The specially designed Growth Chamber replicates growth system on the International Space Station.
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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.

This special two-layer macadamia cake features lemon-myrtle syrup, lemon curd, orange buttercream and crystallised grapefruit.
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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
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How to set up your own street garden

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

Michael Ableman
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In conversation with…

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

Sharpening secateurs
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How to sharpen your tools

Well-maintained tools make gardening jobs safer and easier. Justin Russell shows how to keep them sharp.

More or less space?
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When more is less

The more the land, the more ambitious Simon Webster’s gardening vision became. 

Surprise potato
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The accidental gardener

Simon Webster cottons on to a new way of gardening – expect the unexpected – at Plot Farm.

Linda and sunflowers
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Tassie Tales 2

After a year’s break, Linda Cockburn once again takes up the story of her family’s self-reliant lifestyle in Tasmania. The roof is just about to go on the sustainable house, the food garden is expanding– and so are the numbers of marauding wildlife.

Linda Cockburn and goats
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The Tassie Tales

Linda Cockburn cheers as the house plans are approved – but then the goat gets through the garden fence. (First published in 2004, and republished as part of our 100th issue.)

fruit and veg stall
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What’s on my food?

Malcolm McGuire investigates what’s being sprayed on our crops, and some of the worst offenders. 

Turning compostable food waste to bioplastic
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Turning food to bioplastics

Two brothers are turning plant-based food waste into bioplastics, writes Dr Reese Halter.

Craig Reucassel
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War on Waste

Inspired by the ABC’s War on Waste, Jessamy Miller shares invaluable tips and techniques for reducing, reusing and recycling.