The below channels and videos highlight the incredible opportunities for gardeners in Australia. Suitable for beginners to seasoned gardeners, they offer insights and inspiration for planning or transforming your green space into a bountiful and productive source of fresh produce.
New South Wales
(Gardening Australia Feature) A Terrific Terrace – A terraced townhouse in Sydney’s inner city, showcasing vegetable gardening, fruit trees, chickens and hydroponics in a small backyard.
Queensland
Self Sufficient Me – South East Queensland based, homesteading-style channel with a broad content focus from fruit and vegetable gardening to keeping poultry.
B2B Homesteading – Far North Queensland homesteading channel focused on self-sufficiency. Content on syntropic farming in a tropical climate.
(Gardening Australia Feature) Garden of Feedin’ – South East Queensland food garden built with the goal of maximising self-sufficiency. Featuring a variety of fruit trees, temperate, subtropical and tropical.
Victoria
Real Life Fruitopia – Melbourne based channel focused on growing subtropical and tropical fruits in a challenging temperate climate.
Bush Edge Homesteading Australia – Homesteading style channel based in the Dandenong Ranges east of Victoria.
(Gardening Australia Feature) A Footscray Find – An urban food forest in Melbourne’s inner west, with an eclectic collection of fruiting trees, shrubs and vines in the small garden.
(Gardening Australia Feature) Food Forest Feast – Established Yarra Valley Food Forest with over 300 edible plants in one acre.
(Gardening Australia Feature) Feed your belly and your soul – Suburban Melbourne Garden transformed into a highly productive garden with over 70 varieties of fruit, vegies, flowers, chickens and a worm farm.
(Gardening Australia Feature) The Pocket-Sized Patch – Producing an abundance of produce in a small suburban Melbourne Garden. Also deals with managing contaminated soils.
Western Australia
(Gardening Australia Feature) The Good Life – A large cottage style garden centred around self-sufficiency, created on a challenging site in the Perth hills.
Tasmania
Homesteading DownUnder – A homesteading focused channel based in Northern Tasmania with excellent advice ranging from fruit trees, vegetable gardening, preservation, cooking and other relevant topics.
The above channels and videos can provide guidance on plants suitable for cultivation in your local climates. Botanic Gardens can also provide an excellent demonstration. For further guidance, refer to the ‘Suitable and Preferred Climates’ page.
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