Market gardeners on the northern Adelaide plains are being trained in sustainable farming practices to try to curb salinity problems. The Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Board says soils are degrading after a long history of mismanagement. Antho...

Forty per cent of North Americans reportedly do not have their own yard space; those who do, meanwhile, often leave it underused. Aiming to match the haves with the have-nots anywhere there's a similar inequity, Sharing Backyards partners with local community organisations to ...

If Fortnum's can keep bees on its roof and sell the hyperlocal honey they produce, it stands to reason that other purveyors of food should be able to make the most of their rooftops in a similar way. Enter London grocer Thornton's Budgens, which just began selling organic prod...

Warren and Ewa (pronounced Eva) Jones pioneered much of the early South Australian plantings of native bush foods in 1995 when they joined the push to develop a uniquely Australian cuisine for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Fifteen years on, Tumbeela Native Bushfoods grows, harvest...

By Drew Cratchley of AAP Lower grains prices and a strong Australian dollar have dampened rural confidence levels which had been boosted by good rainfalls, research shows. The latest Rabobank Rural Confidence Survey, conducted in May, showed 29 per cent of farmers surveyed ...

South Australia's Spencer Gulf prawn fishery will undergo rigorous environmental assessment in the hope of becoming the first Marine Stewardship Council's (MSC) certified prawn fishery in Australia. The Spencer Gulf fishery has the world's largest known population of western k...

The Queensland Farmers Federation is staging a significant policy forum in Brisbane later this month to thrash out policies and strategies for the future of the agriculture sector. The forum will examine ways in which agriculture can provide solutions to the looming challenges...

Sydney's Balgowlah Heights Public School is the latest to embrace environmental sustainability by establishing an Eco Garden. The Mayor of Manly, Councillor Jean Hay, will officially open the garden on Tuesday, June 8. Pupils from kindergarten through to year 6 will have th...

The 24th annual Manly Food, Wine & Sustainability Festival will be underway this weekend, June 5 and 6. The daytime event will feature stalls operated by 35 top names in food and wine dotted along Manly’s ocean beachfront and along The Corso (Manly’s main street). The J...

Sustainability isn’t just a catch-phase or a passing trend - it’s a valid, all-encompassing business strategy that ensures your store’s survival, writes Dora Nikols* To be or not to be? The famous question immortalised by Shakespeare's ‘Hamlet’, the all engulfing question which ...

The Honest to Goodness family-owned and operated business in Sydney is raising awareness of organics by opening a showroom two days a week to the public in Artarmon, on the lower north shore. The 70sqm showroom opened its doors about three weeks ago and is carrying a range of 60...

OnFood couldn’t believe its luck when it stumbled upon a pair of fanatical apiarists living at, of all places, Bees Creek in the Northern Territory. Bees Creek co-owner Julie Shugg came to the Top End 20 years ago from Melbourne. She planned to stay one year but met and fell i...

Factoring in the price of carbon, water availability and the expected rapid growth in demand from Asia for food and fibre will be all in a day's work for Australian farmers in the not-too-distant future. Equipping young farmers with the know-how to effectively manage macro agr...