11+ hour, 35+ min ago   (287+ words) For a growing number of ageing residents across Warrnambool and its surrounding regions, a good meal no longer means a trip to the supermarket or a long stint at the stove. An ambitious local initiative is changing how our region…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (425+ words) A popular Warrnambool coffee shop's new owners are no strangers to the city's hospitality industry. Allee Espresso is now under the management of a couple who ran a successful cafe in Warrnambool's CBD for nine years. Mark and Katrina Brightwell…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (647+ words) This movie about the youthful Anthony Bourdain begins with a self-lacerating epigraph from his book Kitchen Confidential: "I was - to be frank - a spoiled, miserable, narcissistic, self-destructive and thoughtless young lout." The future chef and author is shown to have…...

2+ week, 11+ hour ago   (486+ words) Vulnerable members of the community have been pushed aside in an ugly rush for free food. The behaviour has been condemned by organisers of the Cobden Food Rescue Market, which was held at the town's Uniting Church Hall on Friday,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (432+ words) Growing up on her family's farm near Hamilton, Millie Austin learnt everything there is to know about merino wool. Now, the 23-year-old is using her background to challenge fast fashion and innovate the industry she grew up in. After becoming…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (438+ words) In 1888, Cobden became home to the first co-operative butter factory in the southern hemisphere. Staffed by just eight, it now employs about 300 people. The factory occupied nine acres of land when it opened. Just 12 years later, it totalled 500 acres and…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (248+ words) When Barbara Collins started an initiative to bring farming women together in 2006, the conditions were similar to how they are today. "It was during a period of time for the dairy farmers that was very hard; low prices, drought, there…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (667+ words) As the H5 bird flu continues to spread across the country, another disease has been quietly wreaking havoc on a different industry. Beekeepers warned in 2022 that the deadly parasite varroa mite was crippling their colonies. The parasitic mite has continued to…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (662+ words) Despite a boom and bust in the wool industry turning Andy Beard's farm into dairying, he is still keeping his family's 100-year-old sheep tradition alive. It's a legacy that looks set to continue with the next generation. Hanging from the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (379+ words) A Warrnambool baker who was spat on by a woman in his shop has been overwhelmed with community support in the wake of the incident. Within hours of Gallo bakery owner Alex Luu posting a video of the encounter on…...