A new 6,000-sq.-foot bungalow-style home under construction in Dominion City sounds like a very big house, but it’s being built to show how smaller homes for an aging population can be just the right fit for rural communities. The scaled-up, multi-family house later this year will become home to a mix of couples and individuals
House rising in Dominion City a new concept for seniors’ housing in small towns
This small southeastern Manitoba village is building the first Abbeyfield House in Manitoba. The alternative housing model for seniors is now found across North America and Europe
New farm organization for direct marketers proposed
Discussions now focused on possible partnership with Farmers Market Association of Manitoba
The Farmers Market Association of Manitoba (FMAM) may change its name and become the new farm organization called for in a report delving into supports needed for farms that direct market. About 50 people met last fall for a day-long meeting and consultation on how to create a more formalized group. “What we’re looking at
Agro-climate data is a ‘mismatch’ with overall trends
Farmers need improved data on agro-climate to make sense of climate change, says U of M soil scientist
Numbers don’t lie but they’re presently a real puzzle when it comes to making sense of climate change and what’s happening on the farm, says a University of Manitoba professor. Despite warming trends of recent years and forecasts of a continued increase, analysis of agro-climate data shows the last spring frosts are only marginally earlier,
Canadians will pay more for food in 2016, U of G report says
Major trends influencing food purchases will include quest for non-meat proteins, demand for supply chain transparency and ongoing concern about animal welfare
A new report from the University of Guelph’s Food Institute predicts consumers will pay an additional $345 on their food bill this year. That’s an increase over the $325 additionally paid for food in 2015 when a low Canadian dollar saw price increases for many food products, but especially meats, fruits, nuts and vegetables, the
Manitoba ice-cream maker to share facilities at Notre Dame Creamery
Dairy farmer turned ice-cream maker Lisa Dyck has produced her gourmet ice cream at the University of Manitoba’s Dairy Pilot plant until now
Manitoba’s first on-farm milk producer turned food processor is making a big move as 2016 begins. Lisa Dyck, who launched Cornell Creme gourmet ice cream made from milk from her family’s Anola-area farm’s 120-cow dairy herd in 2013 is moving her production to the Notre Dame Creamery. She’s made her popular line of ice-cream flavours
Manitou takes pride in keeping its opera house in fine form
Manitou has added a seamless new addition to its 1930 Arts and Crafts-style opera house
The Manitou Opera House has always looked as good as it sounds. So when residents of this south-central town added some modern amenities to its 1930s-era vintage theatre, they were determined to keep it that way. No one will ever guess 86 years had passed between the new addition and the original Manitou Opera House,
Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries bets on local food
Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries dedicates 25 per cent of food budget to local food purchasing
Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries doubled the amount of local food it bought to serve in restaurants at its two Winnipeg casinos’ restaurants this year, now dedicating 25 per cent of its annual $4-million food budget to local food purchasing. The food is served at its restaurants at Club Regent and McPhillips Station where approximately 9,000
2016 is International Year of Pulses
Recipe Swap: Avocado Chickpea Salad Sandwiches, Lentil Macaroni And Cheese and The Ultimate Can‘Eh’dian Salad
A new year always begins with resolve to eat better, shed a few pounds, and become healthier. 2016 just might be the year more make good on those intentions. The United Nations has declared 2016 International Year of Pulses (IYP) to get people around the world rethinking a healthy diet — for the good of
Operation Ag Careers to launch in 2016
An on-line resource encourages Canadian Armed Forces retirees to eye a second career in agriculture
A pilot project being launched early this year aims to put some muscle behind the notion of farming with ‘military precision.’ Operation Ag Careers is targeting the thousands of men and women retiring from the armed forces every year as potential recruits for the thousands of jobs available in agriculture. The joint project of the
Photographer documents Manitoba’s last wooden elevators before they’re gone
Winnipeg photographer Jean McManus’s photos will help Manitoba Historic Society to gather information and stories — with Co-operator readers to preserve the history of Manitoba’s once vast network of wooden grain elevators
Jean McManus wanted just one great photo of a wooden grain elevator when she set out with her camera in June 2014. She didn’t know at the time that she would soon to be snapping pictures of every elevator in Manitoba. “I retired and picked up a camera,” says the former cardiac nurse from Winnipeg,
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