I would like to encourage members of the CWA to actively support this light-hearted venture that has given us a bit of fun in Buninyong. We are a small semi-rural community but the interest now extends into suburban, regional and remote areas across the length and breadth of Australia. There is also a more serious side since the project can unite people with purpose in all our communities and give people of all ages some skills in a craft-making exercise that has been handed down from generation to generation.
Perhaps your parents or grandparents had a favourite marmalade recipe? Why not dust it off and have a go? Then, next January, send your resultant 2 jar Entry in to the Buninyong Marvellous Marmalade Fair ready for judging and selection in February.
Australian men love their sheds - and all the activities that they can create in a relaxed and pleasant environment. While woodwork and metalwork may predominate in our Sheds, there are other equally skilled activities that are fulfilling, whereby men can swap a hard hat for a chef's hat - and you get to enjoy the finished product for breakfast! Marmalade-making requires skill, creativity and persistence. So I would encourage Men's Shed enthusiasts to branch out into a kitchen somewhere and have a go, and, as my colleague June says, send your entries in to the Selectors next January. After all, half of the victorious 2011 Buninyong Eleven were man-made!
(left) Buninyong Golf Club (right) Buninyong Information Centre
Buninyong Botanic Gardens
(left) Buninyong Gong (right) Queen Victoria Rotunda
June Henderson, President Buninyong Country Women's Association, with the next beautiful batch of Grapefruit marmalade. June is a Buninyong Eleven marmalade-maker, together with her fellow CWA members Lyn Fleming and Sheila Etchells
Even men make marmalade!
Russell Luckock - Buninyong Eleven
marmalade-maker
For more information about Buninyong, visit the Buninyong Community Website