Costa Georgiadis
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In conversation with: Costa Georgiadis

Costa Georgiadis's love of gardening is an absolute joy, and it's catching. The best part? He also has heaps of hope for our future.

Gardening for all seasons
Inspirational gardeners

Gardening for all seasons

Linda Blencowe says gardening is an ever-unfolding adventure and an opportunity to hone her skills throughout each season.

The grounds of the Heide Museum of Modern Art include a healing garden.
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A garden for the senses

Jessamy Miller visits Heide Museum of Modern Art, with its rich cultural and plant history and many sensory and food gardens.

Landowners receive a weekly selection of fruit and vegies.
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Connecting through gardens

A social enterprise called Farm It Forward helps connect landowners with young people to grow food and community, writes Jacqueline Forster.

The garden at Charnwood consists of 45 individual plots.
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A growing community

This group of community gardens has been going for more than 50 years. Simon Webster asks what's their secret to success.

Jensen enjoys his time in the Wayside Chapel rooftop garden.
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Gardening above the fray

The Wayside Chapel rooftop garden is an oasis above the busy city, providing a quiet haven for those who need it, writes Leanne Croker.

Robin checking 'Beauregard' snow pea crop.
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Saving seeds for our future

Penny Woodward talks with Peter Carlyon and Robin Koster-Carlyon about how they changed their organic farm into a thriving seed-growing enterprise.

Jian Liu's Melbourne garden is a productive space, teeming with life and colour.
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Backyard gardening success in Melbourne

Learn how a concrete backyard in urban Melbourne was turned into a wonderful food forest, filled with fresh produce.

The Reconciliation Park Community Garden in Redfern.
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Growing a community garden

After five years of waiting and with high-rise developments closing in, residents living in Sydney’s inner-city suburb of Redfern are growing organic food in a local park the council has promised to make chemical-free. Malcolm McGuire writes.

Declan McGill and Melissa Charlick have 7.5 acres under production at Roly Poly Farm
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Farming for the future

There is a theme running through the work done by Declan McGill and Melissa Charlick at Roly Poly Farm: giving back – to their community and to the property that is now their livelihood.

Urban gardening
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Urban gardening

Clare and Keith have turned a basic apartment backyard into a vegie-filled urbgarden that supplies them with fresh produce throughout the year.

Life according to Kevin McCloud
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Life according to Kevin McCloud

Kylie McGregor talks with Kevin McCloud, environmentalist, writer and intriguing host of BAFTA award-winning Grand Designs, about community, buiilding homes and the future.