Peter Cundall AM

Peter Cundall began broadcasting in the late 1960's with one of the world's first radio gardening talk-back programs.  In 1969 he also began hosting television gardening programs for the ABC, a role he continued for almost 40 years.

His gardening interests began during the Great Depression, when as a child, he created a productive vegetable garden to help feed his family.  He served as an infantry soldier in WW2, during the Palestine War and again with Australia's 3rd Battalion during the Korean War.  After settling in Tasmania he developed a landscaping business while taking an active role in forming the Organic Gardening and Farming Society.  In 1974 Peter was awarded a Churchill Fellowship enabling him to visit the US, Britain and Africa to study organic growing, landscaping techniques and television program creation/presentation with the BBC.

Although leaving ABC-TV's 'Gardening Australia' in 2008, Peter continues to broadcast weekly gardening programs on ABC Radio and writes weekly and monthly columns for several magazines and newspapers.  He is deeply involved in environmental, peace and child-protection movements.

Preserving the past, planting the future.