It’s great to be back and presenting another edition of Lost Magazine. Each day is still different, but it’s nice to see some normality coming back this month. It’s been wonderful collaborating with, and supporting local businesses to create this edition of Lost Magazine.
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Lauren Bieber and Tom Crowe aren’t the only Melbournians who’ve packed up to seek a simpler life steeped in the beauty of Central Victoria. They are unique, however, in being members of the city’s café intelligentsia who’ve brought their skills to the `hood. Part of a wave of smart operators who helped revitalise Melbourne’s café scene into a world leader more than a decade ago, these days you’ll find their skill-set transplanted to a vibrant café on Daylesford’s Vincent Street.
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“I'm from a small town as well. So, this move for me, back to Daylesford, is a desire to give back to the grassroots community and really help people in a more human sort of way. That's the essence of Greywoods,” explains Blair. “It’s back to basics. It’s very family centred, it's about enabling communities and small businesses to do well with a cleaner, more professional, efficient marketing experience, but at an affordable price.”
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Connie Conlon’s bubbly personality flutters through the phone when she calls. “My Great Pyrenees Mountain Dog just ran out of the shop, straight across the road, which was a bit scary!” Her shop, Portal108 is nestled on the winding main road of the lush Spa Country; Hepburn Springs.
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Mara’s work is a holistic project titled Village Dreaming. It thrives on reviving the displaced community of her Italian heritage through the things that made her grandmother's hometown so special; hosting, cooking, baking, preserving, and foraging workshops.
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Although Christine grew up in the city of Salzburg, her heart had always pined for her uncle's farm in rural Austria. “I think he was my big hero. He was my big inspiration. He grew his own corn. He had his own cows. His own horses, chickens, his own pigs. My aunt had a massive veggie garden. So, they were very much self-sufficient. Ever since I was a little kid, I said ‘one day I want to be living the same way!”
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Peter and his wife Jill bought the eight-hectare property west of Ballarat that’s now Nintingbool Vineyard in 1982. They built a family home and lived there while Peter pursued his career in the police force. But he was always thinking about farming.
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A delicious recipe thanks to the Farmers Arms Daylesford kitchen!
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One of Animus Distillery’s all time favourite cocktails… a simple recipe to make at home, Macedon Dry Martini.
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Drumbeats sound out a steady rhythm in the stillness of the midwinter morning, muffled by thick fog hanging like a blanket in the air. In all directions lie green fields, glistening with droplets of freezing condensation.
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