This year, plant two feet firmly on the ground. In this Blueprint For Living summer edition, we're revisiting our favourite conversations charting gardens, farms and forests. 

Bruce Pascoe's farm

Jonathan makes the trip to Mallacoota in far-eastern Victoria, land of the Gunai Kurnai people, to visit writer, historian, and Dark Emu author Bruce Pascoe. During a wander around the farm, they discuss native crops and grasses, food sustainability and farming and ducks.

Tim Entwisle's Evergreen — The Botanical Life of a Plant Punk

Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Tim Entwisle, has put his life among the plants and gardens into a book. The result is Evergreen: The Botanical Life of a Plant Punk.

Paul Bangay's Garden Rudimental — Lawns

Lawns are completely changing. The mown lawn down to a millimetre, and a big monoculture is largely disappearing from our plots and gardens. Award-winning landscape designer Paul Bangay offers Jonathan lawn substitutes: from gravel to plants and garden beds.

Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: Thorncrown Chapel

Forests are places of otherness. Which is why they've long been used for human rituals of all kinds. Like the weddings that take place in Thorncrown Chapel, a magical structure nestled among the trees of the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas.