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Gardening for a lower food bill

By Geralyn Wichers May 3, 2023

Although snow in the third week of April suggests otherwise, Manitoba is only weeks away from gardening season. And while the large farm garden is an institution in rural areas, the memory of soaring lettuce prices and food costs in general may have Manitobans everywhere looking for a little extra from their growing space. Why[...]

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Pilot mill gets food-grade green light

By Geralyn Wichers August 16, 2021

The University of Manitoba’s Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals (RCFFN) has always been about bringing the food industry in Manitoba and Western Canada to the next level. The centre has produced research into how canola and flax oil impact cardiovascular health, or analysis to help develop food products in a bid for later[...]

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OCN’s Smart Farm is a source of physical and mental health

By Geralyn Wichers July 5, 2022

A computer-controlled farm, on-site research and fresh produce are providing ways to combat diabetes in this northern community

It sits behind the wall that holds the community centre’s bingo board — and its name is Bertha. This ‘Smart Farm’ is Stephanie Cook’s domain on Opaskwayak Cree Nation (OCN), more than 600 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg. After more than six years of farming, Cook can walk into the room and smell if something is[...]

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Winkler cidery opens orchard-side tasting room

By Geralyn Wichers June 27, 2022

Tasting notes of tequila, lime, strawberry and... horse blanket? Think hayloft, not manure, says Dead Horse Cider founder Marcus Wiebe. He ushers a Manitoba Co-operator reporter over to the taps in the Winkler cidery’s sun-dappled tasting room. After tasting the funky crispness of the Backyard Blend, made entirely from local apples, it makes sense. There[...]

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Synergistic farming system teaches kids business, science

By Geralyn Wichers February 18, 2022

Outside snow is piled high and despite the bright sun, it’s a frigid Winnipeg afternoon. Cars whiz by on McPhillips Street. But out of sight of traffic and the railway tracks, fish swirl past the windows of two blue tanks and lettuce, chard and herbs dangle roots from bobbing Styrofoam rafts. In a warm, sunlit[...]

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Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes couple puts mechanical mettle to regenerative livestock farming

By Geralyn Wichers September 29, 2021

One could say the origin story of the robotic Rova Barn begins with a young kid on a dairy farm who wanted to go to the beach, or on a family road trip, or just to Grandma’s for Sunday dinner. But milking needs trumped adventure. “We didn’t go on holidays when I was a kid,”[...]

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Rolling down the road for history and healing

By Geralyn Wichers September 15, 2021

For two classic tractor owners, Steinbach’s Tractor Trek brings together history, hobbies and helping. “I enjoy driving my tractor and seeing the people enjoy sitting on the side of the road and watching that, or coming to the museum,” said Henry Doerksen who was on this year’s organizing committee for the event. “It’s just the[...]

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Water retention projects show promise for drought protection

By Geralyn Wichers July 26, 2021

It was a simple equation for Al Ayotte. It was a dry 2020 summer, and water was seeping out of his sandy-soiled pasture into a drain and flowing off his property. “It doesn’t make sense, and it gets me mad,” he said. “Let’s go reverse. Let’s pile up some water and let the water go[...]

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Embracing endless possibilities

By Geralyn Wichers July 16, 2021

It’s difficult to believe that the vivid orange, burgundy and yellow floral print wasn’t painted or printed on the soft, crepe scarf in Lourdes Still’s hands. Instead, these scarves are dyed into the fabric straight from marigolds, coreopsis flowers, and even onion skins right there on Masagana Flower Farm near La Broquerie. Still stirred a[...]

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Manitoba seed company brings regenerative ag to garden scale

By Geralyn Wichers June 11, 2021

A team of Manitoba farmers and gardeners are taking their love of regenerative farming and shrinking it from field to garden. “When we started regenerative farming on my family farm, we turned to cover cropping to replace our reliance on fertilizers,” said Joseph Gardiner, co-founder of ReWild Garden Seed in a news release May 13.[...]

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Gardening for a lower food bill

Pilot mill gets food-grade green light

OCN’s Smart Farm is a source of physical and mental health

Winkler cidery opens orchard-side tasting room

Synergistic farming system teaches kids business, science

Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes couple puts mechanical mettle to regenerative livestock farming

Rolling down the road for history and healing

Water retention projects show promise for drought protection

Embracing endless possibilities

Manitoba seed company brings regenerative ag to garden scale

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