Lyn Bayfield's community came to the rescue when a wholesaler refused more than 100 fresh-cut bunches from her farm, a practice an industry body says is common in the "cutthroat" business.
New giant Australian avocado variety a guacamole lover's dream
A plant bearing a supersized new avocado variety is tipped to be a sell-out, ahead of its first release to retail nurseries and home gardeners.
Photo shows A big and a small avocado sliced open next to each other.The ugly truth behind the cheap flowers we buy at the supermarket checkout
A bouquet of flowers is the go-to gift for many special occasions but the world is paying a high price for transporting our out-of-season blooms.
Photo shows Pink roses.Flower farmer's final harvest reveals the challenges of a shrinking industry
Up to 90 per cent of flowers sold this Mother's Day will be imported as domestic production lags far behind demand.
Photo shows A woman holds a bunch of freshly cut flowers while others cut more in the backgroundTourist crops providing selfie solution for famed Queensland sunflower fields
Specially grown sunflower crops are springing up around Southern Queensland to help meet demand from crowds of visitors keen for a photo.
Photo shows A woman with blong hair, a green dress and love heart sunglasses stands in a field of big yellow sunflowers.'I want to grow over one trillion sunflowers': Young farmer aims high with new roadside venture
Charlie Smith spent his school holidays growing sunflowers with his dad on their Manjimup farm in WA's South West and has big aspirations for his little business.
Photo shows Charlie Smith smiling in his sunflower crop.It's a job with overseas travel and regular pay, so why are there so few cut flower growers in the Top End?
Darwin's once numerous flower farmers have shrunk from 40 in the 1980s to five, with those left inching closer to retirement.
Photo shows A woman holds a bunch of pink flowersThe impact of Christmas lights on nocturnal wildlife
Nocturnal mammals, birds and reptiles can be impacted by bright Christmas decorations. Here are some ways to minimise harm.
Has Video Duration: 5 minutes 55 seconds.Capers look effortless and appetising on a plate — but harvesting them is a brutal labour of love
Australian-grown capers are a sought-after ingredient for high-end restaurants, selling for up to $50 per 250 grams. And with each tiny bud picked by hand, it's not hard to see why.
Photo shows Close up of green capers covered with saltAmong the grain crops of northern NSW, there's a boom of farming mums planting fields of flowers
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.
Photo shows A woman in a hat stands in a paddock holding a bunch of purple and blue flowers.Together the Thomsons were a team. Now Jimmy is keeping his and his wife's floral bouquet tradition alive
When Jimmy Thomson's wife Roslyn died last year, he was distraught. Her love of native flowers was something he couldn't shake, so he continued her weekly tradition of making and donating native floral bouquets.
Photo shows Jimmy Thomson surrounded by flowers and foliage in his garden.Couple begins new life in rural Queensland starting a flower farm
A couple has abandoned high pressure jobs in Melbourne to move to a bush block in Queensland starting an organic flower farm.
Has Video Duration: 1 minute 40 seconds.How these city slickers became flower farmers
Former Melbourne couple Jennifer Nini and Ben McGuire swapped their innercity abode for life on a flower farm in country Queensland.
Has Video Duration: 1 minute 47 seconds.Leaving city crowds behind, this couple has found contentment by flower farming in country Queensland
After swapping their demanding jobs and cosmopolitan life in inner Melbourne for a bush block in Queensland, Jennifer Nini and Ben McGuire haven't looked back.
Photo shows Having a cup of coffee with their dog on the verandah.In a horrible drought, Allie turned to flower growing and now her blooms sell out within the hour
Planting flowers in the middle of a drought doesn't seem like the obvious choice to diversify but this family has said goodbye to sheep and hello to hundreds of Geraldton wax plants.
Photo shows A woman stands at a table outside surrounded by buckets of pink and white Geraldton Wax flowers.Queensland beehives allowed across the border from NSW amid varroa mite concerns
Queensland beekeepers are cleared to bring their hives back home but face 12 months of increased surveillance to ensure their bees are varroa mite free.
Photo shows A varroa mite on a honey beeDeadly varroa mite found in more beehives near Vic-NSW border
The varroa mite is detected in beehives in another almond orchard at Balranald in southern New South Wales, taking the current outbreak in the Sunraysia and Riverina regions to four properties.
Photo shows bees in a bee hiveTropical flower supply looking tight as rain dampens the north's dry season
Lovers of Australian-grown tropical flowers could have trouble finding them as an usually rainy dry season has put Queensland growers two months behind schedule.
Photo shows A close up of a yellow beehive-like flower which is being squeezed by a hand, with clear juice coming out of it.Meet an Australian helping Afghan farmers find an alternative to opium poppies
With the Taliban banning poppy production, this agriculture consultant from Darwin helps farmers in Afghanistan find viable and legal alternative crops.
Photo shows Men walking through farm in AfghanistanCheap imports 'decimated' Australia's flower industry. Could micro farms save it?
Twenty years after cheap flower imports flooded the Australian market, the focus is back on locally grown blooms as shoppers "push towards sustainability".
Photo shows Bright, colourful flowers bloom under a dome net in a row, a small child is bent over looking in a bucket next to the rowIt takes a machine to dig up 35,000 roses. But when the ground is soggy, it's all down to the farmhands
Farmhands are digging up tens of thousands of rose plants by hand at a South Australian nursery after heavy rain has made it impossible for a machine to do the job.
Photo shows Two men with shoves digging up plants near a tractor