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About Dan Bourchier
Dan Bourchier is a multi-award-winning multi-platform broadcaster with the ABC, accomplished company director on commercial, and in-demand public speaker and event MC and facilitator.

Dan anchors ABC Canberra’s flagship 7pm news, and as well as being a member of the University of Canberra Council, Dan has extensive experience in governance, leadership, strategy and strategic communications, and Indigenous affairs.

Dan grew up in the remote Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek, where he was mentored by elders from around the region, while coming to understand his own Indigenous heritage from his mum’s side of the family in coastal and inland parts of Victoria.

He was driven to news and reporting from an early age, and began a traineeship at the Tennant and District Times as a teenager still at school. Dan has worked as a radio broadcaster, newspaper reporter, video journalist, foreign correspondent, political reporter, and social commentator.

As a broadcaster, Dan is driven by giving voice to the voiceless, holding to account those in positions of power, and telling really great stories - while his work as a company director is underpinned by cultural and ethical governance.

Dan anchors ABC Canberra’s flagship 7pm news, and as well as being a member of the University of Canberra Council, Dan has extensive experience in governance, leadership, strategy and strategic communications, and Indigenous affairs.

Dan grew up in the remote Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek, where he was mentored by elders from around the region, while coming to understand his own Indigenous heritage from his mum’s side of the family in coastal and inland parts of Victoria.

He was driven to news and reporting from an early age, and began a traineeship at the Tennant and District Times as a teenager still at school. Dan has worked as a radio broadcaster, newspaper reporter, video journalist, foreign correspondent, political reporter, and social commentator.

As a broadcaster, Dan is driven by giving voice to the voiceless, holding to account those in positions of power, and telling really great stories - while his work as a company director is underpinned by cultural and ethical governance.

In the past 20 years, Phil has contributed to many of Australia’s leading gardening magazines, written three books for ABC Books and worked as a TV Presenter on channel nine’s Garden Guru’s. He is currently the Horticultural Editor of ABC’s Gardening Australia magazine and host of ABC Radio’s Good Gardening program.

He hosts monthly Grow Your Food workshops in his backyard patch, in Lismore, Northern NSW, giving participants the opportunity to spend time in a thriving and productive suburban garden and learn from the simple and effective methods Phil has developed in over 25 years of growing his own food.

Host - Ashley Feraude
Ashley Feraude is creative consultant, music producer, interior design series author and podcast host.

Under his creative consultancy Sound Technique, he provides award-winning services ranging from design, content development, event music direction and artist scheduling. He also authors an interior design editorial series called Home Stories on HerCanebrra and hosts the Behind the Bio podcast series.

As the equally award-winning music artist Magnifik, he produces original music filled with electronic soul and performs melodic disco DJ sets at numerous nightspots, events and festivals.

So, is he suffering from split personality disorder and has an obsession over pointy awards? Not really … all these ventures are united by a common passion for creative communications. Plus, he likes being really busy.

Adrienne began her career with ABC Local Radio where she worked across outback northern Australia. She worked as a specialist rural journalist based out of Katherine and Kununurra, before becoming presenter of the Northern Territory Country Hour in Darwin.

She has reported for national television current affairs programs, including Landline and Australia Wide. She has also worked as a reporter for ABC Radio’s national current affairs unit, for the programs ‘AM’, The World Today, ‘PM’, and ‘Saturday AM’.

Adrienne spent her early years between Sydney and Jindabyne in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales. She originally studied agricultural science at the University of Sydney before pursuing a media career.

ABC Radio Canberra Breakfast host Lish Fejer is joined by Alex Elliott-Howery and Jaimee Edwards discussing their book, Use It All: The Cornersmith Guide to a More Sustainable Kitchen.

This practical handbook is an invitation to reduce food waste while eating generously. It’s a book for people juggling real life and trying to make better choices in their kitchens.

For years Alex Elliott-Howery and Jaimee Edwards, from boundary-breaking food community Cornersmith, experimented in their home kitchens to figure out how to feed their families efficiently, affordably and sustainably. The result is this invaluable guide to modern food wisdom.

Use It All offers a simple, delicious way to cook and eat by buying less, wasting less and making more with what you’ve got.

Guest - Jaimee Edwards
Jaimee Edwards is the workshop co-ordinator and teacher at Cornersmith Cooking School. She shares her passion for home cooking and fermenting in workshops that teach students how to ferment, brew their own kombucha, make dumplings, herbal teas, Christmas puddings and much more. Jaimee is committed to improving what people know about the food they cook, eat and throw away. Jaimee is interested in food history and politics and believes that knowing an ingredient’s story makes it even more pleasurable to cook and enjoy.

Guest - Alex Elliott-Howery
Alex Elliott-Howery is the co-founder of what has become a thriving and boundary-breaking food community in inner Sydney. She runs the Cornersmith cafes, renowned for their big hearts and strong conscience when it comes to sustainably sourced food. Alex teaches pickling and preserving workshops at the Cornersmith cooking school, the Picklery. She is the co-author of two cookbooks, Cornersmith Recipes from the Café and Picklery and the recent release Salads & Pickles.

Host - Lish Fejer
Lish Fejer grew up on large stations in the bush before studying Biochemistry at ANU.

After graduating she ventured off on her bike to cook in Europe.

After a few years of eating her wages in cheese, she squeezed back into Australia to work at Questacon.

She has worked in the field of science communication as a presenter, speaker, writer and exhibition developer ever since.

Lish was co-host of ABC TV’s eco-home-reno show Carbon Cops.

She joined the ABC Radio Canberra team in 2010 and she loved working on the wireless so much, she didn’t want to leave.

Lish rides a bike, does science experiments at parties (she met her husband when she fired a scone out of a potato cannon), has over 15,000 worms and loves Canberra.

Join us in this Floriade Life Podcast, hosted by ABC Radio Canberra Saturday Breakfast host Adrienne Francis and listen to AB Bishop as she share her tips and advice on native gardens, habitats and water saving practices. This session will inspire you to design, plant and maintain your backyard as a native fauna-friendly habitat for all to enjoy.

Guest - AB Bishop
AB Bishop is a horticulturist, conservationist, writer and habitat consultant. She coauthored The Australian Native Garden with Angus Stewart, which won the 2016-17 Horticultural Media Association of Australia book award. She assisted Angus with writing Creating an Australian Garden and was a researcher for ABC TV’s Gardening Australia program for five years. She is a regular freelance writer for The Age newspaper and Gardening Australia magazine, and is a regular guest presenter (and occasional host) on Melbourne’s 3CR Community Radio Gardening Program.

AB has given numerous talks to libraries, open gardens and plant groups, including the Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne and Victoria, selling her book at each event. She was a guest speaker at the 2017 Bendigo Writers’ Festival.

AB lives in an environmental living zone in Victoria (her garden is featured in The Australian Native Garden) where native fauna and flora is protected. She has a strong passion for Australian plants and believes that gardens should be built as much for supporting wildlife as for our own enjoyment. She works part-time at Kuranga Native Nursery, where she’s in her element surrounded by thousands of plants and like-minded peers.

Host - Adrienne Francis
Adrienne Francis has worked as a radio, television and digital journalist and presenter for ABC Canberra since 2010. During her more than 17 year career with the ABC she has primarily worked in TV and Radio News. She has presented the ABC’s flagship TV and Radio News bulletins in the ACT and Northern Territory and she also worked as a television current affairs reporter for 7.30 ACT, which was one of Canberra’s most popular TV programs.

Adrienne began her career with ABC Local Radio where she worked across outback northern Australia. She worked as a specialist rural journalist based out of Katherine and Kununurra, before becoming presenter of the Northern Territory Country Hour in Darwin.

She has reported for national television current affairs programs, including Landline and Australia Wide. She has also worked as a reporter for ABC Radio’s national current affairs unit, for the programs ‘AM’, The World Today, ‘PM’, and ‘Saturday AM’.

Adrienne spent her early years between Sydney and Jindabyne in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales. She originally studied agricultural science at the University of Sydney before pursuing a media career.

For the foodies looking to turn their hand at gardening, this podcast will inspire you with blooming edible ideas on planning and growing your own edible flower garden.  For green-thumbs with a meal in mind, you’ll want to go out and grow a blossoming bed, just for eating. 

Guest - Linda Brennan
Linda Brennan is horticulturist specialising in organic gardens, environmental educator and passionate greenthumb goddess. She’s a prominent horticultural figure, devoted to health and vitality through nurturing life, people and the environment. She is an inspiration for adults and children who want to grow bountiful gardens, edible flowers and organic food in abundance.

Her childhood was spent wandering the bush with her parents, picking wild foods, harvesting honey and growing a huge variety of vegies and fruit in the family garden in Gippsland, Victoria. Her first garden by the age of 5 was full of her favourite foods, broad beans, peas, radish, asparagus, sweet corn and dianthus flowers. Her outdoor childhood helped to sow the seeds of a love of nature and the potential for productive gardens.

As an adult, she naturally progressed from a career in midwifery into the equally nurturing field of horticulture, especially organic food, permaculture and education. In between times she also ran her own catering business, making gourmet meals for health-seeking executives and staff. She went on to teach at TAFE in Horticulture, and at several Queensland Universities in both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees around environment and sustainability.

In her spare time, Linda sinks her hands into the soil in her own beautiful organic acreage garden where hundreds of edible, medicinal and useful plants thrive. Edible flowers feature under the orchard trees, through the vegetable patch and are dotted through the beautiful herb and cottage gardens and surround the labyrinth. Her many hives of stingless native bees and European honey bees, pollinate fruit trees and vegies, giving abundant crops.
Most of the family meals originate in the garden and are picked fresh from just metres away. Friends, family and neighbours benefit from the greenthumb in their midst.

Host - Lish Fejer
Lish Fejer presents ABC Radio Canberra’s Breakfast program.

She loves an early start. Growing up in the bush she studied science at ANU.

She’s worked in the field of science communication as a presenter, speaker, writer and exhibition developer including co-hosting ABC TV’s eco-home-reno show Carbon Cops.

Lish rides a bike, does science experiments at parties (she met her husband when she fired a scone out of a potato cannon), spends her down time in the garden and kitchen and loves Canberra.

Hosted by renowned Canberra voices Ashley Feraude, ABC Radio Canberra Breakfast host Lish Fejer, and ABC Radio Canberra Saturday Breakfast host Adrienne Francis, the Floriade: Reimagined podcast will feature special guests each week.

Taking you from the garden to fashion, exploring the multidimensional beauty of flowers, and discussing the nature of plants, health, and sustainability, the six part Floriade: Reimagined podcasts will be released weekly on Thursdays from 10 September through to the Thursday 15 October 2020.