Australia’s premier pumpkin patch
June 19, 2019
Once famous for bushrangers and picturesque pub, the hamlet of Ovens is now becoming famous as Australia’s epicentre of pumpkin seed production. Sharan Rivett’s Slovenian
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Victoria’s hottest new destination
June 18, 2019
Sea Lake is one of those towns with a great name that not many people knew about – until recently when the giant waterbody
Grain and brain boom underpin Birchip’s renaissance
June 17, 2019
On Tchum Lake, just outside of Birchip, there can be 15 or 20 speedboats plying the waters of the farmer-constructed waterbody, when the Summer sun
Lal Lal’s gift
June 13, 2019
Despite the torrential rain I get out of the van and splash across the grass to an excessively fenced off ridge line, where you can
Home delivery
June 8, 2019
Bel and Jordan found each other in a Ballarat mail sorting room. Bel had grown up in the Eastern suburbs of Melbourne, studied photography and
Bealiba’s new (quiet) boom
June 6, 2019
The discovery of yellow metal at the foot of Mt Bealiba in 1856 created a town of 12,000 desperadoes, but when the gold rush left,
Picture this – the man who became mayor
June 4, 2019
For decades, the cold winds of stasis blew along Clunes’ historic main street. Gold fever had deserted the town in the 1890s, leaving a small
Living the journey from vine to wine
June 3, 2019
On a rainy Friday night, when you hear the crack of a metal cap and the familiar glug-glug-glug noise of your favourite beverage burbling into
Are these Australia’s best mushrooms?
June 2, 2019
Nobody knows exactly why the hilltop area around the southern Victorian locality of Caveat has the potential to become Australia’s new gourmet mushroom mecca. The
Welcome pack provides instant ‘family’ in rural community
June 1, 2019
Small towns are renowned for being friendly, but when representatives of the townsfolk of Tallangatta gathered in the Memorial Hall for a discussion on ways