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Tech-savvy farmers are going mobile

It appears the days of escaping to the tractor cab for a few air-conditioned hours away from the telephone are over on the farm. A recent Farm Credit Canada survey found 81 per cent of farmers are now packing cellphones and they are rapidly investing in smartphones and tablets. The FCC survey found 29 per
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Orchard Venture Proves Apples Are A Viable Prairie Crop

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After a 36-year banking career, Ed Clayton decided to become a farmer but instead of grain or livestock, he wanted an extra challenge. I just wanted to prove to people that you can grow good apples in Manitoba, said the 70-year-old as he guided visitors through his operation on Open Farm Day. In 1996, after
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Apples Promote Good Health

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That apple tree is amazing. Look at this apple! my 12-year-old daughter exclaimed as she held up a large, bright-red apple. She had just come inside after using our apple picker to pluck some of the brightest-red fruits high in the tree in our backyard. We can make lots of things with apples, can t
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Recipe Swap – for Aug. 25, 2011

HereareacoupleofcookierecipesandayummysnackingcakeforSeptember’slunchboxes. ZUCCHINI SNACK CAKE Barb Galbraith of Oakvillesent us this recipe in response to our call for zucchini-based recipes. Thank you, Barb. 3 large eggs 1/4 c. honey (liquid) 1-1/4 c. brown sugar 3/4 c. canola oil 1/2 c. plain yogurt 1/2 tsp. grated orange rind 2 c. flour (white or whole wheat or mixture)
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Recipe Swap – for Aug. 11, 2011

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APPLE RASPBERRY CLAFOUTIS (PRONOUNCED KLA-FOO-TEE) Here’s a recipe found in another well-thumbed cookbook found at the yardsale. The cover was missing on this cookbook full of fruit desserts, but I gather its origins are the Okanagan, seeing references to Penticton and Osoyoos. A traditional clafoutis is a baked French dessert made with cherries so this
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Recipe Swap A Fruit Pickers’ Must-Have

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Swap readers may recall a request on these pages awhile back for recipes using wild fruits. It came from Frieda Martens of Winnipeg who, inspired by her recollections of wild fruits enjoyed as a child, was preparing a cookbook. This spring she has published Precious Wild Berries,a 123-page ring-coil recipe book containing 80 wonderful recipes,
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For The Love Of Chocolate

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With Valentine’s Day just four days from now, you can’t go anywhere without seeing the association between chocolate and love. How did a mid-winter celebration of love from the Middle Ages become linked with a New World food ingredient? It happened over a period of centuries as Europeans familiarized with the South American drink so
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Why Eat Barley?

Arguably one of the oldest grains ever eaten, we “drink” this ancient grain more often than we eat it. Barley is also easy to find on store shelves, either as pearled or pot barley. Polishing to make pot or pearl barley removes the inedible hull, although that also removes some of the nutrients too. Whole
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Recipe Swap – for Nov. 11, 2010

On the Veteran’s Affairs Canada website is a site devoted to helping young people learn about the families’ experiences of life during the war. Included on the website is a series of recipes that reflected the minimal use of ingredients. Here is one of the recipes found on that site at www.vac-acc.gc.ca/youth/sub. cfm? source=activities/kidszone/recipes. WARTIME
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Halloween Apples

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Halloween is a time for fun, a time to get spooked and a time to eat wonderful treats. One food that is synonymous with Halloween is the apple. It has been part of the Halloween tradition for over 1,000 years. The Celtic people of Britain and Northern Europe had two seasons, summer and winter. On

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