Who’s for top dog?
Two border collies from Darraweit Guim are among the finalists to be named Top Office Dog in the feel-good campaign of the...
See the new centre
Embracia Childcare and Kindergarten is Kyneton's newest childcare centre located on the heritage-listed ‘Old Kyneton Hospital’ site.
Construction...
Student-led project to help homeless
An innovative new project aims to assist young people and families facing homelessness in Mount Alexander Shire, while also helping students develop...
The Compost Conversation – with Joel Meadows
Carbon cap and store
There is a little trick you can do every time you add ingredients to your...
Little voices, loud futures
Pete Dawson
More than 400 children from schools and people from around the Mount Alexander (Leanganook) Shire turned up...
Local couple’s cancer pledge
Castlemaine couple Marianne and Ross Allan has pledged a significant investment to the Australian Pancreatic Cancer Foundation 'Pankind' to fast-track early detection...
The Compost Conversation – with Joel Meadows
Hot, or what?
There is a fever that gardeners catch once they have made their first successful hot compost...
The Compost Conversation – with Joel meadows
The good, the bad and the beautiful
In my work as a compost educator and volunteer on the YIMBY*...
Finding rites of passage
For the past 23 years, a group of men from Castlemaine has been running rites of passage weekends out in the local...
Interns create memorial garden
Earlier this month a team of eight young interns launched their design for a new Memorial Garden, to be built at Edgar’s...
For the next generation
Connecting Country is co-hosting a National Tree Day community planting with Mount Alexander Shire Council and Post Office Hill Action Group on...
The Compost Conversation – with Joel Meadows
When I go out door-knocking with our YIMBY* composters, looking for households to offer us weekly buckets of food scraps, I am...
