The company is about to drill-test a portion of the prematurely closed Blackwood Goldfields, where economic depression, war and water combined to close.
THE ONE SOCIAL ENTERPRISE
Feel good about good eating and experience some Bendigo history while you re at it. Pepper Green Farm is a social enterprise edible garden, cafe and craft shop, employing people of varying abilities while connecting them to community. It inhabits the site of a former Chinese market garden from the gold rush era where there remains the oldest Chinese kiln outside Asia. Feast on great cakes and savoury baked goods and pick up a jar of house-made relish or a hand-crafted souvenir. See aag.org.au/peppergreen-farm/
THE ONE BAR
Stop by Wine Bank on View for its cosy, fireplace-warmed ambience inside a majestic, beautifully preserved, 1857 bank building where more than 1000 wines, many of them from the region, are on offer with takeaway prices $15 less than drink-in and further discounts for members. Look out for free tastings and Friday pizza nights on the back deck, with the owner himself at the oven. See winebankonview.com
No longer just a blokes business: the stakes improve for women in butchery
Richard Cornish
Photo: Janie Barrett
Butchering has traditionally been blokes business. A stocky man with a white shirt, blue apron and scabbard full of knives. But that stereotype looks set to change with an influx of women entering the industry.
It is estimated that less than 5 per cent of Australian butchers are women, and 95 per cent of senior positions in the meat industry are held by men, according to global organisation Meat Business Women.
However, change is coming. Three years ago, just 5 per cent of students at Victoria s South West TAFE meat processing course were female. This year that figure has tripled to 15 per cent.
Charli Masotti Photography
Central Victorian reinswoman Ellen Tormey had an unforgettable night out at the latest Mildura Harness Racing meeting, but she admits she didn t make the four-hour trek chock-full of confidence.
But there s nothing like a run of luck to turn things around - and Tormey did that on Friday night, putting together a fabulous five winners for the first time in her career at the far north west Victorian track. I had an awful night at Echuca the night before and the previous week at Mildura I think I was on four favorites and they all got run down, so I didn t exactly arrive full of confidence, Tormey said.
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Campus Director appointed in Bendigo
La Trobe University has appointed Associate Professor Julie Rudner as the University’s new Campus Director, Bendigo.
Associate Professor Rudner currently leads the Community Planning and Development Program at the Bendigo campus, where she has been based for 11 years.
Julie Rudner is well known in the Central Victorian community for her contributions as a public intellectual – in particular, her study on the Bendigo mosque protests for the Victorian Multicultural Commission – and for being a regular contributor to panel events and public lectures.
La Trobe University Vice-Chancellor Professor John Dewar AO warmly congratulated Associate Professor Rudner on her new role.