World Food Day is a day set aside by the UN each Oct. 16 to help us understand why the world is hungry. Media stories focus on hunger statistics, who is hungry, and root causes of hunger on a planet producing more food than ever. It’s also a time of year when civil society groups,
Recipe Swap: Developing world food security through knowledge
Canada’s work in global food security draws praise from independent study
Canada has fulfilled its 2009 promise to double investment in global food security, says a recent independent assessment of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Canada now invests more in basic nutrition than any other donor country around the world, and makes the largest per capita commitment to food assistance, says Fertile Ground, Assessing CIDA’s
Oak Lake area pumpkin patch pulls in the crowds
Tanis Podobni means business when she pulls out the cookie sheets. “I need 300 bags of six for the weekend,” she says, hands flying as she scoops out dollops of ginger cookie dough. She’ll make several dozen pies while she’s at it. It’s a routine that’s repeated over and over during September and October as she
Proposals to reopen ski hill sought
Standing on the western edge of McCreary, Alpine Archie clutches his downhill skis and looks out over the slopes of Riding Mountain National Park. The village’s signature statue was erected in the 1970s, a decade when Mount Agassiz Ski Hill was a thriving winter tourist attraction in rural Manitoba, and the farming community enjoyed considerable
Recipe Swap: What day is this?
The trouble with a weekly paper is keeping up with breaking news. I am sorry to be late informing you it was National Cinnamon Day last week. By now — Oct. 10 — it’s National Angel Food Cake Day. I was writing this on National Mulled Cider Day. These aren’t holidays, of course. National you-name-it
Women’s Business Network supports rural women entrepreneurs
Southeastern Manitoba women business owners organized to serve as mentors for each other in founding and growing their businesses
Diane Stadnyk knows how to get people organized. The RM of Hanover resident is the owner of Embracing Simplicity, a recently launched business that help people better manage their time, set goals, and clear clutter in their homes and offices. She’s also putting those organizational skills to use as volunteer president of the Women’s Business
Russell weighs in at Beef and Barley Festival
It isn’t the weight of grain or livestock being verified by the numbers on the scale at a local elevator at Russell’s Beef and Barley Days next week. It’s the combined weight of Russell townsfolk hoping to bag a $500 prize for shedding a few pounds among them. Five-member teams of friends and co-workers have
Popularity of farmers’ markets continues to grow
There were five new farmers’ markets established this year, including the popular Downtown Biz Market at the Manitoba Hydro Plaza in Winnipeg
The farmers’ market star continues to rise in Manitoba. “I’d say it’s been one of our best years yet,” said Marlin Peters, co-ordinator of the Virden Farmers’ Market. Customer traffic is up and that’s attracting new vendors, he said. “We have definitely seen an increase this year,” he said. “I’m sure there’s at least five
Recipe Swap: Get ’em while they’re crunchy
This is the third year schools and daycares are selling fresh vegetables as a fundraiser
With the kids back in school, club and classroom fundraisers begin again. One is the Farm to School Manitoba Healthy Choice Fundraiser — a way to raise money while sending a message that cookies and candy aren’t the only good things to eat. Now in its third year, the program allows Manitoba schools and daycares
Buildings tomorrow’s heirlooms — with yesterday’s wood
Many see beauty in something old, faded and worn — but few can find uses for it. Blayne Wyton does both. His four-year-old company, Morden-based Prairie Barnwood, does a brisk business handcrafting fine furniture from boards, beans and posts salvaged from old barns in the Pembina Valley. The idea came to him during a road
Cyber-Savvy Farmer
