Annie Brown

Darwin's once numerous flower farmers have shrunk from 40 in the 1980s to five, with those left inching closer to retirement. 

How has fire management changed since that fateful summer four years ago, when bushfires wiped out a third of the softwood forestry plantation in the Snowy Mountains?

Miniature donkeys Pedro and Diego are the two latest additions to Jean Arnold’s home in Cobram, Victoria. With the support of a few dedicated volunteers, Ms Arnold is training her four-legged amigos to be therapy animals in local aged care homes.

A meeting at a Melbourne restaurant 10 years ago has helped open revenue streams for a north-east Victorian cherry grower as he diversifies to lessen the blow of consecutive rough seasons.

First Nations water groups have welcomed changes to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan which will formally acknowledge their connection to water and aim to increase Indigenous ownership.

The EPA successfully prosecutes a lone company director for failing to clear a massive collection of old tyres it says is a fire risk with potential toxic smoke and air traffic impeded at nearby Albury airport.

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.

Eight farmers in the Benalla region are growing gum trees for biotech company Gretals as it researches using pinocembrin as a treatment for neurodegenerative diseases.

Seed banks say they need more government funding to plant native orchards to ever hope to reach regeneration targets.

Residents of a small Victorian country town say the intersection where two couples lost their lives is dangerous at the best of times and can be even more so for people not familiar with the area.