Rebuilding after the Victorian bushfires has been a remarkable journey for the Buxton Trout and Salmon Farm.

Burning bulls, generous hospitality and a good measure of creative and utter chaos are all grist to the mill for sculptor Russell Sheridan.

Diana McInnes’s many lives as a stylist, graphic designer, ski instructor and avid collector inform her high country hideaway.

Droughts and flooding rains, flies, mosquitoes and snakes are the everyday reality of life on the farm in Central-Western Queensland.

The Royal Agricultural Society Foundation (RASF) Rural Scholarship Awards celebration was held at the Sydney Showgrounds.

What do horticultural shows, Japanese tour buses and international acclaim in oshibana have in common? Just ask native flower collector Dorothy Kelly.

Christobel and Tom Comerford have sprinkled stardust over a backyard and nature strip in central Victoria to the delight of the neighbourhood.

Life’s moveable feast has taken food writer and stylist Katy Holder on a fascinating journey around the world.

Kirsty McKenzie’s letter from the October 2015 issue of Australian Country magazine.

Amazing designs and performances were features of the Sheepvention Fashion Parade, one of the highlights of the annual sheep show held at Hamilton in Victoria’s Southern Grampians.

This issue we visit historic Mackerode station and an extraordinary garden created by paraplegic Dennis Roberts in South Australia, we head north in Queensland to the Atherton Tableland and a wildlife sanctuary and B&B devised by German-born Margit Cianelli and we celebrate the delights of bananas. Click to find out more.

An expatriate Australian has built an extraordinary showpiece, a tropical Vanuatu garden on the outskirts of the capital city.

Neil Mackenzie had spent the best part of two decades in the UK as a chef, showcasing the Manning region’s finest