The Hub Foundation
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A breath of fresh air
A former charge nurse and current resident at Castlemaine Hospital, 82-year-old Margaret is living with dementia, supported by caring staff who respectfully refer to her as Sister. Margaret’s husband of 61 years, John, has recently started taking her for trishaw rides through the botanic gardens, enjoying the fresh air and meeting new people. At the…
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Working towards net zero
The Mt Alexander Net Zero Working Group has been busy behind the scenes highlighting the efforts of local businesses in working towards 100 per cent renewable energy. Following the success of their first short film featuring The Mill Castlemaine, the group successfully applied for a Mount Alexander Shire Council grant to assist with the production…
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Hub on the market
The long-time owners of ‘The Hub’ Castlemaine, Neil and Heather Barrett, have made the difficult decision to put the 120-year-old property on the market. The Castlemaine couple said they were both ‘above’ retirement age and had decided the time had come to sell the Barker Street property to focus on their major project, The Paddock…
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Breaking down compost
Lucy Young for The Hub Foundation This month YIMBY (Yes In My Backyard) hosted an enthusiastic group of composters at an advanced composting workshop. We got down and dirty, hands in buckets of ‘ingredients’ for a balanced compost, and our noses being used as finely balanced instruments to analyse the quality of finished compost. As…
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Life is better on a bike
Penny Gilbert, CycleSafe Mount Alexander Modern parents have a lot to keep track of while balancing the needs of small people. We are concerned about climate change, wars, pandemics, inequality, elections, the list goes on, and yet we want the world to be a good place for our children and we want our lives to…
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Excited about compost?
YIMBY is calling for experienced and enthusiastic composters to come on board and join The YIMBY (Yes in My Backyard) team. They’ve been busy behind the scene since receiving funding to roll out phase two of the YIMBY composting trial across Mount Alexander Shire. “This is an exciting milestone towards creating a truly local system…
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Yes in my backyard
A trial neighbourhood solution to reducing organics in landfill will be expanded thanks to a $60,000 grant from the Victorian Government’s Recycling Communities Fund.The YIMBY (Yes in My Backyard) model, run by The Hub Foundation in Castlemaine, aims to connect people through small hubs, nurtured by a small team of community composters. The community composters…
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Castlemaine unwrapped!
A special tour taking place in Castlemaine next week will show participants where and how they can shop locally to keep single-use plastic out of their shopping baskets and out of the environment. Castlemaine Unwrapped – A Tour happens next Monday July 22 and follows the first such tour that was well received by local…