Articles tagged ‘Grow food in Castlemaine’.
Great Grandma Sassy ‘Saskatchewan’ O’Higgins came to Australia from County Monaghan via Canada and Chicago. She migrated after falling i...
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It’s CI’s birthday! Two. How would you live without us? Let us know! Congratulate us. Conditions of congratulating us: 1. No hate bloggers...
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By Christian Monahan, Produce Garden Farm For a while there the terms “tree change” and “sea change” were much bandied about, it seemed like a...
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For the past 18 months or so Ellen Madigan has been working on a great new project for the shire, and it will be launched on Thursday 24 November at t...
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By Christian Monahan, The Produce Garden It’s mid-spring (apparently) and if you have a protected spot in the garden from our obligatory late ...
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Climate change means pests such as fruit fly are now threatening local crops, and have the potential to devastate commercial and backyard growers. The...
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By Andrew McKenna I was in a dilemma. I needed some timber to build a retaining wall in the back yard. I considered the possibilities: old redgum slee...
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Christian Monahan, from The Produce Garden, is writing regularly for CI, and we are delighted to have him on board. We’ll be publishing his work on...
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Renowned Australian gardener and educator, Simon Rickard is coming to Newstead for a full day workshop on growing fruit trees in the home or community...
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Christian Monahan, from The Produce Garden, is going to write regularly for CI, and we are delighted to have him on board. We’ll be publishing his w...
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The Program Brochure for BudaFest 2011 is now available and bookings are open for this major Central Victorian gardening festival being held in Castle...
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A protest sign in the Adelaide Hills where apple growers are rallying against apple imports they say could bring fire blight in to Australia. They cla...
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Castlemaine Community House has issued its first program since moving the office to the Faulder Watson Hall at 210 Barker Street, Castlemaine. In addi...
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Growing Abundance is running a series of fruit tree pruning and grafting workshops with experienced local teachers. Come and learn the basics of how t...
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Matthew Brownrigg’s garden was hugely productive over the summer and fed several families. Now winter’s arrived he hasn’t stopped wo...
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By Andrew McKenna ‘The main growing season here is March to December. It’s the natural growing season for this area. I think people might be t...
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If you haven’t heard of Growing Abundance, you should. It’s a Castlemaine Community House project and it is aiming to reduce Castlemaine...
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By Andrew McKenna ‘It’s quite a nice thing to comtemplate what you do and why you do it. ‘I was thinking about gardening and me. My ...
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By Andrew McKenna ‘Castlemaine soil has a natural end. When you build it up it ends naturally. We started with keeping the soil we’ve got. Oft...
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By Andrew McKenna ‘We’ve never had a summer this humid and wet. It’s been extraordinary.’ Sue Turner has been living in this d...
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By Andrew McKenna ‘A gardener is there to be observant. For me it’s a holistic garden. This one is five acres. If you grow something in balanc...
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By Andrew McKenna A goldfields-era garden has been transformed into a showcase vegetable garden in the middle of town, and one of those who have trans...
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By Andrew McKenna Saul Roche loves being in his vegetable garden. I’d heard about his garden from a few people and decided to go and see it and ...
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Allie’s Permablitz By Allie Hanly My garden started as pretty much a blank slate. A lovely, sloped, north facing blank slate. I knew I wanted ...
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It may sound odd, a permanent blitz? An unusual new hairstyle? But those permablitz characters in Castlemaine are quietly transforming the way some of...
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