October 16, 2025
October 2, 2025
Vulnerable ducks
Regardless of how many native ducklings I’ve seen and raised over the years, they still melt my heart. Each year many come to Bohollow for help when they run into trouble. The season has started with Wood ducklings and the first one to come in for the season moved
Spring is here
Spring is here and it never ceases to delight me to see the garden begin to burst with colour. If you can, it is a lovely time to walk around your neighbourhood. It is also a great opportunity to see what grows well in your area. Many exotics (not native
Roast pumpkin salad
As the weather warms up, our thoughts turn to salads. This one (brought to you by one of our other daughters) can be served hot or cold - delish either way. INGREDIENTS Pumpkin Pkt haloumi cheese Pitted olives Almond slivers or pine nuts Baby spinach leaves Salt and pepper to
Myth Busters
One thing about researching for this column is that I have found that many of the arguments put forward by people, especially when they are about contentious issues, are simply not true. Here are a few of these myths. Barmah heritage horses. The feral horses in the Barmah Forest wetlands
Police news prominent in early October 1975
Replacing the retired Senior Constable Ray Gavin at Stanhope was Senior Constable Harry Hoskin, transferring from Newstead near Castlemaine. An early assignment was getting down to business in the local pennant bowls team as a new recruit. At Rushworth the little old timber police station was removed by truck to
Risstrom’s timber mills
Risstrom is one of the family names synonymous with the timber industry in Rushworth. Without going into too much detail on family history, because the story is well documented elsewhere, the progenitor of the family in Australia, Eric Ollov Risstrom, emigrated from Sweden. He and his wife Mary came to
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September 18, 2025
Have you planted your natives yet?
We at the Goulburn Valley tree group Tatura, there is still time to plant out your native vegetation and we are still currently open for sales on Tuesday mornings. We have a good range of eucalypts including the popular red gum, a great tree for those wet corners in your
A visitor’s cornbread
Don’t you love visitors that arrive bearing something they’ve baked for you to try? I hadn’t even met Erica, but she arrived at our door with a plate of her home-made cornbread. I had to admit that I knew nothing about cornbread, so after I’d taste