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By Linda Gordon
“We’re just a bunch of locals who want to plant some trees,” says Phillip Island orchard co-op member Lars Olsen.
“We’re just a bunch of locals who want to plant some trees,” says Phillip Island orchard co-op member Lars Olsen.
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By Linda Gordon
IN A former life Win Kyi was a farmer. Like most successful farmers she understood the land and worked with it to produce food.
Unlike most farmers she was forced to leave her land and her country behind and join the ranks of Burma’s dispossessed. More than a decade in a refugee camp for displaced people on the Thai Burma border followed.
IN A former life Win Kyi was a farmer. Like most successful farmers she understood the land and worked with it to produce food.
Unlike most farmers she was forced to leave her land and her country behind and join the ranks of Burma’s dispossessed. More than a decade in a refugee camp for displaced people on the Thai Burma border followed.
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By Linda Gordon
WELL, look at that. More rain. Driving rain you might call it, straight off Bass Strait via a bitter westerly wind. Nothing for it but to get a fire going and nourish the soul with inspiring words, words that lift one up and speak to the heart of renewal, hope and faith. The new garden seed catalogue!
WELL, look at that. More rain. Driving rain you might call it, straight off Bass Strait via a bitter westerly wind. Nothing for it but to get a fire going and nourish the soul with inspiring words, words that lift one up and speak to the heart of renewal, hope and faith. The new garden seed catalogue!
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By Linda Gordon
WHEN the weather is winter with a capital ‘w’ and no mercy, as it is this August day, I think of the indomitable gardening spirit of Aunt Peggy. She grew a garden wherever she lived, from pokey boarding houses in inner Melbourne to rented rural houses on poor land, to the place she finally called home, in the foothills of the Dandenongs.
WHEN the weather is winter with a capital ‘w’ and no mercy, as it is this August day, I think of the indomitable gardening spirit of Aunt Peggy. She grew a garden wherever she lived, from pokey boarding houses in inner Melbourne to rented rural houses on poor land, to the place she finally called home, in the foothills of the Dandenongs.
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By Linda Gordon
BASS Coast Shire is lagging behind other municipalities and its more environmentally minded residents when it comes to planting out nature strips.
South Dudley’s Helen Searle and Richard Kentwell have been disappointed with the council’s reaction to the fruit and veggies they carefully planted in front of their Station Street home.
BASS Coast Shire is lagging behind other municipalities and its more environmentally minded residents when it comes to planting out nature strips.
South Dudley’s Helen Searle and Richard Kentwell have been disappointed with the council’s reaction to the fruit and veggies they carefully planted in front of their Station Street home.
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By Catherine Watson
THE ladies are talking fascinators, the punters are talking odds, the best horses in the country are raring to go. It can mean only one thing … time to put in the tomatoes.
Melbourne Cup Day, the first Tuesday in November, is traditionally the day when home gardeners take a calculated punt and plant out their tomato seedlings, trusting that the odds of a late frost are now at least 100-1.
THE ladies are talking fascinators, the punters are talking odds, the best horses in the country are raring to go. It can mean only one thing … time to put in the tomatoes.
Melbourne Cup Day, the first Tuesday in November, is traditionally the day when home gardeners take a calculated punt and plant out their tomato seedlings, trusting that the odds of a late frost are now at least 100-1.