Books about birds
Greener living

Birds in your garden

Penny Woodward talks about attracting birds to your garden and two new books about birds.

The Reconciliation Park Community Garden in Redfern.
Inspirational gardeners

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.

Wild orange and vanilla lip balm by Harriet Birrell
Organic homes

Make your own: lip balm

Why not go waste and chemical-free by making your own home and personal care products from scratch. Here’s a recipe to get you started from Natural Harry, aka Harriet Birrell.

Southern Corroboree Frog
Organic homes

Frogs in your backyard

How to offer a home for a species that's under threat by building a frog pond in your backyard.

Here: Poems for the Planet
Greener living

Here: Poems for the Planet – a review

Here: Poems for the Planet is a call for hope and action on behalf of a planet in crisis.

Declan McGill and Melissa Charlick have 7.5 acres under production at Roly Poly Farm
Inspirational gardeners

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
Inspirational gardeners

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.

In time of crisis: grow food
Organic life

In time of crisis: grow food

Here at ABC Organic Gardener our aim is to provide trusted, practical advice that will support anyone wishing to garden in this crisis and beyond.

There’s a great range of organic produce available at Peninsula Fresh’s farmgate in Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula.
Organic life

Buy local to help organic farmers

One simple way to support rural communities is to purchase produce from the farmers who are doing it tough, writes Harriet Kendrick, Australian Organic.

White-lipped green tree frog.
Our planet

Organic solutions for a changing climate

There's a lot to cope with in the garden when the climate is so uncertain -- and it's not just the plants, we need to watch out for the locals as well. These ideas will help.

Life according to Kevin McCloud
Inspirational gardeners

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.

The dramatic decline in the bogong moth population has had a deleterious impact on the endangered pygmy possum.
Our planet

Where have all the insects gone?

There's new research revealing the alarming loss of insects all over the planet, what is causing it, which insects are most affected and what we can do.