See and hear all about our Potluck dinner held on the 19th of September at the ABC Radio Site.

A "Potluck" dinner is one where you invite your friends to bring along something to share.  You don't know if you will get 10 desserts and 2 main meals, or the other way around!  No organisation allowed!

The Local Food group of BREAZE (Ballarat Renwable Energy And Zero Emissions) hold a Potluck on the 3rd Friday of each month. 

This one was the first "Locavore" potluck. so we attempted to source all of the ingredients of our food from within 160km (100 miles) of Ballarat.
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- Pink Eye potatoes!

"Top Quality local potatoes, fruit, vegetables"

Norma & Bob Carlson - 5334 8182

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 sharna up closeTwo friendly geese have come to stay, just for 7 weeks while their family is on holiday in the USofA.

Sharna and Rikki are 9 year old and live out at Duram Lead when they are not staying in Buninyong.

Rikki came to the family as Richard, but he turned out to be a she (a common story with poultry I'm sure).

13-09-08 - Rikki has now made a full recovery, so Heidi thankfully was quite right.  After about 5 days of not walking, Rikki first stood up (to dry her under feathers) and then progressed to a slow walk, and finally back to normal!

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re-oxidising-silver-earringThis is a method of removing the black tarnish from your silver items (if they are small enough to put in the pot!), that my father, the Industrial Chemist, taught me. He said that instead of rubbing your silver away by removing the black coating, this method will add the silver back onto the item!

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