My husband hunts. I don’t. But I do get why he goes, even if I’m not getting up at 5 a.m. to go with him. Like most hunters, he’ll tell you this fall ritual is important to him. It’s a family tradition and a walk in the woods. It’s a time to reconnect with the
Your own goose — and how to cook it
A few more of us are finding out we’re still a little wild at heart
MWI to host workshops on family health
The MWI is hosting two events in October aimed to help families better communicate, handle conflict and improve understanding of financial issues
A family that gets along well and communicates effectively is a safe and secure place. One that’s chaotic and regularly in conflict is not. This fall the Manitoba Women’s Institute is tackling some of the thorny issues around causes of family conflict, while offering help to lessen it. Two Manitoba Rural Women’s Day events —
Top food fight prize goes to craft beer maker
Craft beer, energy bars, and Asian-inspired sauerkraut impress Great Manitoba Food Fight panel judges in 2016
The 2016 Great Manitoba Food Fight’s top prizewinner is a unique small-batch beer, signalling the creativity and new potential in this province’s emerging craft brewing sector. John Heim of Torque Brewing Co. in Winnipeg last week took home the gold package worth $10,000 for the Witty Belgian Wheat Beer the company has developed. The beer
Grower groups kick in cash for grain safety
Funds will help launch a mobile unit for farm safety education at farm shows and offering training for first responders
A large cash contribution is going to help the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA) warn farmers and their families about the dangers of working in and around stored grain facilities. Four grower organizations including the Canadian Canola Growers Association (CCGA), Alberta Pulse Growers (APG), Alberta Wheat Commission (AWC), and Prairie Oat Growers Association (POGA) have
Direct Farm Manitoba wants more marketing freedom for farm products
Direct Farm Manitoba, organized in March 2016 to represent farms producing and selling direct to consumers, holds first meeting with provincial ag minister
A first meeting with the provincial minister of agriculture has gone well, says a spokesman for a new organization representing direct marketers of farm products. Phil Veldhuis is spokesman for Direct Farm Manitoba, a group organized this spring to promote an improved policy environment for direct-to-consumer farm business. They sat down last week with Ralph
Grain growers try their hand at veg production
Canadian Prairie Garden Puree Products Inc., based in Portage la Prairie has significantly ramped up its organic product line
Not long ago Bryce Lobreau would have scoffed had someone told him he’d be growing a field of vegetables one day. The Pipestone-area farmer was focused on building up his cattle herd, to become what is now Manitoba’s largest organic livestock feeder, and expanding his land base, now at 5,000 acres of mostly hay land
Tragedy brings out the best in farm community
Within hours of learning their 76-year-old neighbour had been killed in a car accident, farm neighbours began organizing to help harvest the family’s crops
At his father’s funeral this summer, Rolf Penner spoke of how working alongside him on the farm was a bit like being ‘like an old married couple.’ “We would bicker and fight and argue over things, but when it came down to it we were always there for each other,” he said. And they’d always
‘The End of Our Memories’ shows the challenges of small-town museums
Gimli-based filmmakers Andy Blicq’s and Huw Eirung’s half-hour documentary interviews volunteer proprietors of small-town museums about their struggles and successes
A new film depicting the plight of small-town museums is a cautionary tale of what rural communities will lose if they’re closed, say museum advocates. These aren’t merely collections of curios, tools, books and other things donated by local pioneer families, says Monique Brandt, executive director of the Association of Manitoba Museums. They’re tangible connections
Winkler-area research site to help expand markets for vegetable growers
Site will evaluate varieties and crop management techniques for fresh-market potatoes and carrots, and even sweet potatoes
Those orange-fleshed sweet potatoes Canadians love eating travel many miles to reach our dinner plates. Most are grown in the southern U.S., where a much longer and warmer growing season makes commercial production possible. Now new varietal research, underway near Winkler, may make field production of them possible in a Canadian climate too. Sweet potatoes
Fresh food, practical menus and a healthy way to eat
Two Alberta professors of nutrition designed a healthy diet based on our locally produced foods
One of the best steaks I ever ate was at a meal served on a Manitoba Forage Council pasture tour. We’d bounced around on a bus all day, looking at rotational grazing systems and winter feeding methods. Then it was time for supper. We were served these unbelievably tender and flavourful steaks, and baked potatoes
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