Winter editions out now

Hi all welcome to Winter, 
The winter editions of both Gippsland Country Life and Yarra Valley and Ranges Country life have both just hit the shelves!!


This week we have been madly distributing to newsagents and specialty stores and this round printed an extra 1000 copies of each mag. 
This season we are dubbing the people's issue in the Yarra mag with profiles of actress Alison Whyte and Nurseryman Wes Fleming. We meet a Marysville couple who have rebuilt a contemporary prebuilt home and have the usual round up of local events and happenings across the region, as well as social pages. 
Our Gippsland mag is truly a regional affair with stories coming to you from all over the region. 
Meet Ursual and Werner Theinert Callignee artists who survived the Black Saturday bushfires and a dedicated couple from Bunyip who have renovated a cottage from the ground up.
This issue we visit three antique stores in Inverloch and visit the winter village of Dinner Plain. 
I hope you enjoy the winter editions and see you in Spring. 


New Advertisers
This issue we also welcome several new advertisers to the fold. Sassafras Wool Store, The Press Cellars in Warragul, Lacy Jewellers in Meeniyan, Tallowwod Emporium in Metung, Bradshaw Cottage Healesville, Crumbz www.crumbz.com.au, The Gilded Lily www.thegildedlily.com.au, The Yarra Store (03) 9844 5444, Now and Then Trading Park Orchards, (03) 9876 6672, Taits Interiors www.taitsinteriors.com.au , Sticks Winery www.sticks.com.au, TarraWarra Estate www.tarrawarra.com.au , Yarra Coffee www.yarracoffee.com.au  welcome to you all!!
For more information about advertising in either of our publications contact Sacha Steel on 0400 346 244.




Events for your winter Calendar

Gippsland 

• Loch Village in Gippsland is conducting its annual food and wine festival on the Queens Birthday Weekend June 10th -13th. (03) 5659 4215
• Christmas in July Celebrations at Mt Baw Baw on July 30-31. www.mountbawbaw.com.au
• July 16 and 17 Twin Rivers Bream Classic 
• Briagolong Film Festival June 9th call 0448 455 604

Yarra Valley 

• Hurstbridge Wattle Festival August 28th  1300 660 072
• Bastille Day Celebrations at Mont De Lancey July 10th  (03) 5964 2088
• Montrose Speakers Series - Janelle McCulloch (03) 9761 9133
• Tony Flint at Yea - Gallery 34 High Street Yea (03) 5797 3222

On to Spring

We are starting to put together our editorial for the Spring edition and already have a selection of wonderful stories and photographs. 

Notes for contributors

Thank you to all of our contributors to these editions and please keep your story ideas coming. 

I receive many requests (weekly) from Freelance Writers who would like to contribute stories. The best way is to flick me an email with your details, areas of interest, samples of your work and your rates. Also, an outline of the story you propose would be ideal. rebecca@clpublishing.com.au. 

Winter 2011

     This month we will be hard at work putting together the feature stories for the Winter editions of Gippsland Country Life and Yarra Valley and Ranges Country Life magazines due for release in the first week of May.
     The stories are well under way and the pages are filling fast with stories about the wonderful people and places across the regions.
     So far we have met an artist couple in Callignee who have rebuilt their studio that was lost in the Black Saturday Bushfires,  enjoyed a day on the Gippsland Lakes at the annual boat muster, had lunch with the Colineri Family in the Yarra Valley and met award winning winemaker David Bicknell from Oakridge winery. Find out his favourite place on the Oakridge Estate and read the other stories in our winter edition. More sneak peaks to come in later blogs.
  We have had a great response from many of our readers about the beautiful homes of Justin Bishop in Sassafras (pictured below) and the Miles's of Metung featured in our Autumn editions, and we plan to bring you more on the best of country living in our Winter edition.

 From the Autumn edition both Gippsland Country Life and Yarra Valley and Ranges Country Life were placed in all of the Qantas Airport Lounges across the country and we have had a great response with an increase in interstate subscriptions and requests for information from international visitors to the region.


Autumn Events For Your Diary 

Gippsland 
April 23
Dahlsens Lindenow Cup Farmers Day
Bairnsdale Racecourse Ph 5152 4057

April 24
Coronet Bay Beach Fair
bandchutton@bigpond.com

May 6-15
Shakespeare on the River Festival Stratford
www.stratfordshakespeare.com.au

May 15th - 28th
Guys and Dolls
West Gippsland Arts Centre
wgac.com.au

Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges


April 25
Easter Monday at Vines Restaurant
www.vinesrestaurant.com.au ph 9739 0222

Third Sunday of the Month
Yarra Valley Regional Food Group Farmers' Market
Yering Station Barn 9-2pm 9739 0122

Throughout May
Memories of Melba
Lilyday Historical Society
nelliemelbamuseum.com.au Ph: 9761 9192


Advertisers 
A reminder to advertisers that the booking deadline to be a part of the winter edition is May 1st 2011.
Find out more information on the website www.clpublishing.com.au or call Sacha Steel on 03 5962 5128.