What’s New in Daylesford and the Macedon Ranges
It’s all happening in Daylesford and the Macedon Ranges, as we continue to see a steady flow of new openings across the…
Long Paddock Cheese & The Cheese School
Based at The Mill Castlemaine, Long Paddock Cheese creates deliciously-different handmade cheeses, mainly in the French…
Exhaling Under A Thousand Stars
While I’m still on my camping “L Plates’, a slow renovation of an 80’s pop up camper ensures we will soon have the best…
Buda Historic Home and Garden – Weddings
Buda Historic Home and Garden is a goldfields villa house, museum and heritage garden located in Castlemaine. Step back…
Buda Castlemaine
Buda Historic Home and Garden is an 1861 goldfields villa house, museum and heritage garden located in Castlemaine.…
Live Music in Unexpected Places
Discover sweet sounds in plenty of unexpected places - from churches to mechanics’ institutes, giant amphitheatres to…
Autumn Botanic Gardens Treasure Hunt
Daylesford and the Macedon Ranges are spectacular in autumn and everyone wants to join in on the fun. But rather than…
Rooms with a view
Thanks to its high elevation and stunning mountain vistas, the Daylesford Macedon Ranges region is blessed with some…
Dreamy Summer Desserts
Desserts are a magical thing; they have the ability to awaken your senses and comfort you with their sweet flavours. As…
Greens, Free Range Eggs and Locally Sourced Ham
As one of those vegetarian people who eats seafood and eggs, I'm always pleased to find a new haunt in the region that…
Castlemaine Botanic Gardens
The gardens are home to an impressive collection of established native and exotic trees, with a beautiful ornamental…
Land of Honey
Daniel Palm is obsessed with beekeeping. The microbiologist runs a research and development laboratory as a day job,…
Country Fair
2020 – what a BLEEP of a year! Thankfully, our region’s dedicated Agriculture Show committees are hitting the ground…
Get on the Beers
They say that alchemy is a form of speculative thought, practised to transform precious natural resources into cures…

















