Time for Summer Mulching in your Garden
By Karen Godwin, Horticulturist Mulching is one of the most beneficial things you can do to better garden health this summer. Mulches are materials placed over the soil surface of garden beds and pots either when initially planting your plants or to maintain your existing garden beds. The main benefits of mulching your garden include […]
Hidden In The Hills – Coachwood
By Lachlan Turner Readers will be forgiven for thinking that the images accompanying this article are of the NSW Christmas Bush (Ceratopetalum gummiferum). However, featured here is a close relative known as Coachwood (Ceratopetalum apelatum). They both grow in similar conditions and are distributed largely across the same regions along the entire eastern coastal ranges […]
Fire Season Coming … Buy the Right Pump
After the Black Summer, we all learnt a lot about the ravages of bushfire. Here in the Hills district, we have a huge fuel build-up and we all know the local brigades can’t be everywhere at once. If you make the decision to stay and protect your property, pets and livestock, be prepared. You’ll need […]
Dural RFS
SHOWCASING OUR MEMBERS Over the coming issues we will be highlighting a number of members from Dural RFS- Rural Fire Brigade. Hi, my name is Amy and during 2020, I took the steps to become a member of the Dural Rural Fire Brigade. I was excited to get involved and give back to the community, […]
Glenhaven Rural Fire Brigade
The last month has seen an increase in activity for the brigade. There have been a number of calls to bush fires, grass fires and building automatic fire alarms. Where there is a risk from bush fire, the NSW Rural Fire Service uses Bush Fire Alerts to provide information to affected communities using radio, television, […]
Crystal Festival to Shine
The largest crystal and gemstone festival of its kind in Australia is heading to the Central Coast. The Central Coast Crystal Festival at Gosford Showground will be the first post COVID event run by Crystal Festivals Australia and will feature more than 100 stalls with traders from all Australia in line with current COVID restrictions. […]
Rare Property with one of the Largest Dams in the Hills District Sells
Strong competition for a unique Dural acreage – with its own lake-size dam – resulted in a $4.61m sale at auction through Lumby Hampson. property The 2.03ha estate at 4 San Remo Place attracted 19 registered bidders with an opening offer of $3.35m. It quickly jumped above $4m and sold above expectations under auctioneer Kate Lumby. […]
How Did We Ever Survive?
MARK COUPER – DURAL CHAMBER MEMBERSHIP OFFICER Recently I was happily working on my spreadsheet when all of a sudden my universe came to a stop as my Internet crashed, so I lost access to all my files in the cloud. Looking back I thought to myself, how did I ever survive in the 70s, […]
Win A Street Library – A Beautiful Tiny Home for Books in Your Front Yard
By Christopher Parsons Hornsby Shire Council is once again offering its free Street Library program, where up to 20 people living in the Hornsby Shire local government area can get their very own Street Library! Street Libraries are cute ’small build’ structures normally located on private property that allows public access for free book exchange […]
Probus Ponderings – A Fond Farewell to Zoom
The October meeting of the Combined Probus Club of Cherrybrook was one filled with a heady mix of nostalgia and optimism. With fingers crossed we held what we hope was our final Zoom meeting, a strange feeling of farewelling a faithful servant that helped us through the difficult times of lockdown and revelling in returning […]
