Macedon Ranges Sustainability Group
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Woodend market a world best
Woodend has been honoured as one of the Top 3 Farmers Market Towns… not just in Australia, but in the world, for 2025. The recognition was given at the Third General Assembly of the World Farmers Markets Coalition, held during the World Food Forum in Rome. While Rome took the top prize, Woodend’s recognition as…
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Vegelicious venues celebrated
The winners of the 2025 Edgy Veg Awards have been crowned and five local businesses in the Macedon Ranges and Mount Alexander Shires have been celebrated for their incredible vegelicious fare. The awards are now in their fourth year and expanded to Mount Alexander Shire for the first time in 2025. This event is the…
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Has your fave veg got the edge?
The Edgy Veg Awards are set to return this April for the fourth year in the Macedon Ranges, and have now expanded to Mount Alexander Shire! Given only 13 per cent of the local population eat enough veg, the event couldn’t have come at a better time. Show your support for your favourite local (and…
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Invest in your food producers
This Australia Day weekend you have the opportunity to stock up on great locally produced foods and in doing so, invest in the central Victorian farming and food-producing families who have been supplying quality foods to the Macedon Ranges and beyond for the past 21 years. Visits to the Lancefield and District Farmers Market commence…
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Market brings the warmth
This Saturday the Lancefield and District Farmers Market brings you another bumper lineup of 85 local and regional producers, many multi-award winning leaders in their field and a diversity of local produce. Winter vegetables are particularly sweet due to their cold growing conditions and will be available in abundance from Ortale Market Garden, Rare Earth…
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Edgy veggies!
Winners of the 2024 Edgy Veg Awards have been finalised! More than 650 votes were collated to determine the winning café – Social Foundry in Kyneton, and the winning restaurant – Flying Pigeon in Gisborne. The Social Foundry tantalised tastebuds across town with their Wild Mushrooms dish. It took mushrooms to a new level with…
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Score the Edgy Veg dishes!
Fook Shing in Kyneton is entering a vegan mapo tofu dish in this year’s Edgy Veg Awards. It sits alongside 20 other entries including a caramelised eggplant dish at Holgates in Woodend, a wild mushroom dish at Social Foundry and plant-based chick’n satay skewers at Lancefield’s Lost Watering Hole to name a few. This will…
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Energy park on hold
Macedon Ranges Sustainability Group has put its community energy park project on hold indefinitely after receiving confirmation from the state government that regulatory barriers can’t be overcome in the next term. The vital step to enable the project to move forward was for the government to amend the Plantations Act to allow for non-forestry uses,…
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Neighbourhood battery push
A neighbourhood battery could soon provide back-up power during unplanned outages for Macedon Ranges’ east if the project gains support. A Macedon Ranges Sustainability Group study identified North Woodend, Newham and Lancefield as most impacted by unplanned power outages in the Ranges. The group’s state-funded battery feasibility study has determined a business use case that…
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A leader in sustainability
David Gormley-O’Brien’s passion for sustainability has inspired positive change in the Macedon Ranges. Last week he was honoured as Macedon Ranges Shire Council’s Citizen of the Year. David’s interest in sustainability grew when he and his partner, Sara, moved to a small Woodend property in 2008 that they transformed to provide a high degree of…
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Get to know your grower
With the issues currently faced by supermarkets in being able to keep the shelves stocked due to high rates of COVID-related absenteeism, Macedon Ranges locals are being encouraged to source their fresh produce locally and discover the many growers and makers in the region. A new website is helping connect families to the abundance of…
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Regional pride on show
An evening celebrating fashion, self-expression and affirmation is planned for the Macedon Ranges this week. ‘Queers on the Catwalk’ will celebrate rural and regional pride with a focus on LGBTIQA+ identity expression through clothing and accessories. After the success of the first Queers on the Catwalk in October 2019, this year’s event will bring together…