Kitchen garden grows
Kyneton High School has partnered with Sunbury and Cobaw Community Health and successfully secured a $50,000 grant from the state government to grow a...
Are they maggots in my compost?!
Over the warmer months it is not uncommon, when turning our compost piles, to uncover a particular fly’s larvae (or maggots) in our compost....
Bakery in full Blume
Blumes Historic Bakery in Harcourt was officially reopened to the public last Saturday after years of restoration work.
About 60 people attended the event, including...
How’d you like them apples?
Hundreds of people flocked to Harcourt Recreation Reserve last Saturday for the town’s 31st annual Applefest.
Marquees were set up on the oval and offered...
What to do with a compost that is too hot?
In last-week’s Compost Conversation we looked at what makes some batches of compost go over temperature (over 68o Celsius), and why that is a...
Building connections by a simple visit
Valuable connections are forming through Macedon Ranges Shire Council's Aged Care Volunteer Visitors Scheme.
The free service, federally funded, matches a council-organised volunteer with an...
RSL hailed at awards
Kyneton RSL was celebrated at the Victorian RSL annual Hall of Fame awards last month.
The dinner, held on February 15 at the Frankston RSL...
One final reunion
The committee of the Northern District School of Nursing Graduates Association is hosting a final reunion for anyone associated with the School of Nursing...
Grow your club
Sports clubs and active recreation facilities in the Macedon Ranges and Sunbury are being offered the opportunity to increase their membership numbers.
Sunbury and Cobaw...
Sisterhood Project spreads reach
Local charity The Sisterhood Project is spreading its reach to reduce preventable childhood deaths through first aid training for parents and carers.
The Sisterhood Project...
Too hot to handle
A mistake we humans often make is to think that if something is good, more of it will be better.
We can make this mistake...
Building strong communities
Three local men's sheds will share in more than $110,000 in state government funding to enable them to build two new sheds and improve...
