Matcha's vibrant colour and health benefits have made it a new fad food, fuelling a surge in demand that is outpacing supply.
Eyewatering supermarket grape prices expected to drop dramatically as local season approaches
If you have baulked at the price of table grapes at the supermarket lately the good news is they could drop by up to $10/kg when the Australian season brings locally-grown produce to the shelves.
Photo shows Green and red table grapes from the United States, $19.99 and $21.99 per kilo.95-year-old keeps garden dream alive as flower festival gets underway after beloved wife's passing
Les Stephson is not letting his age get in the way of maintaining his "pride and joy" — his garden, where he goes to remember his wife who died a year ago.
Photo shows A man leans down and works on a garden bedThese off-duty policemen's pet dogs sniff out a product worth $2,500 a kilo and it's not drugs
When police canine handlers Dean Poletta and Warren Rogers decided to set up a truffle dog business as a side hustle the industry was little more than a hobby in South Australia. But demand is booming.
Photo shows A dog in the back of a car with its head out the windowThe cheapest, easiest ways to deal with weeds
Weeds have been the bane of green thumbs' existence for as long as they've been tending to gardens. But managing them needn't be an expensive or laborious undertaking.
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Photo shows A person wearing a gardening glove rips a grassy weed out of a gardenAuthorities in race against time to stop tiny pest destroying tree canopy before spring ‘explosive phase' begins
Chainsaws are being taken to trees across Perth to stop the spread of shot-hole borer, but scientists say more research is needed to determine if there is a better way to eradicate the pest before beetle activity ramps up come spring.
Photo shows Arborists search for signs of the shot-hole borer beetle in Perth's Hyde ParkGold ring found in cabbage could be from 'anywhere in the world'
A gold ring found in a cabbage plant by a West Australian farmer has been traced back to the Netherlands, but its true owner and origin remain a mystery.
Photo shows An intricately carved gold ring on a person's finger.New NT water plan reduces available extraction by 50 per cent
A new water plan for the Western Davenport, quietly released by the NT government, has reduced groundwater available for extraction and also cut allocations for Aboriginal economic development.
Photo shows an aerial shot of a centre-pivot growing green grass surrounded by red soil.Farmers finding dying native vegetation after dry autumn
South Australian mid-north farmer Andrew Smith checks some of the dying native vegetation on his property, which has received very little rainfall in the past 12 months.
Has Video Duration: 16 seconds.Bunnings under fire for selling plants that become 'a ticking time bomb'
Major Australian nurseries, including retail giant Bunnings, are selling plants listed by governments and their own industry body as invasive weeds.
Photo shows A packet of flower seeds held in a hand outside a Bunnings hardware store.Some people think they're gross, but these little flies could be the key to crop security in Australia
As a parasite threatens Australia's bee population, flower flies could provide the nation with the support it needs.
Photo shows a fly on a flowerWater supply concerns on the rise in key food-growing region north of Perth
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.
Photo shows Corn plantsAustralia's fungi fanatics are filling in the gaps left by scientists
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.
Photo shows Red mushrooms with umbrella-like topsFrom red flesh to star-like spots, apples sold in Australia are about to look different
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.
Photo shows A sliced apple showing its orange flesh and a bright red appleMango grower's biggest planting of new varieties Yess! AhHa! and Now! in the NT
One of Australia's biggest mango growers, Manbulloo Limited, has planted its largest ever patch of new varieties in the Northern Territory.
Photo shows Mangoes in traysA fungal spore found 'everywhere in the environment' led to Paul Minuzzo losing his top jaw
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.
Photo shows Paul Minuzzo wears a button-up shirt.Supply down, costs soar for fruit and veggies as growers battle fruit fly measures
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.
Photo shows A pile of capsicums on sale in a box at a grocery store for $12.90 per kilogram.How to spot a native bee and what to do to help bolster populations. Here's what you need to know
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.
Photo shows A large bee with black and blue stripes.Lawns, real or fake, need to go. This is why
The typical Australian lawn is under threat but, as Grand Designs Transformations host Anthony Burke argues, that's actually a good thing.
Photo shows A low shot of a front lawn with the grass in focus and the house in the background out of focus'More money in budgie food': Citrus grower says he has no choice but to rip his trees out and he's not alone
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.
Photo shows A man sits on a motorbike near citrus treesSpider venom to be tested in the fight against plague locusts
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.
Photo shows Coremiocnemis tropix in the laboratory