Community News
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Reflections of a composter
In this week’s Compost Conversation, the team from YIMBY (Yes In My Back Yard) bid farewell to their very first YIMBY composter. Melinda Jane took a leap of faith and joined YIMBY at the beginning of 2021. During this time, 2834 kgs of food scraps were processed in her backyard. She collected 919 buckets from…
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The Compost Conversation – with Joel Meadows
The big chop It’s important to chop our compost ingredients fine enough so that they have the right consistency to break down perfectly in our compost piles, not too coarse, not too fine, think about every bit of nitrogen-rich food scrap being small enough to be in good contact with some carbon-rich ingredient. Let’s have…
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Sowing seeds of kindness
A robust community garden in New Gisborne is helping to put fresh food on the table for vulnerable residents.
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Making Riddell resilient
Riddells Creek 72 Hour Emergency Team will ensure its community has a plan immediately following a disaster event.
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Woods in charge
Leading Senior Constable Erik Woods is the new officer in charge at Macedon Police Station and has a strong focus on community connection.
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Hundreds impacted by storms
Hundreds of Macedon Ranges residents have experienced flood and storm impacts since Christmas Eve and Macedon Ranges Shire Council has been working to prioritise and address concerns.
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Community benefits from garden fair
Five local community organisations and one national charity will share in more than $28,000 as a result of the success of the most recent Garden Lovers Fair held at Bolobek in Macedon in October this year.
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Co-op plans progress
Castlemaine Community Investment Co-operative’s plans to purchase The Hub building are progressing.
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School holiday fun is here!
Macedon Ranges Shire Council is hosting a range of fun activities and events for children and young people in the shire throughout the 2023/24 summer school holidays.
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Finding comfort in company
A program offering a three-day retreat to dementia sufferers and their carers has been praised by the Minister for Health Mary- Anne Thomas.
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Christmas at Angie’s
Angie’s Cafe and Bakeshop and t2zero have joined forces to deliver a free community Christmas lunch for Kyneton people doing it tough this year.
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Monster celebration this Saturday
Take a trip back into our goldfields past at the annual 1851 Diggers’ Monster Meeting celebration at Chewton this Saturday. The commemorative event will take place on the original site of the historic meeting on the banks of Forest Creek in the Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park at Chewton from 3pm. The meeting on December…