Horticulture

Declining rainfall and a 34 per cent drop in water flow results in increased management measures put in place around the major food-producing town Gingin north of Perth.

Australia has up to 250,000 species of fungus but only a fraction of them have been named and described. A group of citizen scientists is working to change that.

A rosy-skinned, red-fleshed apple named Kissabel is one of several new styles set to tempt fruit lovers back to eating an apple a day to revive the fruit's market share.

One of Australia's biggest mango growers, Manbulloo Limited, has planted its largest ever patch of new varieties in the Northern Territory.

A Queensland man was woken one night by a "ten out of ten pain". It was a fungal infection in his bone that led to his top jaw being surgically removed, and now he thinks it's coming back.

Shoppers wondering why capsicums, especially red ones, are so expensive can blame the weather at one end of the country and a single tiny fly at the other. 

Flowers, honey and plenty of produce: bees play a vital role in nature's ecosystem, and without them, we wouldn't have any of these things. 

The typical Australian lawn is under threat but, as Grand Designs Transformations host Anthony Burke argues, that's actually a good thing.

A growing number of citrus producers in Australia are being squeezed out of the industry, blaming rising production costs and low prices for their produce from supermarkets.

A University of the Sunshine Coast researcher working with the world's "largest arachnid venom collection" is aiming to invent a honey-bee-friendly bio-insecticide for farmers battling swarms of hungry locusts. 

Up to 90 per cent of flowers sold this Mother's Day will be imported as domestic production lags far behind demand.

Tasmania's colourful fungi are putting on a show only in the state's dampest corners after a dry summer and autumn. A fungi enthusiast shares some species to look for when the conditions are right.

Persistent rain has created some of the most impressive poinciana blooms in recent years, but it's also led to ideal breeding conditions for some caterpillars.

Now a well-worn stop for tourists at the top end of the Sunshine State, Ballantyne's Strawberry Farm is known for its early adoption of agritourism.

Jackfruit usually weigh between 5 and 15 kilograms, but a grower south of Cairns has just harvested this "impressive" 45-kilogram monster fruit.

One of Australia's largest wineries, Casella Family Brands, has installed almost 9,000 solar panels — enough to power more than 1,900 homes.

Water in Glen Mervyn Dam, 200km south of Perth, has dropped by 80 per cent in a year, prompting calls for growers to future-proof their orchards.

The hemp industry's 10-year vision to expand, study, and promote Australia's hemp production has attracted considerable funding but it has been unsuccessful in the latest round of the national Cooperative Research Centres grants.

West Australian wine growers from the Swan Valley to Denmark in the Great Southern have recorded one of their most dismal harvests in years following high summer temperatures.

A Guinness World Record-holding blueberry variety could break new ground for the fruit in Australia, according to its Mid North Coast grower. 

Bunnings' monopoly over the gardening sector has prompted calls for the retail giant to face the same scrutiny as Australia's two major supermarkets. 

Fresh produce growers scramble to meet "forecast" supply deals with supermarkets, but every year millions of dollars of surplus food goes to waste. So what's going on?

Toowoomba school students have smashed the record for Queensland's heaviest pumpkin at this year's Ekka giant pumpkin competition, kicking off the official countdown to one of the state's largest annual events.

Seeds from the iconic Sycamore Gap tree that was illegally felled in the UK last year are "springing into life" at a specialist conservation centre in an effort to give the tree new life.

A solitary specimen of Varroa jacobsoni, which is a different species to the pest plaguing New South Wales and Victoria, was found during a routine inspection of a sentinel hive in Brisbane.