Bands festival hits the right note
Hundreds of musicians converged on Strathalbyn on Sunday for the first day of the Strathalbyn Bands Festival.
Sport
Winter racing returns to Strathalbyn
Winter racing returned to Strathalbyn for the first time in many years last week, with hundreds of racegoers braving the cold to witness a historic day at the local track.
Stepping back up to the crease
Langhorne Creek cricketer Archie Frost will once again be stepping up to the crease after being selected for the second year in a row to represent South Australia in the Under 12 team.
Team mates share best and fairest award
Willunga teammates Bella Rigby and Kristen Pacillo have claimed this year’s Great Southern Football League Women’s A grade best and fairest – tying with 16 votes each – while Victor Harbor’s Skye Kartinyeri- Sumner finished with 15 votes.
Jack to join elite UK soccer tour
A young Mount Barker soccer player has been given the chance of a lifetime to join an elite academy in the UK.
Rural
Honey, check this out
An avid gardener recently started a bee-rilliant new hobby, of beekeeping, to improve his crops, and has been reaping what he has sown. Goolwa’s Phil Sargent has planted about 200 native species with his brother on their Goolwa property over the...
Milang farmer’s hopes rained on due to unseasonably wet weather
A Milang farmer estimates the unseasonably wet summer has caused about 25 per cent of income loss for grain farmers in the region. His neighbour has recorded 150mm of rain since harvest started since the end of October, and as reported in this...
Advancing women in agriculture
When Currency Creek farmer Belle Baker was growing up, women weren’t always accepted as farmers. These days Ms Baker, with help from her partner Patrick O’Driscoll, is tailor-making courses to help women on the land fill gaps in their knowledge...
A healthy distance advised for livestock welfare
Hazards for livestock and the best methods to protect their health were the subject matters of a recent Milang Agricultural Bureau meeting. Many of the actions undertaken by governments in the early days of COVID parallel methods used by livestock...
