Dietitians of Canada’s National Nutrition Month Campaign 2010 offers these suggestions for celebrating food from field to table. … In your community Start, support or get involved with local community garden projects. Work with your local school board to create ways to showcase local foods either in the classroom or in the school cafeterias. Ask
Nutrition Month Theme Urges Canadians To Learn About Food Sources
Cartwright Growing Through Immigration
“There has to be a commitment by the community to welcome newcomers.” CARTWRIGHT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OFFICER PENNY BURTON Who’s coming to Manitoba? Manitoba has more than doubled the number of immigrants arriving annually in the last decade – and aims to do so again within the next six years. In 2004, 4,588 immigrants arrived in
17 Participants Take Part In Exploring Farm Dream Course
Andrea Swain and Jeff Cottes have good educations, secure jobs and a home in Winnipeg. They also have a dream: to leave the city and start a small market garden, living a simpler life so one can stay home with their two young children. The pair have their eye on a piece of property near
Homecoming 2010 Good Marketing Opportunity For Rural Tourist Attractions
Manitoba Homecoming 2010 is a chance to tell everyone about your hometown and its unique attractions, says Kevin Walters, executive director for Manitoba Homecoming 2010. Speaking at the Direct Farm Marketing Conference held in Morris last weekend, Walters urged participants to use the year-long promotion of Manitoba to help get the word out about what’s
Food Safety System Falls Short
“If we’re at all concerned about periodic outbreaks of foodborne illness that are very dramatic in terms of newsworthiness, or public interest, then we really have to get at the nuts and bolts of the food safety system.” – RICK HOLLEY Canada’s system for protecting its citizens against foodborne illness is no better today despite
Southwest Explores Strategies For Immigration
Southeastern Manitoba has scored big in their efforts to attract thousands of new immigrants to work in industries there. Now towns in southwestern Manitoba – Deloraine, Melita and Virden and others – want to attract them too. “We’ve seen the success stories out of places like Morden and Winkler,” said Shirley Bell, an economic development
Advancing A Sugar Maple Tree For Manitoba
“We’re on the right track.” – CLAUDIO STASOLLA, PLANT SCIENCE PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA The tree producing Canada’s emblematic red maple leaf may one day find a home on not-so native land: Manitoba The natural range of the sugar maple, with its glorious fall colours and prolific volumes of spring sap, now extends only to
Sewage Ejector Ban Hitting Rural Pocketbooks
Lowe Farm-area resident Dennis Friesen ran into a nasty new wrinkle to selling rural properties when he put his farmyard on the market last autumn. The farmer and autobody shop owner was planning to subdivide his yard from his farmland and sell it so he could move his car repair business to a better location
Report Looks At Long-Distance Care Giving
More Canadians drive farther to care for aging relatives, says a new report documenting more missed work days and increased expenses of those thrust into role of caring for an elderly person living more than an hour’s drive away. Using data from the 2007 General Social Survey, the study found about 1.65 million people over
Manitoba Women’s Institute Prepares For 100Th Birthday
“We have to start discussing how we are going to move into this second century.” – ENID CLARK, MANITOBA WOMEN’S INSTITUTE PRESIDENT ABenito Wome n’s Institute member rose from her chair one day in 1947 to voice her worries. While putting her team of horses away for the day, she’d spotted a woman changing a
Cyber-Savvy Farmer
