By MICHELLE SLATER Gippslanders are being encouraged to eat fresh Lakes Entrance prawns by supporting an initiative that will help struggling local fishers, inject
Month: February 2020
Man of the high country
By MICHELLE SLATER Ensay cattleman Phillip “Bluey” Commins knows every inch of the Nunniong Plains after his family have spent the past 150 years
Blaze aid in Bruthen
By MICHELLE SLATER Rural charity Blaze Aid has been busily helping landowners around Bruthen secure their properties after bushfires razed the area, destroying family
Bushfires sting beekeeper
By MICHELLE SLATER Bruthen beekeeper Ben Murphy purchased Tambo Valley Honey only 18 months before the New Year’s Eve bushfires destroyed about 200 hives.
Les calls a spud a spud
By MICHELLE SLATER Thorpdale spud grower Les Horsfield talks passionately about potatoes and at the age of 90 is still not quite ready to