A repudiation uniformity and embrace of community, former director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Tim Entwisle shows us the possibility for the nature strip beyond alienation and agapanthus.

Andy Mason, bush regenerator, gardener, community activist, geographer, argues in favour of the re-invention of the suburban backyard as a site of sustainable production and ecological regeneration as well as a space for community building.

This week, Besha Rodell, Chief Restaurant Critic, The Age/Good Food, lover of all things vintage, describes her particular obsession with vintage glassware.

This week, Elizabeth David directs her invective against soup, Annie Smithers mounts a soup-positive defence, and we settle for Gratin Dauphinois, because cream smothered potatoes is something everyone can get behind.

Re-inventing the suburban backyard with regeneration and community in mind; re-designing the nature strip; Elizabeth David's Gratin Dauphinois and Besha Rodell's love of vintage glassware.

Dr Soon-Tzu Speechley, lecturer in Urban and Cultural Heritage at the University of Melbourne, talks about a brick he dug up in his garden and what it reveals about the history and evolution of architectural style, the expansion of brickworks in 19th-century Melbourne, and our increasingly disposable attitudes towards buildings.

Tim Entwisle, former director of Royal Botanic Gardens takes Jonathan for an annual tour of the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, this year with an emphasis on native plants, diversity and sustainability.

If you are dressed head to toe in black, polyester, nylon or some combination thereof, you may need a dress doctor. Stat. 

If you are dressed head to toe in black, polyester, nylon or some combination thereof, you may need a dress doctor. Linda Przybyszewski - Dress maker, historian and author of The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish - discusses the history of the dress doctors who helped women design, make and choose clothing for the workplace and home. She explains the design principles that guided the Dress doctors and their legacy in contemporary fashion and design.

Raw meat, egg slonking, seed oil panic and the war on “soy globalism” -  welcome to the dizzying dietary fixations of the alt right.