Chicks in the Sticks
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Women gather in gumboots
After days of torrential rain, it was lucky the dress code included gumboots for the 10th anniversary of the North Central Catchment Management Authority’s Chicks in the Sticks event. With COVID restrictions preventing the event from running for two years, almost 100 women were delighted to meet face to face in the beautiful gardens at…
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Chicks in Sticks co-founder named award finalist
Eve Lamb A love of the land and of landcare has seen former Castlemaine Secondary College student Tess Grieves named among the finalists for this year’s national Steadfast Young Landcare Leadership Award. Helping to organise the annual Chicks in the Sticks rural women’s event, which she co-founded 10 years ago, is just one of the…