Indigenous gin; underground farming; Champagne fizzics; and sea cucumber cravings secure Groote Eylandt’s future

Great National Science Week FOOD stories up for grabs now around Australia

• Indigenous female-led distillery make gin from native botanicals – Townsville, QLD
• Lab-grown meat guru explores “biomanufacturing” – Sydney, NSW
• Balloon veggies persuade kids to eat healthy – Canberra, Condor, Denman Prospect & Holt, ACT
• A farm under Sydney’s CBD
• A seafood future for Groote Eylandt after mining – Alyangula, NT
• Gourmet mushrooms, grown in an abandoned railway tunnel – Mount Rumney, TAS
• Experimenting with beer – Hobart, TAS
• The best champagne glass and other science surprises in a bottle of bubbly – Melbourne, VIC
• Why won’t your beer hold its head? – Winnellie, NT