Sustainable and Alternative Farming

Lachlan Hughes was 36 and expecting his third child when he suddenly died in 2018. His loved ones were devastated, but they found a way to ensure his passion for regenerative farming would never be forgotten.

Shaun Jackson grows niche varieties of melons and, just as Australians are cutting back on fruit, an expanding Japanese market can't get enough of them.

While you might recognise algae growing in your fish tank or floating on a lake, it can be transformed into a human food source that can also power your car, and it doesn't compete for space with crops.

As the government calls for input on a plan to help the agriculture and land sectors cut emissions, farmers say they're keen to adapt — but not at the expense of food production.

A plan to build a centre focused on the development of circular economies has been announced for Bega, New South Wales.

Winning one of five of the Earth shot prizes, an Indian solar powered dehydrator device is helping some of India's poorest rural farmers reduce food waste.

Hand-weeding and mechanical cultivation fell out of favour in the 1940s. But high-tech robots rolling out across Australian farms are reviving these tactics from the past.

Vitasoy Australia chief executive David Tyack predicts the plant-based milk market will continue to grow, noting there hasn't been a contraction in the past decade.

The first-generation farmers made an ambitious 100-year plan to repair land stripped of vegetation with tree plantings and chemical-free regenerative practices.

Restoration work on a severely eroded Queensland river is stopping tens of thousands of tonnes of sediment from smothering the Great Barrier Reef.

Soil ecologist Frank Ashwood starting taking macro photographs of the life in UK soil as a COVID project. He has since come to Australia to see what is here. 

A group of former soldiers are helping other veterans find new purpose after their defence service — through working on the land. 

Tamworth mum Shona Robilliard started with a few seeds in her veggie patch, but in search of a better work-life balance she's ditched the vegetables and is now a fully fledged cut-flower farmer.

Central west NSW farmer Rodney Guest is "over the moon" malleefowl incubated and hatched in captivity are thriving in the wild as part of efforts to ensure the survival of the species.

A United Nations report warns the world is "perilously close" to triggering tipping points that could have "irreversible, catastrophic impacts for people and the planet" — but it's not too late to act.

Farmers have gathered in a dusty paddock in northern New South Wales to share how they have improved their readiness for life without regular rain.

Australia's fertiliser industry looks to new technologies and cleaner farming practices to cut its carbon footprint without jeopardising the country's $90 billion agriculture sector.

To access key markets now, farmers have to prove they are reducing emissions, protecting biodiversity and saving energy and water, but finding the tech to report on all that has been difficult, until now.

After watching her farm narrowly survive the inferno of Black Summer and welcoming a grandson into the world, Rachel Ward knew it was time to try to do things differently.

Researchers in regional NSW say cattle that ate the additive had methane emission reductions of up to 99 per cent.

Melbourne restaurants are already crossing items off the menu as Victorian producers struggle to process their animals.

A major NSW cotton operation says it is producing the world's first verified, carbon-positive cotton, for which global companies with sustainable sourcing targets are paying up to $80 more for a bale.

Vegetable farmer from flood-affected town of Newry, Victoria says all the crops have been destroyed as 30 per cent of his farm has gone under water.

Farmers in Western Australia are turning salty wastelands into pillows of gourmet greens — and they're now in high demand in Australia's best restaurants. 

Farmers in Western Australia begin breeding their own stocks of the bugs, which are proving hugely beneficial to farm and animal health.