When the pig scramble was over at last spring’s Royal Winter Fair in Brandon, its 11 porcine participants left the ring destined for small-town food banks. Five co-ops in Westman covered the costs to have the pigs fed and slaughtered, and about 1,500 pounds of their meat was donated this autumn to food banks in
More and more people turning to food banks — especially in Manitoba
Reston’s loonie lot offer
With about four million website hits and its phone ringing off the hook, the RM of Pipestone is reasonably assured of making a quick $24. Posting 24 residential lots for sale at the price of one loonie apiece, with the dream of small-town living in Reston thrown in has hit a chord across the continent
Recipe Swap: Meat recall is a wake-up call
Just days after the Food and Agriculture Organization’s report how one-third of all food produced for human consumption is wasted every year, the XL Foods scandal began. Now we’re hearing that at least two million pounds of beef, the equivalent of about 6,000 to 7,000 cattle, is heading to Alberta landfills. It’s the largest E.
Recipe Swap: How we cook(ed) in Canada
Unless we keep journals or blog, few of us ever write our own story — our mothers and grandmothers certainly didn’t have much time to do so. So written records of their life’s experiences can be hard to find. But often their cookbooks have tales to tell. In the late 1990s, Ontario librarian and archivist
Small towns’ older citizens need new forms of transport
The growing number of mobility scooters in Morris is a glimpse of a future that will see Manitoba’s senior population triple in the next two decades
Morris is becoming something of a year-round Sturgis, that granddaddy of U.S. motorcycle rallies — except it’s power chairs and medical scooters, not Harleys, that everyone’s riding. And now it’s got proper sidewalks for those who use the devices. “We’ve got a lot of people riding them in town, probably anywhere from 40 to 50,”Recipe Swap: Meat again (and again and again)
Some people keep food diaries, or a daily account of what and how much they eat. It can be a shocking read. All those snacks! Take these records to a dietitian, and we may get another eye-opener: the amount of meat we consume. Susan Watson is a registered dietitian and weight-loss coach in Winnipeg. Clients
Niverville company launches farm-grown energy bar
It’s only just hit the store shelves, but Colleen Dyck’s made-in-Niverville energy bar already has a loyal customer following. “People are sending me photos of themselves on mountain tops or in yoga poses with their GORP bar, or out in the canoe with their kids,” said Dyck, who operates Artel Farms Ltd. with husband Grant.
Communications breakdown added to emergency
Volunteer firefighters racing to reach fire-threatened Vita last week passed hundreds of vehicles headed the other direction and wondered what they were headed into, said veteran firefighter Alain Nadeau. “I’ve been doing this for 33 years and this was the scariest I’ve seen,” said the weary La Broquerie fire chief on Friday after an exhausting
Recipe Swap: Thanks for supper — and many other blessings
When there’s something great at the other end, people gladly wait in line. The man ahead us joked he wouldn’t stand this long in a line up for a restaurant. Around 60 to 70 people were waiting outside to get into the noisy, crowded Warren Memorial Hall a couple of Sundays ago — for the
Growing projects nearing completion
The final tally isn’t in yet, but 2012 may yet prove to be a record year for revenues generated by growing projects in support of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. Good prices and good crops mean higher than ever grain incomes are anticipated, said Harold Penner, CFGB Manitoba resource co-ordinator. More soybeans and corn, and for
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