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.
How to sharpen your tools
Well-maintained tools make gardening jobs safer and easier. Justin Russell shows how to keep them sharp.
When more is less
The more the land, the more ambitious Simon Webster’s gardening vision became.
The accidental gardener
Simon Webster cottons on to a new way of gardening – expect the unexpected – at Plot Farm.
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.
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.)
What’s on my food?
Malcolm McGuire investigates what’s being sprayed on our crops, and some of the worst offenders.
Turning food to bioplastics
Two brothers are turning plant-based food waste into bioplastics, writes Dr Reese Halter.
War on Waste
Inspired by the ABC’s War on Waste, Jessamy Miller shares invaluable tips and techniques for reducing, reusing and recycling.