Community News
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Immortals unveiled at the Shrine
An exhibition honouring our World War I diggers, Immortals, featuring the work of Castlemaine artist Clayton Tremlett opened at Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance on Saturday. The exhibition, which previously featured at the Soldiers Memorial Institute in Bendigo in 2022 and Central Goldfields Art Gallery in Maryborough in 2023, celebrates and connects a shared history for…
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Paralympian to speak on resilience
Men’s mental health is in the spotlight for a barbecue gathering with a special guest speaker paralympian Liam Twomey at Mount Macedon Golf Club. Twomey will share his inspiring story of overcoming mental ill-health after experiencing grief and loss. His journey towards wellness serves as a powerful example of resilience, making his address a highlight…
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The good manure
Animal manures can be fantastic additions to our compost recipe, in fact their use pre-dates deliberate compost making in the Western tradition. In traditional English and European agriculture, animal manures, rather than compost, were the main form for returning fertility to the soil. Farms almost always included a diversity of animals; horses, ‘house’ cows or…
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Kyneton twilight market fundraiser this Friday
Get revved up for Kyneton High School’s Twilight Market and Show n Shine fundraiser this Friday. The event will be held at the school grounds on October 11 from 5pm to 8pm. It will have a variety of food vendors/stalls, general stalls, live music, entertainment, sausage sizzle, silent auction, and, of course, vehicles for the…
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Murphy throws support behind Lap it UP
This time last year, Nathan Murphy was in the thick of AFL finals, about to fulfil his childhood dream of playing in and winning a Grand Final in front of 100,024 people. Twelve months later, he is at peace with the decision to retire from the game for his health and turning his focus to…
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Sir Albert Howard – Compost Pioneer
Back in the early 20th century, Sir Albert Howard (often called the father of modern organic agriculture) brought the Indore method of hot composting from the farms of India and China to a ‘western’ audience. Hot composting, as we now practise it, is a direct descendant of that work. Howard was born in Shropshire, England,…
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The question of wood ash
Can I put wood ash from my fire in the compost? It’s a question we are often asked here at YIMBY. As with anything involving living systems, the answer is never an easy ‘yes’ or ‘no’. So, let’s have a little dive into ash and its potential uses. Ash is the non-combustible residue that is…
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Fundraiser a smash hit
Australian music legend Daryl Braithwaite joined local talent Taylor Sheridan to blow the roof off the Kyneton Town Hall on Sunday in a special fundraising concert for the Malmsbury Fire Brigade. Before a full house, the two performers played their own sets before uniting to perform Braithwaite’s hit The Horses, drawing raucous applause from an…
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Market gives back to local community
The Riddells Creek Farmers Market committee has handed over a $3000 cheque to Riddells Creek Primary School. The donation was made possible after reporting a healthy profit this financial year, due to the huge efforts of the volunteer team to grow the market over the past 12 months. Those efforts saw 12 markets, more than…
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One bin good, two bins better
Managing the outputs of a cool compost bin can get complicated, particularly if we only have one bin, where we can find ourselves with finished compost in the bottom and fresh food scraps at the top. Cool composting is so much easier if we have two bins that can rotate functions, an active one for…
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Market under new management
Champion for central Victorian farmers markets, Meggs Hannes has been appointed interim market manager of the Castlemaine Farmers Markets. Meggs’ appointment follows the resignation of Chris Hain who has served the Castlemaine Farmers Market community for the past eight years. Meggs started this week at the Castlemaine Weekly Farmers Market and is excited to be…
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Free-range worm farming
I’ll let you in on a little compost secret. A well set up cool composting bin and a worm-farm are pretty indistinguishable. Scandalous, I know, but here’s the reason why. Good compost is made with a good balanced blend of materials (if you have missed it you can read up on our favourite topic at…