One of the great joys of summer in Central Victoria is the fact that we have an abundance of water holes and watering holes…
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Between Malmsbury and Daylesford is a dead-end lane that dips and swerves with the lay of the land. Zig Zag Road cuts through the last of the fertile basalt soils before they give way to the hard quartz country near Taradale…
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“I love the flavour and texture of small, new potatoes,” she says. “But they are something that you just can’t buy.”
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Five reasons to get lost.....(in other words, things coming up that you simply cannot miss)
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Well as another year draws to a close, we are as always, very grateful for the successes we have enjoyed, and the wonderful region in which we live and how for most of us, life really is pretty wonderful…
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This mandarin and orange blossom inspired gin fizz is the perfect spring cocktail named after the petite chanteuse, Blossom Dearie…
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We absolutely love Annie Smithers' cooking and her recipes are always generous, easy to follow and full of flavour. Annie lends us her wonderful whole roasted snapper dish for Summer to showcase the new potatoes, fennels and herbs of the season. A great dish for the upcoming balmy evenings…
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So you’re a gardener?” we ask Simon Rickard as we wander past established trees, trimmed hedges and herbaceous borders of his Trentham property. “I was,” he says with a laugh. “But my back isn’t what it was, so I have given up digging holes in the ground and let my brain do the work now…”
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When Yandoit farmer Paul Righetti went to register the name Real Eggs for his pasture raised eggs the authorities put the kaibosh on all that. He’d been calling his eggs ‘Real Eggs’ for years but had to settle on Honest Egg Company…
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A beautifully refreshing composition of dulcet tones for the palate, named after blues legend, Billie Holiday…
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Spring is here, and the asparagus has sprung. The chooks are laying and last year’s prosciutto and jamons are ready to slice…
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Lauriston artist Sarah Gabriel looks triumphant. She has spent the last six months working on her show Floral Engagement, an exhibition of works on paper and board depicting the flowers, birds, fabrics and objects that intertwine through her life on a beautiful bush property at Lauriston…
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Roll up, Roll up. It’s here. The First Annual World Circus and Cabaret Festival is taking place nestled amount the picturesque hills of Daylesford…
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“We just love gin!” says distiller and farmer Catherine Crothers. “It is our drink of choice.” She and husband Gary Jago make a very well-balanced gin called Big Tree on their farm looking out onto the Cobaw Ranges…
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“When you are part of a community you are part of something bigger…”
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Five reasons to get lost.....(in other words, things coming up that you simply cannot miss)
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With our small screens filled with reality shows creating makeovers in 48-hours, we could be forgiven for thinking that renovating houses is something that is done at a blistering speed with little to no experience, no professional tradies and for a ridiculously tiny budget. As long as everything looks good in the photos, who cares?
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There are some Hepburn locals who do not believe the spring waters have healing powers. Since the Swiss Italians first laid eyes on the mineral rich springs bubbling up from the earth this little warren of forest and gullies has been a magnet to those who wanting to drink the water or to bathe in it…
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But we are back after the unexpected holiday and feeling refreshed and charged and frankly, a little feisty. One of the positives that always comes through after something like that happens is that you see local country folk digging deep and resolutely ensuring that the show must go on…
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Go in the draw to win 2 tickets to The Hungry Gentlement Masterquiz on Monday 15 October, with a swanky room at The Farmers Arms Art Motel and a $100 gift voucher to Bowen and Kenneth…
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