[Video transcript of the interview with home gardener Eva Mazzei.]

[The video opens with a tracking scene of Eva’s backyard filled with indigenous native plants, tracking toward a sitting table and two ornate metal chairs. The Agriculture Victoria logo appears on screen. This is followed by a close up of her water fountain with a centre-piece of two figurines.

The Journey We Make soundtrack plays throughout the video.

Eva, who has short cropped grey hair, sits at the sitting table in her garden with a cup of tea. She is clicking on her tablet which is set up on the table.]

My name is Eva and I’m retired.

[Eva appears on screen wearing an olive-green long-sleeved t-shirt and blue jeans. She is sitting in a wicker chair on her back porch for the duration of her interview.]

I work in my garden and I’m also a member of the West Meadows Indigenous Community Garden.

[On screen, Eva is watering her garden, then seen bending to weed in her flower bed, a bee hovers around a white flowering plant.]

To tell you the truth, I didn’t even think or know about biosecurity. There is a lot more that I can do and share about biosecurity.

[As Eva talks, different scenes of her garden can be seen, including purple flowers,  figs, tomatoes, Eva watering her garden, water spraying healthy green plants, a bee hovering near a plant, a rosella perched on a branch in a tree, and a caterpillar moving upon a large fig leaf.]

My garden is important to me because all the work I have done in it, and where I live, I’m trying to slowly change the garden more for the environment, for the birds and wildlife to come back.

If you have a disease in the garden, how quickly it can spread and all your work that you have put in would be destroyed.

It’s just I don’t want anything to happen to my garden. I think it would be devastating.

[Eva reaches up to a fig branch, and then snips the fig branch with her secateurs, inspecting evidence of gall wasps. She carries a plastic basket and walks through her garden.]

The procedures I use in my own garden would come under biosecurity, because keeping my tools clean and watching out for pests, eradicating things that you see straight away.

[Eva weeds the garden path, picking weeds out of the bark and pebbled path, clipping plants from the ground. Eva brushes weeds from the path, watering the garden, and turning the tap.]

Local gardeners can have a big effect on what happens with keeping our environment safe.

[She picks up a beetle, we see a close up of the beetle on her hand. Then she scrolls her phone searching in My Pest Guide app. On screen appears a flower bed, Eva putting refuse in a green bucket, and then turning the compost.]

I also have My Pest Guide App on my phone so that I have access to it any time I need to take a photo send it and it is very easy to do, it doesn’t take much time.

Getting the disease or the pests before it can spread out. And it is very important as a normal gardener, just to do your bit. This is what/where we can make a difference in our backyard to the biosecurity of our country.

[The final scenes of the video show Eva holding photo of backyard looking outside across her backyard. Text appears on the screen that shows the Agriculture Victoria logo and then is followed by a URL that reads agriculture.vic.gov.au/make-a-difference.

This is followed by an acknowledgement of Country in white text on a black screen that reads: Agriculture Victoria acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Victoria and their ongoing connection to the land and water.

The Victorian Government authorisation tag appears on screen, on the black background it reads:

Victoria State Government (logo)

Authorised by Victorian Government, 1 Treasury Place, Melbourne]