Cooks Column
Pumpkin Soup
Pumpkin and apples aplenty? Put them together for this warming soup.
Victoria Arnel
Garden Hints & Tips
It’s a good time to get your native plants in the ground
The ground is wet and the days short. It’s good timing to get your native plants in the ground so the root system has time to establish in readiness for a flush of growth in spring. Our stock supply is moving fast with many species already sold out. There
Kids Corner
Tartan
Hey Kids! We are now in the midst of winter. Brrrr. In this edition of the Waranga News we are looking at a warm fabric that first appeared long ago in the highlands of Scotland - tartan. Read all about this interesting textile and then have a go at the Wordsearch!
Cooks Column
Roast potatoes - everyone’s favourite?
I can remember walking into a neighbour’s kitchen, many years ago, to see her carefully manoeurvering a large roasting pan of hot dripping out of her oven, ready to put her potatoes in for roasting. At the time, I’d already gone ‘healthy’ so was rather shocked by her
Garden Hints & Tips
Let’s do an autopsy!
I need to do a plant autopsy! The victim was a well established grevillea. It was a needle leaf variety so there were no warning signs of droopy leaves.
On the Brink
The bottleneck effect
By Neil Laurie
History
Rushworth Brothers-In-Arms
Rushworth brothers Alan and Bruce Brown both served our country overseas in World War II.
Garden Hints & Tips
Choose native plants for containers
The warmer days bring the opportunity to spruce up your garden, and to give a little TLC to tired looking pot plants and hanging baskets.
Garden Hints & Tips
Jobs, jobs and jobs!
Without a doubt the wetter season has been good for the garden, but combined with the ending of the year, it has meant that there is a long list of jobs to do in the garden and too little time to do them.
Waranga Dreaming
48. Two legal systems
The previous story talked about a gathering of Kulin Nation people near Melbourne to administer justice in a murder case. In 1844, the new settlement of Melbourne was less than 10 years old. At the time, present-day Victoria was part of the colony of New South Wales (the Port
Waranga Dreaming
42. Making a stone axe
The most important Aboriginal tools in pre-colonisation times were stone axes. Recent stories have talked about the use of greenstone in producing the axe heads. Locally, the stone was quarried on the Mt Camel range. Quarried axe-heads were then chipped on one side to make a sharp edge.
Waranga Dreaming
12. Summer on the river
Logically, you would expect that Aboriginal people would have retreated to the vicinity of the Campaspe and Goulburn Rivers during the summer. Access to a reliable supply of water and food resources would have been vital. This was the conclusion reached by Harry Parris when he was thinking about seasonal