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Rural Reporter May 18, 2013

A wild mushroom hunt, kindy kids on a day trip in the Grampians, breeding the perfect orchid and getting messy at an urban wine making experience.

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Rural Reporter May 25 2013

This week a focus on volunteers - meeting the people who spend days, weeks, even months rebuilding fences and communities through the Blazeaid organisation; and they're looking for volunteer...

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Rural Reporter June 1 2013

One of Australia's last eucalyptus oil producers; a unique farm diversification into bow-hunting tourism, tips on cooking the perfect steak and Dinky the dingo's musical career.

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Rural Reporter June 8, 2013

We head to the Simpson Desert to study one of Australia's rarest trees and meet a publican in an outback pub. We're on hand to see the final hydrogen weather balloon lift off in Mildura and we join...

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Rural Reporter June 15, 2013

Saddling up for the Tom Quilty endurance horse ride, a 160km/24 hour challenge for both horse and rider.  An early start to the NSW truffle harvest and we visit the remote Aboriginal community of...

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Rural Reporter June 22, 2013

Cable Beach in Broome a playground for kids from the Port Hedland School of the Air, teasing your tastebuds with Mediterranean olives and native Australian finger limes, and meet two old drovers and...

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Rural Reporter June 29, 2013

Heading bush with the mobile toy library, two lads from Liverpool trying their luck in the bull ride at Brunette Downs, cooking with kangaroo and goanna and researchers in Victoria on eating seaweed.

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Rural Reporter July 6, 2013

Spuds, mobile chicken coops, a veteran woodchopper, and sausages. And Elina Garreffa the chilli lady.

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Rural Reporter July 13, 2013

A poor wet season for Territory crabbers, a travelling lumberjack, poultry on the NSW coast and poddies in the NT.

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Rural Reporter July 20, 2013

We ride the bi-centennial horse trail and fish for scallops in Tasmania. Sick turtles get the spa treatment and we check out a barbed wire collection in South Australia.

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Rural Reporter, July 27 2013

This week we make a scarecrow and watch a Superdog show. Horses and fireworks don't mix in Alice Springs and we go camel racing at Boulia.

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Rural Reporter August 3, 2013

Visit a wine cellar that's been blasted out of a granite hillside; deliver fish eggs to a trout farm; teach young boys and girls to parade their cattle and a special bush tucker garden opens in Alice...

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Rural Reporter August 10, 2013

This week we're burning cane in the Burdekin, panning for gold at Pine Creek; disadvantaged youth get a helping hand, and coppers versus the bushies at Harts Range.

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Rural Reporter, August 17 2013

This week we're collecting scientific data from the sea and under our feet, and the bush comes to the city when Brisbane hosts the Royal Queensland Show, better known as the EKKA.

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Rural Reporter, August 24 2013

This week we go bush with indigenous guides, and find out why there's a lighthouse in central Australia. And Aussie wine and cheese take out some international awards.

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Rural Reporter, September 14 2013

This week social media saves a farm; organic grain growers take control of their product; and black garlic's on the menu. There's also high hopping bunnies and performing circus cows.

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Rural Reporter, September 21 2013

This week we go droving with the Brinkworth mob; head to the Pannawonica rodeo; and meet a young apprentice female jockey. We also pick the first peony flowers of the season.

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Rural Reporter, September 28 2013

Wildflowers carpet the desert country; the magpie geese season starts in the territory; wild brumbies find new homes and we meet one of the last bullockies in Australia.

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Rural Reporter, October 5 2013

This week we put our green thumbs to work developing a community garden; and kids teach kids where their food comes from. We enrol in a rodeo school, and go diving for seaweed.

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Rural Reporter, October 12 2013

Bush Heritage celebrates a decade of conservation work; botanical artists paint in Menindee; hack horses get a makeover; and the cricket season gets underway.

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