Just a few ideas to fill your leisure hours this weekend. Horse riding through the bush around Daylesford with Boomerang Holiday Ranch – call 5348 2525 Historic home, gorgeous gardens, plant nursery and gift shop all in one spot at Buda Historic Home & Garden Castlemaine Love Farmers Markets? One… Read more…
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Some things are just made to go together – sugar and spice, moonlight and roses, food and wine and now that Mount Buninyong Winery has their new kitchen up and running you can have the complete package. This family run, boutique winery is relaxed and unpretentious. They don’t conduct tours or… Read more…
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Hundreds of local mountain bike riders will brave the elements this weekend for the second year in a row on the trails around the Novotel Forest Resort’s for the first round of the Interwinter Series. The Interwinter Series is a inter-club series of events, held in combination with 4 local… Read more…
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It’s on again – the day when the residents of Ballan, west of Melbourne take to the streets to celebrate their town and community and they invite visitors to join them in all the fun. There will be street stalls, street parade, pet show, art show, wood chop, music, dancing,… Read more…
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Recently opened Red Fox Deli is the brainchild of Willy Schaap who opened her door in Creswick just before Christmas. Most new businesses have a few growing pains and Willy hasn’t escaped her share with the breakdown of a couple of fridges right in the middle of the hot weather. … Read more…
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‘Spilling the beans on making good coffee at home’. By Oliver Budack & Megan Spencer Coffee machines are like cars; you need to keep them maintained in order to get a good performance from them. Whether you have a Ferrari-the $5,000 home espresso machine-or HD Holden–the ‘share house’… Read more…
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Chef David Willcocks We had been invited to experience fine dining at The Argus Dining Room in Hepburn Springs iconic hotel, Peppers and it certainly was an experience. The food is superb – light, modern with flavours that work impeccably. Executive Chef David Willcocks is more than a chef –… Read more…
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By Simon Lock Anticipating a memorable experience was just the first stage of an evening spent on NineSevenSix, Bendigo’s tram restaurant. Arrival at the meeting point – Wine Bank on View, where we started the evening with a complimentary drink was fairly low key, surrounded as we were by the… Read more…
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Four years ago, Mark and Justine Coffey took over the running of Bendigo’s restaurant on wheels – the vintage tram car ninesevensix and in that time they have turned it into something exceptional. As owners of the award winning Wine Bank on View – recent runners up in Gourmet Traveller… Read more…
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The opportunity to buy fresh, quality produce that has only travelled a few kilometres is both a practical and enjoyable past time. People have the chance to speak with the growers about their produce and pick up some ideas about recipes. Of course if the market is accredited, that’s even… Read more…
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Now in its eighth year, the Maldon Twilight Food and Wine Festival has become a much anticipated, one could say, iconic event that will again take over the entire main street of the town on 19th January, 2013. Imagine a balmy summer evening, you, your friends and hundreds of strangers… Read more…
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Goldfields Farmhouse Also Turns 7 It is the seventh birthday for Secrets magazine and it was also for Goldfields Farmhouse Cheese in October, a time to reflect on what has passed and what we have achieved. There are occasions when I look around the dairy and wonder how we managed… Read more…
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Produce to Platter – Daylesford, Macedon Ranges, Ballarat & Pyrenees An interview with the authors Jonette George & Danielle Willmott Secrets: What was the motivation to write Produce to Platter? Jonette and I have a love of all things local. Some years ago we became very parochial about Australian… Read more…
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Birch Estate farm, is the inspiration of Chris Malden and Wayne Cross, two business men who stepped into agriculture in 2007. Birch Estate was bought with sustainability and food production in mind, to naturally raise and care for their livestock. Wayne says they always had the vision that its sheep,… Read more…
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A town that used to be known as “the place people drove through on the way to somewhere else” now has people placing it on the map as “somewhere they want to stop”. Creswick has morphed into a destination and has shaken off it’s “gee, what was that town we… Read more…
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Michael Daviss, Albane Mahaut, Gerhard Zitzenbacher Five years ago the Novotel Forest Resort arose out of the forest at Creswick and now prominently stands on the Midland Highway at the entrance to the town. A world class complex like the resort requires careful management and General Manager Michael Daviss has… Read more…
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