Health & lifestyle: Season with health
Herbs and spices add flavour, colour and fragrance to meals – but many have great health traits as well.
Three spices that are rich in medicinal properties and commonly found in Australian pantries are turmeric, ginger and cinnamon.
Tasty win for winery
Tylden’s Pegeric Wines has had another taste of international success.
Chris Cormack’s Pegeric Wines 2007 pinot noir won the trophy for the Best Wine with...
Sunbury pies take the cake
Donna and Steve Mowatt are ruffling a few feathers with their award-winning pies.
The Scottish couple, who own Sunbury foodstore Mowatt’s, picked up a number...
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Carols by Candlelight
Gisborne and New Gisborne primary schools and a choir will perform at Carols by Candlelight on Sunday, December 10 from 6pm at...
Gisborne to get an Aldi supermarket
A plan to open an Aldi supermarket in Gisborne has been given the green light.
Macedon Ranges councillors last week approved the company’s planning permit...
An organic approach to health in Sunbury
Two Sunbury women are making healthy, organically grown produce more widely available this spring, and they want to spread the word.
September is Australian Organic...
Budding baristas learn the basics of a good brew in Woodend
Budding baristas can learn the basics of a good brew from the maestros at a new course in Woodend.
Remy Shpayzer, new owner of Fox...
Kyneton’s La Bonta earns high praise
The best Italian restaurant in country Victoria calls Kyneton home.
Piper Street’s La Bonta won the best regional Italian restaurant award at the Victorian Savour...
Fungi feasts best found by foragers in the know
If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise … but it won’t be a teddy bears’ picnic. It...
Good company, fresh food & lessons at community centre
Good company, fresh food and lessons from a qualified chef will provide the ingredients for success at a new course starting on July 28...
Feast to celebrate finest local produce
The Macedon Ranges’ best chefs, produce and wine will be key ingredients for an unforgettable night in Trentham this Saturday.
The fifth annual Growers, Cookers...
Taste of Kyneton a paddock to plate feast
The toast of Kyneton’s thriving foodie scene will lay out a massive spread of signature dishes at Sunday’s Taste of Kyneton festival.
This year’s event...
Celebrating 25 years of Budburst
The epicurean delights of the Macedon Ranges will take centre stage as part of this weekend’s Macedon Ranges Wine and Food Festival.
Formerly known as...
Produce swap a community affair
A produce swap born out of a Sunbury resident’s plenty continues to grow.
Polly Woodward started Harvest Sunbury almost 18 months ago, eager to share...
Men’s program boosts kitchen confidence
Blokes wanting to increase their confidence in the kitchen can join a new cooking group in Sunbury.
Men with Forks shows people, such as Paul...
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Funding gives kids strong start
More children from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds will receive support to access and attend kindergarten across 25 councils including Hume.
Children Minister Lizzie...
