Tino Carnevale visits a colourful iris garden, Jane Edmanson profiles attractive edibles, Costa Georgiadis visits a revamped native swamp, Millie Ross meets inspiring women connecting community by growing native foods.
Gardening Australia is an Australian lifestyle television program which suggests and promotes organic and environmentally friendly ways of gardening. It is created by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and airs on ABC TV
Episode 3...
Paul has learnt how to be a dairy farmer the hard way but now It’s time for Paul to make another tough lesson. How will he cope saying goodbye to another farm favourite? Meanwhile, Paul plans to increase the livestock continue and he becomes a mother hen to fifty baby birds.
Paul visits a friend to help butcher and learn the different cuts of meat and gets hands on building a new shelter for his chickens. Meanwhile, Paul needs to find ways to earn an income so goes to the farmers market for the first time. Will the punters go for his homegrown grub?
Episode 1 - Emmaville, NSW
Emmaville could be the lost birth place of bush poet and composer Banjo Paterson. With the cottage precariously situated and under threat from developers, the local community of Orange in NSW must act quickly to save it.
The Repair Shop - Series 7 - Episode 40
Enter a workshop filled with expert craftspeople, bringing loved pieces of family history and the memories they hold back to life. A heartwarming antidote to throwaway culture.
Musical instrument restorer Pete Woods is pleased to meet Chris Bassett from Hertfordshire. Chris has brought in his very first musical instrument, which is desperate for some specialist attention. A gift from his parents to help him recuperate after a childhood accident, this cornet made a huge impact on his life and shaped his future. It sparked a love for music, performing and inspiring others. The silver-plated cornet is dented, tarnished and seized up. It has not been played for over 50 years, but Pete feels sure he can nurse it back to full voice again and grant Chris’s wish to play it in memory of his wonderful parents.
Next into the barn are Simon and Elaine Johnston, with a memento from Simon’s childhood that sparks a multitude of lovely memories. Expert Steve Fletcher remembers a similar item from his own childhood and gets to work reconditioning the rusted paraffin lamp. Simon and his siblings grew up playing cards with their parents by the light of this lamp and feels those moments taught him of the importance of family time. He would love his own children to share that experience and hear its familiar hiss as it burns bright.
Finally, music box restorer Steve Kember and silversmith Brenton West greet Lynnie McGirr and are charmed by her elaborate silver music box, with a tiny feather bird that should pop up and sing along. It was left to her by a dear friend and neighbour named Charles. The music box transfixed Lynnie and her then-young children from the moment they saw it. Knowing that, Charles kindly left it to them in his will. However, after an unfortunate accident many years ago, the musical mechanism no longer works, the box has lost its lustre and the little bird refuses to perform. Lynnie would love her new granddaughter to be mesmerised, just as she was, so Steve and Brenton come to her aid.
Ep 5 - The First Annual, Semi-inaugural Eden 2 Charlie's mother arrives at Eden 2 to reconnect with her, and a secret mission to take on Monty's claim to the land
31 - Psirens...
Two hundred years after investigating the SSS Esperanto, the crew awake from suspended animation aboard Starbug with amnesia, and find that their mothership Red Dwarf is missing. Chasing a faint vapour trail which may lead to their mothership, the crew travel through an asteroid field containing lost and crashed spaceships. The asteroid field is inhabited by "psirens", genetically engineered creatures that telepathically lure the ship's crew onto the asteroids so that they can suck out their brains.
Footy is back for in Australia for season 2023 and the opening game of the season is between traditional rivals, the Richmond Tigers and the Carlton Blues. No one predicted the result from this game….
A great game with plenty of action...
23 - Somewhere on Earth - Bolivia
We can dream of adventure on other planets that we may be able to colonize some day in the distant future... but for our children, Travel means our own planet Earth. Exploring different regions step by step, making encounters hand in hand... Discovering our Earth is a multi-faceted adventure... with no frontiers or limits except those of Man.
Somewhere on Earth spotlights places the world over where Nature has given free rein to its imagination and has taken the time to create breathtaking landscapes. These spots are often far removed from the great currents of the modern world and this isolation has long kept them sheltered them from the aggressions of human activity.
Episode 24 – Natural Pest Control Don’t be so eager to reach for the pesticide spray at the first sight of a bug in your garden. Why? In reality only about 3% of the insect population actually does any kind of harm to our plants. That leaves 97% percent that are actually good bugs or just neutral. Joe gets a first-hand look at how the horticultural community is embracing biological controls.
Suzanne Wainwright-Evans blends her degrees in environmental horticulture and entomology, into a unique skill as an “ornamental entomologist” specializing in Integrated Pest Management establishing that there is a safer way to treat pest problems. Her company, Bug Lady Consulting, specializes in controlling pests within the green industry; specifically greenhouses and nurseries.