Cow manure. Great, if you can get it
Cow manure is one of the best manures for our compost pile and many early compost recipes recommended cow (dairy) or cattle...
Conversations about life, death and dying
The monthly Good Grief Lounge returns to the Northern Arts Hotel in Castlemaine this Saturday.
This month's special guests...
Feasting and daring to believe
For 12 years, Mohammad (not his real name) lived with uncertainty and dread. Now, he can at last dare to believe.
Keeping warm in winter
With temperatures plummeting at the arrival of winter, tenants of rented homes can now access a video on how to make their...
New chapter for book store
Lancefield residents are so fond of their local bookstore they have hatched a plan in a bid to keep it open.
Lancefield Neighbourhood House enters new era
Lancefield Neighbourhood House's 'townhouse' has relocated and entered a new era.
The community asset has provided the town with...
A one hundred year lesson
What is the lesson a father, poet, farmer, black jack player and WWII veteran learnt in life?
At Bupa...
Local identities headline event
Several special guests were featured at the Kyneton Mechanics Institute on Sunday June 15 as Macedon Ranges Shire Council and the Kindness...
Big ideas for small business
Artists, makers, creative entrepreneurs and arts-focused business owners will get a boost for their business skills at Mount Alexander Shire’s Micro and...
Does your compost pass the Pub Sniff Test?
You may have heard of ‘The Pub Test’, a conceptual check of a political idea with people down the pub. You might...
The three axes
In previous compost conversations we have looked at the importance of carbon/nitrogen ratios, getting the moisture levels of our compost right and...
Parky Pals welcome you
Parkinson’s disease is affecting more and more people world-wide and no-one really knows why.
A Parkinson’s diagnosis is a...
