Father-son team's hand-picked citrus blossoms brighten cocktails
Farmers and distillers collaborate to capture a delicate flower's flavour for the boutique drinks market.
Faith Tabalujan is a reporter with ABC Rural, based in regional Victoria. After studying history and French at uni, Faith stumbled into ag journalism and hasn't looked back since.
Farmers and distillers collaborate to capture a delicate flower's flavour for the boutique drinks market.
The Glenmaggie Weir was built 100 years ago to supply water to sugar beet farmers, and now keeps local dairy farms going.
Since 2019, locals from across south Gippsland have donned their best gumboots to compete in the annual 'Gumboot Gift', a 120-metre foot race through mud celebrating the region's dairy industry.
Victoria could have its own Sydney rock oyster industry after a trial in the state's east yielded positive results.
The most crucial rule of South Gippsland's annual Gumboot Gift running race is "authentic" gumboots only, no fancy slimline or ankle-height boots are allowed.
The devastating varroa mite has been detected in Gippsland bee hives.
Tiffany Maestrale, 17, combines competitive cheerleading with a love of sheep judging.
Victorian government regulations limit the sharing of generated power between properties, even if they have the same owner. Farmers are calling for changes so they can capitalise on their own microgrids.
Wendy Pope and Esme Rash, both in their 90s, have remained firm friends for more than four decades.
Topic:Feel Good
In Victoria's Prom Coast region, farmers say the closure of their local weather station has left their community without critical data.
A couple who started experimenting with bioferts five years ago say while it takes time to produce, the results and savings have been worthwhile.
For Tony Osborne, fixing fences is far from a chore.
Since the Regent Honeyeater Project kicked off in the 1990s, tens of thousands of volunteers have helped to regenerate farmland in order to help save the critically endangered species.
Topic:Solutions
Chiltern cherry growers Bill and Lois Hotson say customers are already placing end-of-year orders for the fruit, which is normally harvested from Melbourne Cup Day through to Christmas, and this season looks like a bumper crop.
City slickers have been travelling to the country in droves - not for a tree change, but to help their country cousins recover from natural disasters.
When Tony Osborn retired from the military, an unexpected conversation prompted him to start travelling Australia helping farmers recover from natural disasters.
Topic:Feel Good
School students are thinking seriously about a career in agriculture after spending the past six months working to get their sheep into tip-top shape.
Doug McGregor and Rachel Hogan have been transforming everything from felled trees to old church pews into handmade homewares in their workshop nestled in the Warby Ranges of north-east Victoria.
Topic:Solutions
Whether they're green, red, orange or yellow, capsicums are a firm favourite in Aussie households, but fluctuating prices are hurting growers and consumers.
A group of young Indigenous people living in the remote Northern Territory community of Wadeye has travelled to Beechworth in Victoria to learn important knife and life skills.
While elderberry can be found in everything from cordial to cosmetics around the globe, in Australia its health benefits and potential are only just beginning to be realised.
One of Australia’s largest food processors says it has reacted to shoppers buying cheaper imported food amid the cost-of-living crisis.
Australian rice growers have mixed views about the biggest shake-up of the industry in 100 years, but change is on the way.
Megg Miller OAM knows a good chicken and a good egg.
David Pendleton makes and sells blankets, bags and pillows from recycled wool, but he has to source the fabric from India. He and others say it's time that changed.