Dishing up a natural solution
Here's a simple, natural recipe for dishwasher soap tablets to use...
Sustainable living
Your ultimate guide to living sustainably—from chemical-free chooks and children, to inspiring people, homes and gardens.
Organic homes
Make your home an eco-friendly haven
Renovations large and small can make your home a more...
Organic life
How to get started with ethical investing
Do you want to invest your money ethically? Simon Webster shares...
Herculean hemp
Hemp is the Hercules of the plant world – a remarkable drought-...
Inspirational gardens
Tomato bonanza
Cheryl McGaffin has about 180 different tomato varieties growing...
Beautiful garden books reviewed
These joyous garden books are well worth reading says Penny...
Poultry & livestock
Fun names for chooks
Calling your chook Meryl Cheep, or Yolko Ono might be going too...
How to hold a chook
There are all sorts of reasons you may need to hold your hens,...
Your child
Garden of knowledge
KYLIE MCGREGOR profiles Kindlehill School and...
Treating head lice
With the incidence of head lice on the rise, KYLIE McGREGOR looks...
Climate change
Start with the soil
Regenerative agriculture is modelled on nature, sequesters carbon...
Why grow heirlooms?
Heirloom edibles are important to our survival, and that of the...
Farming
Saving seeds for our future
Penny Woodward talks with Peter Carlyon and Robin Koster-Carlyon...
Farming for the future
There is a theme running through the work done by Declan McGill and...
Galleries
Patch from Scratch Pictures, plans and more from the Gordon’s makeover.
Videos
The observer
From her first visit, Tasmanian forests had a profound effect on Miranda Gibson. This would go on to become a passion to protect those forests from logging and ultimately led to her spending 449 days, 60 metres above the ground in a tree that was named Observer Tree. After nearly 15 months shut off from reality Miranda was forced to evacuate the tree last year. Since then the area where Observer Tree stands and the surrounding forest have been given World Heritage status. Ella Richmond is an ABC Open contributor who also works part-time in a non-editorial role at ABC Local Radio in Hobart. This film was produced in her own time after attending an ABC Open video workshop.
Being part of the solution
Robyn Francis is a person gardener. For over 30 years she has taught communities across the world about Permaculture, empowering them with practical ways to produce food, regenerate damaged landscapes and connect community. Robyn the Activator from ABC Open North Coast NSW on Vimeo.
Life lessons
Costa Georgiadis heads to a senior school in Port Kembla to check out their vegetable garden, which is used by students as a central plank in their curriculum and as a way of helping some with social re-engagement.
The way of the future
Sophie Thomson visits Port Augusta to explore a world first greenhouse project, which is growing vegetables by harnessing the power of the sun and sea.