The Local Issue 195, August 31, 2020

August 31, 2020 Issue 195

The Local - The Heart of the Highlands

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Front page: Fences are just a part of a new overlay being considered for a 500 metre radius around the Daylesford Material Recycling Centre. Our cartoonist Glenn Robinson reckon if it goes ahead the fences will be big enough to see from space. Read the story by Kevin Childs on page 7.)

August 31, 2020 Issue 195

The Local is a weekly community publication covering the Central Highlands. The next edition is out on Monday, September 7, 2020.

Or online on Sunday, September 6 at www.tlnews.com.au Space bookings: Wednesday, September 2 Copy deadline: Thursday, September 3 Editorial deadline: Thursday, September 3 Managing editor | Donna Kelly General manager | Kyle Barnes

Image: Glenn Robinson

Sub-editors | Nick Bunning and Lindsay Smith

The Local - The Heart of the Highlands

Writers | Kevin Childs, Kate Taylor, Tony Sawrey, Peter Young and Donna Kelly Photographers | Kyle Barnes and David White Graphic designer & HLH coordinator | Dianne Caithness

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Contributors: Glen Heyne (gardening), Indre Kisonas (design), Tanya Loos (nature), Glenn Robinson (cartoons) and Matthew Richardson (money) Accounts | Julie Hanson Delivery | Tony Sawrey

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Local Lines The Old Actress

She danced on the stage of life, she sang in the spotlight and cried in the wings.

Comedy, tragedy and drama were hers, and sweet romance too came to sing.

Content with a supporting role, she let the leading man shine.

Family and friends were there to prompt when she forgot a line.

“I’ve loved every part I have played,” she says, “some easy, some hard, few regrets.

The theatre of life has been good to me, and the third act has gifts for me yet”.

When the music of life stops playing, her daughter, a star of renown, Has promised a standing ovation, when the final curtain comes down.

- Irene Mooney Irene Mooney was born in Scotland, and now lives in Daylesford. In her eighty-second year she is writing her memoir, which she is thinking of calling “Just getting the hang of it when it’s nearly time to go!”

Poems for Local Lines come predominantly from a group of poets. However, other locals who would like a poem considered for publication can contact Bill Wootton - cottlesbreedge@gmail.com

Hello from ChillOut! ChillOut has joined forces with Thorne Harbour Country to provide some COVID packs for regional and rural LGTBIQ community members.

The packs have reusable masks, a ChillOut drink cosy, up-to-date DHHS safety information about staying COVID safe, and a little treat just to say "hello".

ChillOut director Michele Bauer, pictured above left, with Claudia Validum from Thorne Harbour Country, said ChillOut just wanted the community to know they were thinking about them and hoping they were staying well.

"And it's always nice to receive something in the mail."

Email your address to info@chillout.com.au or send a message via FB to either organisation for your free pack. Stay safe!

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Trentham Aged Care - Legends of Lockdown

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HE nursing staff and residents of Central Highlands Rural Health's Trentham Aged Care campus have been nominated as legends of lockdown by manager of nursing Paul Hilder.

Mr Hilder said the residents had been "extremely stoic and resilient in these trying times" adapting to Zoom and window visits in order to protect themselves from COVID-19.

With the region in Stage 3 lockdown residents are currently unable to leave the facility.

Mr Hilder said staff were working with personal protective equipment which included masks, goggles, faceshields, gowns and gloves, which were hot and cumbersome to work in.

"It is a physically challenging role at the best of times without the additional impost of extra protection.

"The nursing role also requires the individual to assist the resident with all the activities of daily living. And the lifestyle team has been extremely busy in ensuring our residents' days are full of activities and things to do to ensure the residents' days are busy and full of things to keep their minds occupied.

"Staff and residents will get a real boost by knowing they have the support of the Trentham community in these challenging times."

Pictured Brooke, left, and Ngawai right, with resident, Mrs Jill Nash

Recognising our Legends of Lockdown

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O YOU know a Legend of Lockdown? They don't need a cape but they do need to have gone above and beyond.

The Local would like to recognise those people. Maybe they have served hundreds of meals to people in need, perhaps they have knitted warm clothing to keep others warm or perhaps it's just a neighbour who has helped deliver groceries to your front door?

Maybe it's a healthcare worker on the front line, someone who has set up a community helpline or a person who has kept the community informed.

And everyone has enough going on, so we want to keep it simple. Just email your legend along with 50-100 words about what they have done to enter legend status.

We also need their contact number - some people don't like surprises.

We will keep the entries happening until September 14, so there is plenty of time to have a think about who has helped get you, or others, through this extraordinary time.

If lockdown lifts by then, and let's all hope it does, we are hoping to have a ceremony to say thanks! If we are still socially distancing then we will publish names and details in editions of The Local.

Details:

What: Legends of Lockdown Why: Because we should recognise goodness What: Your legend's name, contact and 50-100 words about them When: By September 14 (extended to the end of lockdown) Email: donna@tlnews.com.au

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To the Woodend community, with love...

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ELLO. My name is Aubrey, and I would like to tell you a story. It is an awesome story about kindness. I am learning to read, but can’t write yet, so I have asked my Mama to share this story with you.

My Mama, Dada and I moved to Woodend last year. We’d had a really challenging few years in Melbourne and my Mama and Dada decided to act on their dream and move to Woodend. We came up here and fell in love with this very special town straight away. I think it is actually a magical, fairytale place.

My Dada has some health stuff, which I won’t bore you with. But it meant I never went to childcare and only started four-year-old kindergarten this year. Then this pesky virus appeared and Dada’s hospital said that we actually couldn’t go anywhere, which is how it’s been for us since March. I couldn’t go to kinder anymore!

That made me really sad because kinder in the Macedon Ranges was the best thing ever, especially all the wonderful friends I was making.

Mama and Dada had only just started making friends too. But each of those people, though we didn’t know them so well, reached out to us anyway at this strange time, doing everything they could to help. One of those people was Mel. Mel’s boss is God. My family isn’t religious, but Mel said she didn’t mind at all, we are now Woodenders and that’s all that matters.

Mel did lots for us, bringing food with a sunshine smile on the side. One day she asked Mama if there was anything else she could do. Mama explained I would soon be five, maybe Mel could help bring some happiness to my birthday in isolation?

So Mel reached out to Woodend. And Woodend reached out to me for my birthday in the most amazing way! So many people I have never even met donated the most beautiful, awesome gifts. Mel and her Ray (of Sunshine) brought them to our front verandah and we couldn’t speak. Mama cried and Dada smiled and shook his head. I have so much to play with now, to read, create, enjoy - I could stay home with my Mama and Dada a whole year and still be playing with my presents.

Even though I couldn’t go anywhere, I had the best birthday ever. And it is all because of you.

You have given me the best story about kindness my family could ever tell and will share always.

Mama says that if you leap, the net will appear. You have all made this true. She also says it takes a village to raise a child, and to keep a loving family just that.

Thank you so much, Woodend. We are so lovingly proud to be a member of your community. Please know that your kindness has made such a huge difference to this little family’s life, and outlook.

And when you see a little person with his Mama and Dada on the Five Mile Creek track with huge happiness in his eyes and smile, please know that’s me, and that joy comes from you. You put it there, in the three of us. We hope that sharing with you the story of kindness you wrote for us gives some of that joy back to you too.

Love always, Aubrey (and his Mama and Dada) x

* Mel is Reverend Melissa Clark from the Woodend Anglican Parish **Aubrey's parents are Caitlin and Michael - both of whom had wanted to move to Woodend before they even met, and are now living their dream together (albeit locked down for now). The family is so appreciative of the Woodend community for not only making young Aubrey's birthday so special, but for its ongoing support as they remain in isolation due to health issues.

They really wanted the chance to share this beautifully positive story "written" for them by the people of Woodend.

"Mama says that if you leap, the net will appear. You have all made this true. She also says it takes a village to raise a child, and to keep a loving family just that."

- Aubrey, 5

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New, open A report for council

NEW report aimed at improving openness, transparency and accountability regarding projects is now being presented to Hepburn Shire Council each quarter.

CEO Evan King said the report outlined the projects under way, their budget and notes on progress and was available for anyone in the community to see.

"We know the community has an appetite for more information about how Council is working for the community and delivering on projects."

The report details all the projects, both operational and capital expenditure, their forecast budget and the spend to date.

Mr King said the report takes the legislative reporting requirements a step further.

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"Capital works are our infrastructure projects like roads, bridges, facilities and footpaths. Operational projects are usually non-construction and include the development of strategies.

"This report shows 136 capital projects and 75 operational projects for the 2019/20 financial year, a significant amount for a council of our size."

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Inspiring women sought

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O YOU know an inspiring woman from Hepburn Shire?

International Women’s Day is celebrated across the world on March 8 each year. The purpose of the day is to recognise women and their achievements.

In 2005, the Heather Mutimer (pictured below) Honour Roll was established to pay tribute to women in the Hepburn Shire whose contributions, courage and examples have led to significant social change for women.

Each year as part of International Women’s Day, successful inductees are announced and added to the honour roll.

The roll provides a forum to acknowledge women who have made a difference in the shire. By acknowledging these women, past and present, they become role models for generations to come.

Nominations close on October 5.

Successful inductees will be announced at a civic function celebrating International Women’s Day in March next year.

Link: www.hepburn.vic.gov.au/ womens-honour-roll/

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Australia's Best Pie at Kyneton!

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YNETON'S Country Cob Bakery has done a hat trick, taking out the Baking Association of Australia's Best Pie for the third year in a row.

The winning pie was the pepper beef pie.

The popular bakery also won Australia's Best Plain Beef Pie, Australia's Best Gourmet Pie barbeque pork and quail egg, Australia's Best Flavour Beef Pie - pepper beef, and Australia's Best Vegetarian/Vegan Pie - curry, cauliflower, lentil and chickpea. All up a total of 48 medals for 2020!

Bakery owner is Chan Khun, who migrated to Australia from Cambodia in 2004.

"We were very, very excited to win the third time in a row. We were confident with our product but you just never know what will be the judges' choice.

"We have had quite a few people coming to say congratulations, and lots of phone calls and emails."

And Chan's favourite pie? Like any good Aussie, the classic plain meat pie, of course.

Round two: People v. council over load of rubbish

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She said the row blew up because the council was not meeting EPA guidelines on risk assessment of its transfer stations.

It also failed to complete comply due diligence in response to the two-year-old This explanation by Mayor Cr Licia Kokocinski follows an outcry by Grampians Central West Waste and Resource Recovery Implementation Plan on land residents over proposed tough new laws which they say already caused the sale of a use, she said. block of land to fail almost at the last minute.

The residents also believe the council did not fully assess the effects on them.

“People have been wanting a buffer zone for years,” Cr Kokocinski told The Local.

“There is no proof of danger,” Ms Tobias said. “What is happening is causing a lot “Now they have got one.” of anxiety.”

She said risks from an old waste site at the officially titled Material Recovery Eighty submissions have gone to the council, she said, with more coming from Facility area include fire from methane gas or harm to people’s health from polluted the 100 or so residents in the area. water.

“There is a compelling argument that if this continues the process could take a “The council would be sued to the eyeballs if this happened,” she said. “We are year or more to take effect.” acutely conscious of that.”

She said the residents want a collaborative process that balances the need to meet A great irony in this ruckus is that it was a residents’ group in the area, Friends of ministerial and EPA requirements for transfer stations, against the need to act in the Ajax Road, which drew the council’s attention to the 500-metre buffer, found in the Environment Protection Act guidelines. Now a number of residents want it scrapped interests of all Victorians, as required by the Planning and Environment Act. “We want the council to complete the risk assessment work required by the EPA and continue to lobby the council before its last meeting this month until a new to inform the waste management strategy review, which in turn would then inform council is elected.

Waste fires have caused enormous damage in Melbourne, with two underground appropriate responses…”

These would include a due diligence study according to law and the residents’ fires sending out what was said to be a toxic chemical smell as they burnt for at least perspectives. three months in a Sunshine landfill. The Ajax Road landfill closed 16 years ago.

Practical solutions could be found and implemented without a drawn-out Helen Tobias, who speaks for the residents, concedes that it is possible that gas bureaucratic process. may leak but a proper study needed to be done before any drastic steps were taken.

“We are not trying to be difficult,” Ms Tobias said. “We need to have a great Residential building is banned and a permit will be needed to put up a fence waste management strategy and manage it well.” within the Ajax Road zone.

She added that a proposal was presented to Crs Redwood and Kokocinski and Fences have to be solid and at least 1.5 metres high or half transparent with screen landscaping. Building is banned in the zone, as are balconies and private open spaces Bruce Lucas, director Infrastructure and Development Services, and this would facing the facility. Sub-divisions may only be a hectare and fresh access is banned. But be followed by talks with CEO Evan King to try to get his support in taking this recommendation to the council. with no new residential buildings allowed, probably not something many will do.

A State Government inquiry found that high-risk facilities endanger surrounding areas and had to be separated from existing or future urban areas.

Massive flaws in laws around such facilities were found in a study last year for the Words: Kevin Childs Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning.

Ms Tobias painted a grim picture of the former tip where household refuse was dumped in a big open shed, stinking out the surroundings for two or three days before a semi-trailer took it, sometimes at 3am. Birds dropped refuse into neighbouring properties.

EAR of being sued is a central reason behind the Hepburn Shire Council introducing a 500-metre zone around its old tip in Ajax Road.

The tail of three dogs

Main image, the late, great Gizmo, left, and Scout, inset, new best friends Joey and Scout

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Over the years, Emma Tomkins from Hepburn Veterinary Clinic did a superb job helping us keep Gizmo Woodend.

We’d gone into Woodend one Saturday to shop. We’d been talking about finding happy, but he wasn’t a robust dog and in 2016 we lost a companion for our dog Gizmo - you know; a pet, for our dog. We wandered into him; he was in terrible pain the pet store and there she was: bright, energetic and friendly - just what you want from pancreatitis. Even now, from a sales clerk. The puppy was fine too. We did no research, asked no questions, I am crying as I type this, just said, “we’ll have her” (the puppy). remembering how Carol held Turns out her breed tends to be smart and stubborn, which makes them difficult him in her arms while Emma to train - a month of puppy school in Newstead confirmed this to be true. gently administered the final Carol and I have form in this spur-of-the moment pet buying. injection.

In 2001 we’d moved into our home in Wheatsheaf, making the transition from Scout seemed to be in holiday-house owners to full-time residents. shock without him for a That same year we attended the Bendigo Heritage Wine Festival, in which local while but we tried to compensate with daily walks around the track at the Glenlyon winemakers set up inside some of the city’s beautiful old buildings and visitors walk recreation reserve. through the streets enjoying the delights of the region. Passing Clouds winery had In 2018 we decided to move back to California, after more than 30 years in their tasting in one of the old trams as it rattled around the town - fantastic!

Australia. My parents are quite old now, and it’s time for me to step up and be here There were four of us and we’d become well acquainted with the region’s wines. for them.

While walking to our next destination, we stopped to look in the window of a pet Scout flew here in a large, custom-built crate, and soon settled into her new life, shop - see the pattern emerging? where the dogs have funny accents, pronouncing the hard “R” in bark.

The puppy in the front window looked as if he’d been groomed using fingernail We’ve been here more than two years. Scout is 17 and has slowed considerably. clippers. He had gooey eyes, upright ears and a crooked face. He captured our hearts Her eyesight is poor - she has cataracts - and her hearing is greatly diminished. She in an instant, although we resisted his charms and continued our wine tasting. sleeps 18 hours a day. Two weeks ago she had a sick spell and had trouble standing, But we didn’t forget him. One of our wine-tasting friends pestered us about him but she came good. Then, last week, she was again sick and shaking, and seemed to be the remainder of the day and well into the night. So, the next morning, we drove having some pain. back to Bendigo and bought the dog.

We’ve been fortunate to find a good vet here, so we took Scout to see her - her He hadn’t been well cared for in the pet shop. Apart from the miserable grooming, he hadn’t been fed properly. He was tiny, sitting easily in the cupped palms name is Nina. We were prepared for this to be Scout’s time. But Nina examined Scout, caressed and cuddled her, and declared that her heart and lungs remain strong of two hands. His teeth were bad and his eyes were infected. But he had a magical - she comes from good Aussie stock, after all. Nina devised a strict diet for Scout and personality and, with those funny ears, we immediately knew his name was Gizmo, sent her home. from a character in the Gremlins movie.

So now Scout has deposited a tidy package on the lawn and is romping around At the time, Carol and I were commuting to Melbourne, via V/Line from the yard - it always makes her feel good to leave one of these fragrant piles. Last Kyneton, for work, five days a week, and we felt bad leaving Gizmo home alone for year we bought a puppy for Scout - her name is Joey, because she looked like a baby that many hours a day. Which is where Scout enters the story.

We cleaned up Gizmo and put him on a healthy diet - he ate like a pig but never kangaroo when we first brought her home. She and Scout play, groom each others’ ears, and are great mates. grew much bigger than a mid-size chihuahua. He was well-mannered, had a lion’s Thus, life goes on, in California. heart, but was frail. Scout was a Jack Russell through and through: strong, fast, wiry, stubborn; but Gizmo ruled her pack, and they made a great team.

E VERY nearly lost our Scout last week.

Scout is a smooth-haired Jack Russell terrier. She came into our lives in 2003 - she was a puppy when we bought her in a pet shop in

Words: Jeff Glorfeld (An Aussie in America)

Real estate records smashed by keen buyers

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ELBOURNE’S top end is moving to Central Victoria, according to Kim McQueen of McQueen Broadhurst real estate.

And they are looking for special trophy properties rather than choosing specific townships or regions.

Ms McQueen said her company had seen some amazing sales of properties over the past few months with more properties coming up.

She said she had broken her own regional sales record two weeks ago at 9 Hill Street in Clunes when it sold for $2.68 million.

And then smashed that again just last week with a property, not even being marketed, within 15 minutes of the goldrush town.

“With Hill Street we did a very beautiful marketing campaign which was very high end and vast-reaching which started less than a week before stage four lockdown began and sold it in that first week.

“With the second one it was again sold in the middle of the pandemic and stage four lockdown to the same type of buyers as Hill Street. Very professional, incredibly busy, high-end buyers who want something very special. The second property went to people who didn’t even have this area on their radar but we had built a relationship with them and were able to sell if off-market, very quietly and very confidentially.

Happy days for everyone.”

Ms McQueen said she had a lot of experience selling high-end properties through regional Victoria and Australia, and buyers were not looking for a township but a special property.

“These properties are special and unique in that they very much stand alone when we price them. We don’t think about what sold in the town or region because there is going to be nothing like it around. We are specialists in this area of sales. The buyers are looking for an attractive region and usually within a drive to restaurants and cafes, but it is about the property itself. I call it a compound, they drive in the gate, close the gate behind them and just enjoy this incredible world they have entered.

“These buyers tend to be affluent Melbourne executives and business owners and they also appreciate the history behind a lot of these properties. For example, Hill Street was a very historic property and the owners had renovated to a level that is on par with any of the best properties I have sold in Toorak. Our buyers are very mindful of that, so whether it be Clunes or Daylesford or Kyneton, wherever it is, is a little bit irrelevant. They are looking for the ideal property rather than what is around it.”

Ms McQueen said some recent sales included Stone and Straw on the Midland Highway just out of Daylesford for $1.55 million – in one week. Twenty-seven acres in Drummond with a three-bedroom house for $1.265 million – when the asking price was $1 million to $1.1 million, and an older-style house on an acre at Kyneton for $1.7 million.

“I know everyone is sick of reading about it but what we are seeing at the moment really is unprecedented. We are selling month-on-month, each time we think we can't sell any more and the next month we surpass it. It really is quite amazing.

“And it is definitely families and older couples coming up from Melbourne to Central Victoria. They see it as a great place to raise their kids and grandchildren and something they have always dreamed of but never been able to do because they have been working five days a week in banking or Collins Street.

“Now they are working from home and people have more options and choice to conduct their business from home or maybe commute two days a week, that sort of thing. It’s just incredible.”

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This is the second in a series of features on what's happening with real estate in the Central Highlands.

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With the proposed DD06 overlays for Daylesford one key aspect is using fencing to protect residents from a view of the transfer station. This is what the The image below is the view when you turn around council consultant advised during a recent Zoom on same spot with distant views to Maldon and the meeting. mountains. Would our amenity be improved by a view

Keep it clean Once lockdown restrictions are lifted and we can once again sit down in our favourite cafe to a hot drink and piece of cake, I would like to think that establishments will continue to adhere to those strict standards of hygiene that were enforced during the COVID crisis and that those standards will now become an important ritual before seating patrons.

Before COVID, how often have we been less than happy with the cleanliness of a cafe table, often smeared with the remnants left behind by the previous patrons... sticky honey blobs, pastry crumbs, tomato sauce, bits of salad etc etc.

How often have we searched our pockets for a tissue or hanky to give it a quick once-over ourselves when we observe that staff are flat-strapped or, we may just feel it impolite to ask.

How often over the years have we asked for a dirty table to be wiped down, only to be hurriedly done so The image below is the view from our back balcony with a sorry-looking dish-rag hastily grabbed from the directly towards the transfer station. It is blocked by cafe kitchen sink and then be left with a slimy, slippery bush and trees. So this would be banned under DD06 as wet table surface that we...once again...search our no balconies or outdoor areas allowed to face the site. pockets for a tissue or use their paper serviettes to wipe it Most have views of Wombat Hill, downtown dry ourselves.

Daylesford or else southern views towards Ballan or of We all need to take more care of each other, now the Hepburn State Park. more than ever before.

There is no exemption in DD06 for these properties It is not a big ask to expect a cleared and sanitised to build anything but a 1.5 metre solid fence. Really? table upon entry....not always easy for busy staff when Everyone in these streets will be glad to pay for a 1.5m patrons often grab their own table. fence that will block their view of the transfer station But if we do not expect, we may not always get. Like even when they don’t have a view as it is up to two hills any behaviour, delivery of responsible hygiene must be and gullies away? constantly reinforced for it to become second nature...for These photos say more than words and are taken on If you do want to block our balcony view, a fence all our sakes. our land. The left side of the image, above, is what is 1.5m is not high enough, it will need to be about 20 proposed, a 1.5m fence and the right is the vision toward metres high to save us from this horrid view. These the transfer site that the consultant and council planners blanket overlay fences are a reason to cancel DD06.

- Name and address supplied are working to protect us from.

Photo of the nicknamed ‘Great Wall of Daylesford’ - Name and address supplied on the Ajax Road property, above right, shows the effect Letters and musings are always welcome. Keep of a 1.5m fence recently built in the proposed overlay them shortish and to the point. Any addressed zone.

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Most properties (90 to 95 per cent) in the overlay of six or seven times 1.5m high fences in this shot? No. zone have no view of the transfer station at all. Homes and land in Cobblers Lane, West Street, Morris Street, Rings Road, Tipperary Springs Road, Perrins Street, Fulcher Street, etc, have zero view of the transfer station.

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Once the young seedlings have reached a manageable size, with sturdy stems, there are several courses of action. Those sown directly into the garden bed will need little attention for now, except for thinning out tight clusters and using the discards to fill any gaps where seeds may have failed. And, of course, remove any weeds.

Don’t allow the beds to dry out, water them regularly with a fine mist spray to avoid disturbing their still-fragile roots.

Those sown into boxes or large pots will need to be planted out as soon as they are large and stem-strong enough to handle, either into individual pots, or directly into the garden bed. Most varieties will fare better in the garden after a time to really become established in a pot before facing the elements. Others more sturdy, such as onions, chives and most leaf greens such as cabbage, lettuce etc. prefer as little handling as possible.

When “pricking out” (an old nursery term) the seedlings from the seed box, try using an old kitchen fork to prise them apart and lift them from the soil to minimise damage to their roots.

I spent countless hours for many childhood years in our nursery potting shed transplanting literally millions of tomato, capsicum and other annuals from seed boxes into those little strawberry punnets. Just one of the many mind-numbing tasks - including the daily handwatering of several acres of potted plants. (In those days South Australian water restrictions forbade the Summer use of sprinklers). It all helped strengthen my resolve to choose another career path as soon as I was able.

Considering the short time the plants will spend in pots pre-planting, they needn’t be particularly large. In fact, they needn’t be pots in the traditional sense. Smaller seedlings could be put into egg cartons which can then be planted out in situ without further disturbing the roots.

In fact, there is really no need for pots at all, as you will see in next week's column, when I feature ways to create self-composting plant containers out of newspaper etc. A small hint, save up your toilet paper and paper towel inner tubes.

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Allow the plants to develop to the second- or third-leaf stage before going into the garden to give them plenty of time and minimise any chance of loss. Shade them on hot days until they are established or they could have their foliage burnt. Although I think with the way the season is moving, they might need the protection from frost.

One way to protect young seedlings is to spread a 2cm layer of well-rotted compost as a mulch along each row. Take care though to keep the mulch away from each seedling or it may rot and die. If they are actually planted out during the hotter months they could be protected by covering the bed with shade cloth, supported by garden stakes, during the hottest hours. But that hopefully won’t be for some months yet.

Mossy dish gardens

The rainy winter months have brought on masses of verdant moss on the rocky outcrops in our gardens - and elsewhere, rekindling my interest in terrariums and similar garden-type projects, including the mossy lawn dish garden (pictured above).

All that’s needed apart from moss is a shallow dish, a few stones and a 2-3cm layer of peat moss or something similar, and a little imagination.

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By Donna Kelly

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AM a bit perplexed. So nothing too unusual for me. I wonder about a lot of things.

Like how the Masked Singer production people ended up with COVID? I mean, they were all wearing masks long before the rest of us. And if you thought you had gone to a lot of trouble making sure your mask was 3-ply, check out their handiwork. Anyway, I wish them all well, although if the show never comes back, that's OK too.

And then I was watching the deputy chief medical officer of Australia, Professor Michael Kidd, on television this morning. Nice enough bloke but he's got nothing on another national deputy Dr Nick Coatsworth or Victoria's own chief health officer Brett Sutton. Did you know you can buy a Brett Sutton bedspread, join in with the Sutton fans on Twitter, or become a “Suttonette” and like the Brett Sutton is HOT Facebook page. I wonder if there is medical officer rivalry? Like, does Michael look at Brett and say, like the American girls about their cousin who is about to arrive at the house in Love Actually - "And he's the good looking one..."

But mostly this week I have been wondering why Hepburn Shire Council says anyone living within a 500-metre radius of the Daylesford tip - sorry Material Recycling Centre - can only build a fence if it is at least 1.5 metres high and solid, or at least 50 per solid, with screening.

In our story this edition by Kevin Childs, Mayor Licia Kokocinski said the council is worried about being sued because of the danger of fire from methane gas or harm to people’s health from polluted water. It might just be about recycling now, but it was a landfill site for many years.

But how does a whopping big fence help? Is it a containment fence? And is it like bulkheads in a ship - you know the ones that failed in the Titanic to keep water out. They just filled up, one by one, until the thing sank. Are the fences the last line of defence for a fire or, worse still, a methane explosion? And will it work or is the 500-metre buffer zone our very own Titanic? (Didn't you love Shelley Winters although she would probably be fat-shamed now. Bloody social media.)

Maybe, like most shires and councils, it's time to bite the bullet, clean up the site and move the tip, sorry material recycling facility, to another place, a little further from a residential area. I know, I know, most of the residents who built there knew there was a tip there. Sorry, MRF! And probably got some pretty cheap land into the bargain. But, the only way they bought land and built there, was with council approval.

Once again, I don't know the answer, and I know the council is probably pretty cash-strapped what with The Rex and everything. But can you really contain methane fires and potentially contaminated water with a few fences?

Quick fence story. I grew up in Frankston on a nice leafy property with a lovely high timber fence. Maybe two metres or six feet in the old measurements. It made you feel quite safe inside. No-one could see in and you couldn't see out. As a kid it was quite like a little fortress in the suburbs.

I remember sunbaking on the lawn one day, maybe 12 years old, and was having such a nice time I broke into song. Yeah, they can't see you but they can hear you, and I remember being mortified as someone yelled, over that fence, "shut the f... up".

Haven't sung in public since which is probably a good thing. Just sayin'...

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Kyle’s Rant

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HIS week's rant is bought to you by the letter D for dumb and the letter C for conspiracy, and it is at that level of education (Sesame Street) that we perhaps need to roll out information about a vaccine that does not even exist yet.

If it is not bad enough that we have gone through our sock drawers 500 times this year to identify mismatched thread-bare socks in order to give us purpose during the lockdown, now the conspiracy nufties want to ensure there is enough doubt floating around out there so when the vaccine comes it won’t have the uptake we need as a community for full effectiveness.

I spoke to a relative the other day, and they started to sound me out as to my stance on whether the vaccine would have a microchip in it and wasn’t it "coincidental" that the 5G was getting rolled out at the same time.

What the hell? They don't need to worry about a microchip. If someone from the government wants to know where I have been, who I have seen or even what I am looking at on TV or the computer, they are welcome and had better strap themselves in for the wild ride that is my life. It would read something like this.

Daily report on Kyle Barnes, Glenlyon "7.00am - He got a cup of tea and put the dishes into the dishwasher, noticing that Donna snuck in a sneaky ice-cream after he went to bed.

7.30am - He watched Sunrise to see if he had won the Cashcow. This is a little strange after years of watching Channel 9, why has he suddenly changed? Investigate.

8.30am - He went to the office at TL HQ, unfortunately it is located so close to the Telstra tower there is no signal, so not sure what he got up to.

12.00pm - Lunch and exercise.

5.30 pm - We may have something. He is on the balcony feeding the birds.

Some sort of spy-code here, or he has become a madman. He refers to one particular plump, suspicious-looking magpie as Uncle Bulgaria. Maybe he is referring to the Balkan nation. Investigate.

6.30pm - Wine and TV followed by a light dinner.

9.30pm - Bed. So you see, there is absolutely nothing to see here. Besides if “they” wanted location information or to see who I talked to or what I watched, surely all that intel is already being projected around the place via my smartphone? I call bovine excrement on the whole microchip conspiracy theory.

Vaccine rant over… (Ed's note: I knew I should have thrown that wrapper out.)

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The pork belly is then cooked about one minute on each side before reducing the OTS of restaurants have pivoted over the past few months, offering takeaways and deliveries, but Jodi Flockhart at Sault has come up with heat and then adding the hock glaze to the pan. Then it's just a matter of basting the pork until the glaze becomes sticky. a unique idea for our region - Sault @ Home.

It starts with an emailed order for either two or three courses, with the components, some ready to go, some needing a tiny amount of prep, then put together by head chef Hugh Maxwell and his team. You can then either pick up or ask for delivery. And then, best of all, you head to Sault's website and watch the video on how to create your dishes at home.

We chose three courses and the pick-up option - who would not want to drive out to Sault at Sailors Falls and take a few moments to enjoy its beautiful surrounds as the sun sets.

The menu is small but perfect. I chose the cured ocean trout with a green tomato and buttermilk sauce as my entree, followed by the barramundi fillet, spanner crab, nasturtium seeds, fennel and white bean skordalia for my main and the chocolate, rum, raisin and walnut for dessert.

Kyle, who loves his meat, opted for the pork belly with sage, carrots and a hock glaze for entree, the eye fillet with bresaola, onions, horseradish, pickled garlic and jus for mains and the Holy Goat "La Luna" lavender scone with Sault honeycomb.

Oh, don't forget the house-baked ricotta whey sourdough bread with confit garlic butter and the Sault garden salad with a green tomato dressing.

Back home, we whacked the oven onto 180 degrees Celsius, opened a bottle of chardonnay, did the "cheers", watched the first run-through of the video featuring Hugh and Carmen Burns and then put together all the ingredients for our first courses on the island bench. Then I went hunting through our crockery to try and find something inspiring for plating up. (Note to self, need to shop one day...)

Finally, after a glass of wine, we started on our entrees - and it was fun. Mine was easy, no cooking, just beautiful strips of 12-hour cured ocean trout placed on the plate with the buttermilk, green tomato and fennel oil emulsion neatly spooned over the top and then decorated with squid ink tapioca, trout roe, sea grapes, broadbean flowers and salty pigface leaves. I didn't have tweezers for the fiddly bits but chopsticks were the perfect swap. And every mouthful was an explosion of taste and texture.

Kyle's was a bit more involved, but still easy. The pork belly had already been cooked for 16 hours, he just had to bring a frying pan to a medium heat then add about 30ml of olive oil.

Once that's done, you do a nice smear with the carrot puree on a plate, add the pork, layer the pickled carrots over the top and then finish off with the carrot tops and the sage and pork crackle crumb.

Again, delicious. The pork belly has very little fat and is just so tender - with the crunch coming from the pickled carrots and the crumb. I won't go into details for the rest of the meal, you get the picture, and you can get the videos by heading to www.sault.com.au It was a great way to spend a Friday night with some delicious food, a few laughs, well a lot of laughs, and some kitchen inspiration.

Jodi said the Sault @ Home idea really came from her husband Damien Aylward after they saw Melbourne restaurants doing similar things.

"They are places we adore and we thought why can't we give it a go in regional Victoria. We are cutting edge up here with our produce so Damien broached the idea with Hugh. Then Damien and I decided to utilise our background in acting for the videos and because we have been doing remote auditions as a family, Damien has learned to edit and splice videos, so we could make it look good and easy to watch, not clunky.

"We made it personal with our introductions to each video and it is really our way of people being able to reach into Sault, and for us to reach out to them at home.

People love being in our kitchen and seeing the process behind the creation of dishes."

Jodi said she was then approached by staff member Matt Phillips, who had a permit to travel from Melbourne to continue working in the produce store, who offered to deliver where permissable to locked-down Melburnians. So every Friday and Saturday Matt heads down to Melbourne with eskies loaded with local produce to provide a taste of the region.

"Matt didn't have to do that but we are so lucky to have the team around us that we do. We are doing all we can to keep up morale and keep everyone upbeat - even holding fortnghtly working bees in our kitchen garden."

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While a few clients had closed their rental properties, meaning their gardens were no longer a priority, Jesse said he hoped that after lockdown was lifted, they would come back to him.

"We have seen what happens when you can actually travel around the country again, how quickly Daylesford gets completely booked out. And if people can't travel overseas we are very well placed tourism-wise.

"But then, who knows, longer term if there is an economic downturn or recession whether people will want to pay for a gardener - that will just play out down the track but in the short term I have felt very lucky in that respect."

Jesse said Spring was obviously his busiest time, with the growth spurt seeing him flat out every year but Winter also kept him busy with fruit tree pruning.

"There's always stuff to do and I enjoy it although it is pretty physical work and does take its toll on the body.

"But I also do a bit of design work. The maintenance is my bread and butter and the design work is what I really love and find the most rewarding. It's great to have that balance."

Jesse said after 20 years in the industry he had seen many trends like the explosion of interest in natives. He worked at the renowned Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria's Cranbourne Gardens so knows his stuff.

Perennials are also coming back into fashion, which he thinks is a good thing, and with COVID-19 almost everyone is now creating their own vegie patch.

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