

Beetle discovery sign of hidden biodiversity

A new beetle discovery, Excastra albopilosa, sheds light on the importance of natural pest control and biodiversity.

A green learning environment

One principal’s vision to enhance his students learning environment through gardening has everyone at the school seeing green, writes Kate Neale.

Reviving the Yarra River: Melbourne’s Floating Wetlands Initiative

A new initiative is set to improve the urban ecological diversity along the Yarra River.

Heirloom seed suppliers

Following on from our top-tasting tomatoes feature in our Spring 2023 issue (OG 144), here’s a selected suppliers list to search out your favourites.

Tuning into Nature: Vote for Australia’s favourite animal sound

What is your favourite animal sound? Vote in the ABC Science national poll today!

Good news: botanists rediscover a plant thought to be extinct

It’s not often the rediscovery of a species thought to be extinct makes headlines, but botanists in Victoria have done just that.

How ‘The Last of Us’ Inspires Us to Tackle Climate Change

The hit HBO show The Last of Us creates some interesting questions around the threat and benefit of mushrooms and their role in tackling climate change.

The final frontier for agriculture: growing bush foods in space

Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria is to lead a pilot program exploring the potential of bush foods as a diet option for astronauts in Australian schools.

Happy 90th birthday ABC!

Get ready to celebrate the ABC's 90th birthday with Maggie Beer's 'symphony of citrus' celebration cake!

How to set up your own street garden

Tim Marshall looks at the dos and don'ts of setting up a suburban street garden.

In conversation with…

Simon Webster chats with organic farmer and author Michael Ableman about the healing power of growing food.