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![Peony roses](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611af32c6871a517575a7522/1641768222170-LGXZR8YPOLIDWJ8QEO29/07_garden.jpg)
Peony roses
Many gardeners grow peony roses and peony trees. They are beautiful flowers in subtle shades of pink, mauve and white that many adore.
![Harvesting rain with Raincube](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611af32c6871a517575a7522/486b5c74-875d-4b6c-9aa9-6c87e3acc8b3/07_raincube.jpg)
Harvesting rain with Raincube
When Alistair Rule purchased a block of land in the Meander Valley with no access to water and without any built structures to attach fixed water tanks, he decided to do something about it.
![Biodiversity and the 3F initiative](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611af32c6871a517575a7522/1641766514870-3NENPUKIVTQQAEP4AEED/11_observing_nature_3.jpg)
Biodiversity and the 3F initiative
In 2021, the Species Survival Commission (SSC) of the IUCN committed to the 3F initiative by using ‘mycologically inclusive’ language in documents and in their conservation strategies.
![Bringing the groove back](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611af32c6871a517575a7522/1641765728160-F0ITE1NRKPWCREUQIZY7/13_mvfm.jpg)
Bringing the groove back
When Mira Kuperstein first joined the Meander Valley community radio, MVFM 96.9, they thought it would be fun to be part of something that would be such a tremendous resource for the community.
![Protect your chooks from pests this summer](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611af32c6871a517575a7522/1629768102653-TLO6YU8Q4SP1QIYNER0C/MVG+Chook+Chat.jpg)
Protect your chooks from pests this summer
Summer has definitely arrived, and now is the time to think about external parasites – mites, lice and scaly leg.
![Waste not, want not - using your Christmas leftovers](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611af32c6871a517575a7522/1641765119000-4ODLG38OGUTQJVV598RK/17_recipe.jpg)
Waste not, want not - using your Christmas leftovers
Late last year I posted a postcard to an ex work colleague at the Hagley post box. In my usual haste, I forgot to address the card.
![Patsy Crawford scribbling away](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611af32c6871a517575a7522/1629337471718-MK64LOVPLD4JJW4Y2ILS/MVG+Patsy+Crawford.jpg)
Patsy Crawford scribbling away
There’s nothing like a spider story to set the pulse racing and the brow breaking out in a cold sweat.
![Hollow-bearing eucalypts](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611af32c6871a517575a7522/1638755147237-BZ5NN6WSCNK88DDQB0S1/13_black_cockatoo.jpg)
Hollow-bearing eucalypts
Whether in forests, woodlands or as scattered or isolated trees on cleared land, stately old gum trees characterise the Australian landscape.
![Worms!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611af32c6871a517575a7522/0f58c054-1d27-4bcf-a336-e122999a2dd2/15_chooks.jpg)
![Specialising in the seventies](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611af32c6871a517575a7522/1638752937439-6T4WQNRGPD174P85SZEZ/16_debby_kemsley.jpg)
Specialising in the seventies
Debby Kemsley is a program assistant at Meander Valley Community Radio (MVFM).
![Christmas traditions](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611af32c6871a517575a7522/1638752513220-XO6HYOMJFJUEBZNYSCL5/17_pudding.jpg)
Christmas traditions
One Christmas day our family had brandy sauce for dessert but without plum pudding.
![Art in a box](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611af32c6871a517575a7522/1638750862716-OM81BOVE96Y9TS6TOKIX/21_shoebox_sculpture.jpg)
Art in a box
Sculptures that could fit in a shoebox were on display last month in Deloraine at The Empire Hotel, Brush Rabbit and Deloraine Creative Studios.
![Patsy Crawford scribbling away](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611af32c6871a517575a7522/1629337471718-MK64LOVPLD4JJW4Y2ILS/MVG+Patsy+Crawford.jpg)
Patsy Crawford scribbling away
The other day I gave the son the compass, the head-lamp and the bush maps. Before that I’d given the daughter the microlight tent and assorted bits of camping gear.
![A stitch in time at the Deloraine Folk Museum](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611af32c6871a517575a7522/1636606974333-ZEUPNDGYD3XW7CESGYDN/14_sewing_room_exhibit.jpg)
A stitch in time at the Deloraine Folk Museum
The Deloraine and Districts Folk Museum has curated an exhibition on the history of the sewing machine.
![Rough stuff? Saddle up!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611af32c6871a517575a7522/1629768102653-TLO6YU8Q4SP1QIYNER0C/MVG+Chook+Chat.jpg)
Rough stuff? Saddle up!
There comes a time in the henhouse when the girls get too much of a good thing. If you see your hens’ backs denuded of feathers, sometimes even scratched, what you’re observing is too much sex in the farmyard.
![A seasoned performer](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611af32c6871a517575a7522/1636605549191-OS5LPQDGQT9IXZ6GB4YZ/16_eddie_tuleja.jpg)
A seasoned performer
Abraham Lincoln is renowned for many things. One of them is the fact that he shares birthdays with Meander’s Eddie Tuleja (not the same year, it must be added).
![Apricot dreaming](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611af32c6871a517575a7522/1636605294306-3ZJSBWTVN7LOG4GS5V1X/01_apricot_dessert.jpg)
Apricot dreaming
As a young teacher at Winnaleah District High School in the early 1980s, I was often invited to the homes of students for family dinners.
![Lovely lavender](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611af32c6871a517575a7522/1636604931133-3CRFJE77MUM3LYEK9BGX/17_lavender.jpg)
Lovely lavender
Hello. I’m Susan and I will be your new garden correspondent if everything turns out well. We have had lots of rain this winter and we will continue to have a wet spring and into summer.
![WOAD 2021 creates their gallery on Emu Bay Road](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611af32c6871a517575a7522/1636604317478-R8WVZ578XHJXUODUFDG3/19_WOAD2021.jpg)
WOAD 2021 creates their gallery on Emu Bay Road
Arts Deloraine has once again mounted Windows On the Arts Deloraine, a shop window showcase of wonderful and interesting artworks by local painters, printmakers, sculptors and textile artists.
![Hanami, Deloraine style](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611af32c6871a517575a7522/1633441181186-3MOZ5EMD2FBV23JDT1CY/01_cherryblossom.jpg)
Hanami, Deloraine style
A sunny spring day and a small forest of cherry blossom on the Meander River banks attracted many of Tasmania’s Japanese population to Hanami in Deloraine last month.