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Young entrepreneur’s worm wee works wonders
AT THE back of Wyatt Muhling’s garden, just behind the cubby house, stands a large black tub filled with compost and worms. It may seem…
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Funding boost to biosecurity risk detection capabilities
THE Department of Agriculture has promised a multi-million-dollar investment to boost Australia’s biosecurity detection capabilities. Around $5 million will be spent over the coming year…
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Worm juice rocket fuel for gardens
WORM wee, worm juice or worm tea is a liquid concentrate from worm compost. It’s an incredibly rich liquid fertilizer that provides a natural and…
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Soaring costs put pressure on primary producers
RISING costs are placing enormous pressure on farmers as energy prices push up the cost of farm inputs. Ray Taylor of Taylor Family Produce at Kalbar…
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Growing bonds strengthen Fassifern’s family club
WITH Father’s Day on Sunday, supporters of the Fassifern Bombers Rugby League Club have an added reason to celebrate. The proud Harrisville-based club features a…
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Major housing estate proposed for Harrisville
A LARGE scale housing estate is planned for Harrisville by a subsidiary of a leading Queensland developer. The 95-lot rural residential subdivision, if approved, is…
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A Vietnam Veteran Investigates Grandad’s Wars
THE Irish Civil War of the 1920s is not the sort of thing you’d think would be remembered by a Vietnam veteran. Nor World War…
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The Beauty of Life – Genius Loci
The landscape is in me and I am in the landscape. —Australian painter John Olsen ALFRED, Lord Tennyson, in his dramatic monologue Ulysses has the…
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Painting a brighter future for an old church
A DUO of projects completed and it’s straight onto planning the next one … it’s the often repeated story of heritage restoration. Rosevale’s St Patrick’s…
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Yes Minister – More than self-control – Rev Bruce Raymond, Fassifern Uniting Church
DURING a holiday in New Zealand some time ago, visiting our daughter and her family, we watched a television program featuring ‘the Dunedin Study’. This…
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Peeling back the layers of generational onion farming
WEDGED between looming mountain ranges are 500 acres of land that has belonged to the Stokes family for four generations. It is there that Stokes…
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Fassifern Police
Boonah Neighbourhood Watch During Road Safety week the local Neighbourhood Watch conducted a raffle in High Street, Boonah last Thursday and Friday. As well as…
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