BACCHUS Marsh farmers have a chance to voice their concerns over brown coal mining on their properties at a parliamentary inquiry on Monday. Moorabool Environment Group members will speak at the ...

In my opinion it is just too close to Bacchus Marsh for a coal mine.'' Conflict between farmers and resources ... opening up a lucrative export market to India. Its export plan hit a snag last ...

UNCERTAINTY surrounds the cost of an extra 3000 megalitres of water allocated to give struggling Bacchus Marsh irrigators a ... said the extra water would give farmers another option to help ...

Bacchus Marsh Attractive rural town surrounded by orchards and market gardens. Bacchus Marsh is one of Victoria's older towns and, as such, it retains a number of historically significant buildings.

It’s a hot summer day in Bacchus Marsh and cars meander along the main road into town. The open green farmland is dotted with market stores and shopfronts and locals are catching up over a ...

However, the town is named after Captain William Henry Bacchus (also of Van Dieman's Land) who occupied the valley when Clarke headed west in 1838. The 'Marsh' part of the equation reflects the ...