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The Big Show
Boxes On A Plane
So in China they obviously have a very different way of showing a care factor, especially when it comes to loading the luggage on a plane. {youtube}tPzRPga6...
18 Jun 2013 | PT
New Delta Goodrem
Delta Goodrem took advantage of The Voice Grand Final to unveil her new single “Heart Hypnotic”. Here’s a sneak peak. {youtube}FeNt7-kX4cw{/youtube} …and a ...
18 Jun 2013 | PT
Siberian Snow Storm
Just one day after basking in temperatures of 30C, residents of a Siberian town were shocked to suddenly find themselves in the middle of a snow storm. {you...
18 Jun 2013 | PT
2 Faces Have I
A kitten owner had to do a double take when she realised her newborn feline had two faces. {youtube}mxwB8wJIba8{/youtube}
14 Jun 2013 | PT
Ballarat Today
That’s Life with Sue Anderson
Life Coach from Good2gr8 Coaching Sue Anderson spoke about Cognitive Distortions which sounds like something out of a Star Trek movie but it all made perfect...
19 Jun 2013
UB Name Change
Because of the merging of The University Of Ballarat with Monash University Gippsland Campus, a name change for the Uni is inevitable. Vice Chancellor Profes...
19 Jun 2013
Weekend Wrap with Roland Rocchiccioli
Your latest from the man who tells it like it is…The Weekend Wrap from Roland! ...
17 Jun 2013
Sandy’s Footy Tips
Sandy Roberts had all the news this week from the AFL and his tips! {play}https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/90434852/ballarat/Sandy%20Robert...
14 Jun 2013
Showbiz with Peter Ford
All the latest from Peter this week in the world of showbiz including news on the King Kong premiere and the Murdoch’s divorce. {play}https://d...
14 Jun 2013
Movie Review with Garry West
Garry talked about the new movie '”The Internship'” and another DVD that has just hit the shelves this week as well. Hear what he had to say! {play}...
14 Jun 2013
In The Kitchen with Peter Ford
What to eat during the winter months? Peter had some great ideas this week on Ballarat Today including Pine Mushrooms and Polenta. {play}https...
13 Jun 2013
Council News
Ballarat Mayor Cr John Burt spoke to Mike about how important the rate rise is to the equation in order to pay for the city’s future infrastructure….hear wha...
13 Jun 2013
That’s Life with Sue Anderson
Sue Anderson from Good2gr8 Coaching talked this week about Self-Sabotage. What is it and how to deal with it! {play}https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/...
12 Jun 2013
Weekend Wrap with Roland Rocchiccioli
After a long weekend, Roland had plenty of things to chat about including some sad news ! &nb...
12 Jun 2013
Vic Premier Visits 3BA Studios
Victorian Premier Dr Denis Napthine joined Mike Cooper on Ballarat Today this week and discussed many issues including whether or not the State Government is...
06 Jun 2013
Council News
The Mayor Cr John Burt joined Mike Cooper this week for all the council news including the recent major announcement made by the Prime Minister and the asbes...
06 Jun 2013
Gardening & Sustainability
It's Great To Be Corny
Believe it or not, corn is actually originated from a South American grass species called Teosinte. If you've grown it before this may not be t...
06 Mar 2013
Dealing with leaf curl so your summer's n…
A bad dose of leaf curl can render your peach and nectarine trees fruitless. FRUITLESS I TELLS YA! Also known as curly leaf, this fungus (when...
04 Jan 2013
Discovering the Indigenous Murnong (Yam D…
As a teenager I was very interested in Australian bush food. For a birthday gift one year I received a bush tucker book, which I excitedly thu...
12 Dec 2012
Feed Me Or Else!
Vegetables have undergone amazing changes since we started selective breeding and cultivating them a relatively short time ago. These creations are h...
29 Nov 2012
The pros and cons of mulch
A few years ago if you'd asked me whether I use mulch, I would have nodded knowingly like a permaculture missionary. "Yep, mother nature drops litter...
09 Nov 2012
Food. Too good to throw away!
In 2010 Sustainability Victoria surveyed 1200 homes and found that 40% of household rubbish was food waste! Blimey. Growing your own foo...
05 Nov 2012
Let's get into Tomatoes!
The Geelong cup has been and gone and we're starting to see overnight temperatures make it to double figures! Yes it's tomato planting time fo...
26 Oct 2012
It's great to feel seedy!
Growing from seed tests our patience and requires faith. It also opens a new world of unusual vegetables that simply aren't available as seedlings ye...
05 Oct 2012
Green Smoothies
If you love the idea of getting more raw foods in your diet, but start to feel like an Orangutang after a few days of excluding cooked foods then Gr...
28 Sep 2012
Designing and planning a kitchen garden.
The first hint of spring and the temptation is to throw on your boots and furiously start turning soil in preparation for tomato seedlings. Well...
21 Sep 2012
Grasping the Nettle
While building some much needed support for my broad beans (DAMN YOU SPRING WINDS), I brushed my exposed legs on the nettles in an untidy neighbouring vegg...
15 Sep 2012
Sustainable House Day 2012
This Sunday sees over sixty homes around Victoria opening their doors and backyards to demonstrate sustainable living in action. Sustainable House Day sta...
06 Sep 2012
Broccoli – like apple trees for giants
Looking at another super food vegetable this week. Broccoli is one of the few plants where we eat the unopened flowers without thinking too much about it. ...
03 Sep 2012
Dealing with leaf curl so your summer's n…
A bad dose of leaf curl can render your peach and nectarine trees fruitless. FRUITLESS I TELLS YA! Also known as curly leaf, this fungus (when ...
25 Aug 2012
Unbeatable Beetroot!
Of all the vegetables in Australia, I don't think there's one that is more underrated than beetroot. More recently it's been pronounced as a superfoo...
17 Aug 2012
Amazing Parsley
The inspiration for this post came after seeing just how beautiful my parsley is growing at the moment. The leaves are such a vivid green, lush and b...
10 Aug 2012
Going Organic!
Perhaps you're a little like me. You like the idea of things that are 'organic'. You like the sound of the word and the authenticity behind the...
10 Aug 2012
Baring all this winter!
It's time to sort out the real backyard gardeners and foodies from the "fair weather tomato growers". Yes I know the weather outside is frightful, bu...
27 Jul 2012
Raised garden beds - your back and veggie…
This year has seen gardeners dealing with something they haven't had to worry about for a long time - drainage. It seems most of my gardening life ha...
16 Jul 2012
All hail king kale!
If someone told you they had a pill that: Contained 134% of your daily vitamin C requirementContained 206% of your vitamin A requirementContained 6 times...
09 Jul 2012
Unleash Your Passion! (fruit)
A Victorian backyard favourite for generations, the passionfruit vine can be super productive throughout its relatively short life. They also ma...
22 Jun 2012
Pruning Time
With leaves rapidly hitting the ground on most of our deciduous fruit trees, it's time to brave the winter chills and get into some pruning to ensure a gre...
15 Jun 2012
Something eating your garden?
You may recognise this story. It's the tale of an idealistic gardner who after watching a few episodes of River Cottage or some Good Life re-runs starts t...
08 Jun 2012
Good chemistry? Get your soil pH right to…
With apologies to any organic chemists out there and high school science teachers, chemistry is not something that most people wish to discuss day to day. ...
01 Jun 2012
What is Permaculture?
Organic gardening? Sheet mulching? Chicken Tractors? When people mention Permaculture it's often around a particular gardening idea or technique. As you'll...
25 May 2012
Oranges and Lemons...
It's now the perfect time to pop on a warm jacket and head down to your local nursery to check out the fantastic range of citrus trees available. Citru...
18 May 2012
Hold your pitchfork to the sky…it's Inter…
It may have passed right by you but we're at the end of International Compost Awareness Week! And before you start moaning about yet another week of so...
11 May 2012
Portable Gardening
For the first time in several years I currently find myself in rental accommodation. For a gardener this can often mean forgetting about gettin...
05 May 2012
Not-so-boring broad beans!
My early childhood experience of a broad beans (also known as fava beans) was a haunting one to say the least… Who knows, maybe that's why Hanni...
30 Apr 2012
Backyard Chicken Basics
If you've been pondering over whether or not to get chickens for your backyard then keep reading - this post is for you. I'll start with the positives ...
20 Apr 2012
Autumn Activities
Autumn is my favourite time in the garden. There's all the advantages of summer (warm soil, higher overnight temperatures, heaps to harvest) but with genera...
16 Mar 2012
Why you just MUST have a worm farm - Part…
So in Part 1 I hopefully made a good case for you to introduce a worm farm into your productive garden. The little wrigglers eat your waste and leave you ...
16 Mar 2012
Ballarat Begonia Festival
Thousands of visitors are expected to cruise into Ballarat this weekend to help celebrate the begonia festival. IMAGE The Ballarat Begonia Festival will...
09 Mar 2012
Why you just MUST have a worm farm - Part…
With around half of our rubbish being made up of food scraps, it makes sense that many households are looking at a better way of dealing with their organic w...
01 Mar 2012
A wealth of knowledge in our own backyard
I recently spoke to the Torquay Gardening Club. I’ve been there once before, and once again I learnt far more than I could teach. It got me thinking about th...
01 Mar 2012
Ballarat News & Sport
Teens assault man on busy train
Shocking footage has emerged of a 56 year-old man being verbally and physically abused, by two teenage girls, on a peak-hour train earlier this week. Victim...
19 Jun 2013
Jill's killer due to be sentenced today
Former Wyndham Vale man Adrian Ernest Bayley will find out his fate today after admitting to the rape and murder of Jill Meagher. The 41-year-old earlier a...
19 Jun 2013
Gonski Funding Muck Up
Smeaton Primary School has been earmarked for a 19 per cent funding increase rise under the Federal Governments Gonski education reforms despite the fact i...
18 Jun 2013
Rock Attacks Common
Police have revealed the Western Highway near Ballarat has been plagued by cases of rock throwing for years. Police are still investigating an incident on...
18 Jun 2013
Latest Community Events
Vocational Education and training in Scho…
Vocational Education and training in Schools Information Night Date: 2013-06-19 Location: Corner of Bell and Sutton Streets, Redan 3356 Start Time: 6:00pm En...
21 May 2013
Casino Night
Casino Night Date: 2013-07-12 Location: Ballarat Memorial Sports Bowling Club Cuthberts Rd Alfredton Start Time: 7pm for 7.30pm start End Time: 11pm Additio...
17 May 2013
Rokewood Pony Club Gymkhana
Rokewood Pony Club Gymkhana Date: 2013-08-03 Location: Glenelg Hwy and Lords Lane Start Time: 03-08-2013 End Time: 03-08-2013 Additional Details:Rokewood Pon...
17 May 2013
Progressive Dinner
Progressive Dinner Date: 2013-06-22 Location: Mitchell Harris Wine Bar, Europa, Oscars Start Time: 7pm End Time: 10.30pm Additional Details:Progressive Dinne...
05 May 2013
Latest Lost & Found
FOUND - Terrier X Dog
Terrier X Dog FOUND at mt mercer on 16/06/13 Please Contact: kim on 0428224282 Additional Detail: Male,black and white, fox terrier X, no collar but has worn...
17 Jun 2013
Buy, Swap & Sell
Timber Bed Head
Item: Timber Bed Head Additional Detail: Selling a Queen Size Solid Timber Bed Head, It is in as new condition. Paid $600 Selling for $100 ono Contact Mandy...
19 Jun 2013
Couch/Sofa
Item: Couch/Sofa Additional Detail: I have a forest green 3 seater and 2 armchairs sofa for sale. Material is a short velvet type, very soft - but not microf...
18 Jun 2013
laying hens
Item: laying hens Additional Detail: 2nd year laying hens, $6 each or $5 each when you get over 10. Contact matt on 0404234099
18 Jun 2013
Isa Brown hens
Item: Isa Brown hens Additional Detail: Isa Brown hens, 18 months old and currently laying, $6 each or $5 each when you get over 10, phone matt on 0404234099...
17 Jun 2013
AFL Live
"Level-headed" Mayes impresses
Written By: Bodey Dittloff Brisbane Lions teenager Sam Mayes is the AFL’s Rising Star nomination for Round 12. In the Lions’ loss to Fremantle on the weeken...
18 Jun 2013 | AFL LIve
Tribunal to sit
Written By: Tom King Luke Hodge will roll the dice at the AFL Tribunal tonight by risking a week’s suspension for rough conduct on Carlton’s Lachie Henderson...
18 Jun 2013 | AFL LIve
Weekend Wrap - Round 12
Written By: Bodey Dittloff Round 12 in 2013 should be remembered for six more instances of impressive team performances, but it is more likely to be remember...
16 Jun 2013 | AFL LIve
Weekly Wrap
Written By: Julian Bayard IT'S taken until Round 12, but Mick Malthouse has finally asserted his authority over the Blues. After his 'sooking' performanc...
14 Jun 2013 | AFL LIve
Recipes
Prawn, Mango and Avocado Salad
Ingredients; 400g cooked tiger prawns 2 mangos, cut into 2cm cubes 2 avocados, cut into 2cm cubes 2 limes, plus lime wedges to serve 1/3 cup finely ...
04 Jan 2013
Dark Chocolate & White Tartlets
We are all entitled to something “bad” in our diets from time to time. Having said that our resident master chef has been at it again. INGREDIENTS 140g Unsal...
04 Jan 2013
Cook the Perfect Roast Every Time
A Meat Thermometer will help you cook the perfect roast every time. They are in-expensive and are available at Supermarkets and department stores. As a rule...
27 Jul 2012
Crock Pot Meatloaf
Recipe for Crock Pot Meatloaf: Ingredients1 egg lightly beaten1/4 cup tomato paste1/2 cup fresh breadcrumbs500g minced beef (less fat works better)1 small...
27 Jul 2012
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Go Socceroos!!
Congratulations and good Luck to the Socceroos who defeated Iraq last night in Sydney 1-0 to progress to the World Cup 2014 in Brazil after Josh Kennedy p...
19 Jun 2013 | Garrath
3BA Xmas in July Appeal
The 3BA Xmas in July Appeal is back on for 2013 We again seek your kind donations to help support the battling families of Ballarat and surrounding areas ...
09 Jun 2013 | Garrath
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