Youth shine in awards
A big-hearted cyclist, young art entrepreneur and LGBTIQA+ community advocate are among Macedon Ranges Youth Award winners this year.
Celebrated for their outstanding achievements at...
The Compost Conversation – with Joel Meadows
The great turning
There is both fear and mystique surrounding the turning of compost piles. Many people never turn their compost, but there are benefits...
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 year, people2people...
See the new centre
Embracia Childcare and Kindergarten is Kyneton's newest childcare centre located on the heritage-listed ‘Old Kyneton Hospital’ site.
Construction of the centre is now complete...
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 skills and...
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 compost pile that can really improve...
Little voices, loud futures
Pete Dawson
More than 400 children from schools and people from around the Mount Alexander (Leanganook) Shire turned up for a 'fabudeadly' mini-festival at Castlemaine’s...
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 research into...
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 pile, it can be quite contagious,...
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* team, I have stuck my nose...
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 bushland.
The weekends...
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 Mission Sanctuary...
