Green light for GemLife
GemLife has received the green light for its new 262-home over-50s resort, on the Whittam Transport site in Strathalbyn.
Sport
Strathalbyn hosts karate grading tournament
Strathalbyn played host to a grading event for 90 budding karate experts recently, as part of the 33-year birthday celebrations of the National Karate Academies.
Podium finish for local roper
Willyaroo rodeo competitor Darcy Dall’Aglio has returned home from the Junior National Finals with a second place in the team roping event.
Duffield rewarded for stellar game
Strathalbyn football product Elliott Duffield’s focus on his footy has earnt him the Round 13 AAMI Rookie award – for the game between South Adelaide and Port Adelaide.
Disappointing Country Championships for Southern District
The Southern Districts’ men’s team finished a disappointing sixth at the THINK! Road Safety SA Country Football Championships on the weekend, but it wasn’t for want of effort.
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...
