For those who are feeling a bit “time poor” at the moment, we’ve posted a selected list of the Climate Zone 7 homes “open” for this year’s Sustainable House Day.
We’ll expand the list as time permits, but please pop over to sustainablehouseday.com to see what’s on offer - and remember to use the maps posted earlier to help you hunt for the homes in Climate Zone 7.
Have a great weekend!
Image: Radiata (Enduring Domain Architecture) via Sustainable House Day
Read MoreIn this and subsequent posts, I will outline what you need to know about acquiring and managing your solar electricity installation. This particular post concerns the use of optimisers in your installation.
Read MoreRenew’s Sustainable House Day 2020 kicks off tomorrow, Saturday 12 September. Are you ready?
Today we have a “map” to show you where to look for the “treasure”!
Have a great Sustainable House Day, everyone!
Image: N@elladee via Unsplash
Read MoreLast month, Veg Action hosted the Range’s first ever Master Chef style recipe competition: The Winter Veg Recipe Competition. Since the competition ended, we have been beating back requests for the recipes. So here, good reader, are the top 3. You’re Welcome.
Read MoreA recording of a MASH webinar on Solar Battery Systems on 1st September 2020
Read MoreVeg Action’s entertaining and very “real” cook-off, styled on Master Chef, was the final instalment of Macedon Ranges Winter Veg Recipe Challenge. Streamed live on facebook to over 2k viewers, the show involved three “celebrity” judges appraising three dishes and selecting a winner.
Read MoreMRSG is running a project that offers a range of sustainable home improvements to lower income households in the Macedon Ranges at no cost to the occupants.
Read MoreLearn about the animals and plants that call the Macedon Ranges home from the monthly series of podcasts produced by the Macedon Ranges Shire Council
Read MoreMRSG's Ron Glanville hosts a thoroughly accessible presentation on Climate Science in a recent event organised by Veterinarians for Climate Action
Read MoreImagine if we had the opportunity to follow the songlines of the traditional owners over this land. How much more we would deeply know and care. We would read the changing landscape, absorb the sensory experiences and observe the flora and fauna in their natural habitat. Walking is the most wonderful tactile connection to place of course but an antidote to a totally sensory devoid experience while achieving significant distance, is by cycling. Cycling gives us the opportunity to reconnect to this land.
Read MoreHave you been saving your toothbrushes and bread tags? Have you been wondering where all that stuff goes and what happens to it? Here’s some information about why the Waste Action Group has joined Terracycle’s recycling schemes.
Read MoreRenewable Energy Group member Barney Hearnden recently conducted some interesting research into the solar uptake of each postcode in the Macedon Ranges Shire. Find out how your postcode did.
Read MoreSomeone once told me when I had just moved to Woodend that, “tomatoes are a Melbourne thing”. Yet, I wasn’t deterred. Like many other home gardeners from Hobart to Darwin, I set myself a personal quest to get the most out of my tomato plants, in spite of the unpromising climate.
Read MoreLooking for an #isoproject in the kitchen? For those that have never made it, home made almond milk is delicious, creamy and easy to make.
Read MorePlanning your meals (including at least 3-4 vegetarian meals a week) and eating seasonally is a great way to reduce your food waste, and ensure that you are improving both the population’s health and planetary health. Here we list all the veg box suppliers in the Ranges that can help you eat more seasonal veg and get started in your meal planning journey.
Read MoreLet's take this stressful situation and turn into an opportunity to reset, get back to the basics and create some lasting healthy eating habits that are good for us, other animals and the earth. How do we get started, you ask? Well….
Read MoreReasons to be Cheerful, Part 1.
Read MoreSowing seed for the vegetable garden in April chiefly is limited to Broad Beans, Smooth Coated Shelling Peas, Summer Leeks, Greens for the Greenhouse and Bulbing Onions.
Read MoreI don’t need to tell you, Novel Coronavirus is changing the way we live and plan. There are no food shortages in Australia but we have endured distribution failures due to fear and panic which has led to food and other staples being bought up in greater than usual quantities. This has made us face the question of our food security seriously as individuals and a country for what for many of us is the first time.
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