Since 1926 4-H Manitoba has made public speaking training part of club participation — and young participants say they truly benefit from it
If the little girl in a blue dress enthusing about Smurfs at last spring’s 4-H provincial public speaking competition had a case of the jitters, she didn’t let it show. Hallie Scott, nine, delighted her audience and judges, and the first-place trophy she won in the Junior One-Person Visual category in Winnipeg that day nowStand up, speak up, learn a lot
Recipe Swap: September is supper time
If you’re sorry summer is over, don’t be. Fall in Manitoba is a demanding time, but it’s also pure pleasure, with its dusky sunsets and crisp colours, and lots going on in our communities. This past Sunday was the third annual Open Farm Day, with 51 host farms welcoming visitors. This year’s event also featured
Manitobans visit farms for third annual Open Farm Day
A day with the public continues to reap hands-on learning, farm product sales, and positive feedback from visitors and participating farm owners
Cars lined driveways and filled up farmyards last Sunday as Manitobans ventured out for another Open Farm Day. This is the third year the province has hosted the day to encourage ordinary Manitobans to get out and visit participating working farms and agritourism ventures. Fifty-one locations were listed in the 2012 guide, including many playingRecipe Swap: Follow your nose
The warm spice, fresh-baked bread combo of a newly baked cinnamon bun is, in a word, irresistible. Who hasn’t been lured into Mom’s kitchen, or a hometown bakery, when they’ve picked up the scent of them. That’s the idea behind the new “Cinnamon Bun Trail” a map and guide to help you follow your nose
It’s onward and upward as crowds flock to St. Norbert Farmers’ Market
It’s official: Le Marché St.-Norbert Farmers’ Market is one heck of a draw. The market on Winnipeg’s southern outskirts drew 10,000 people on a single day in August. The huge Saturday crowd demonstrates why recently announced renovations and improvements are badly needed, said Marilyn Firth, the market’s community relations manager. Those include upgraded drainage, improved
New food products head to school
New food products head to school NuEats brand part of Manitoba Agri-Health Research Network’s effort to promote functional foods made from Manitoba-grown ingredients Barley waffles and tortilla chips, a yogurt-granola bar, and sundaes topped with saskatoons and oatmeal are some of the made-in-Manitoba foods headed to university this month — for a taste test. If
Former elementary school opens as nurse training facility
Cypress River residents look forward to welcoming 25 LPN trainees who will study in the small town’s former elementary school
When local residents put up $100 to buy their four-classroom school back from the Prairie Spirit School Division last year, they weren’t sure what they were going to do with it. But they weren’t prepared to stand by and watch the 7,000-square-foot school closed in 2009 fall into disrepair, so they took a leap ofRecipe Swap: A big little cookbook
If the recipes it contains make you as fat as the Graysville United Church’s coil-bound collection, then watch out. I’ve seen a lot of community cookbooks, but at over 500 pages, I don’t think I’ve ever seen one quite like this one — and it belies the size of the group that assembled it. Graysville
Genetics make the difference
Edie Creek Angus is a farm business built around a minimum-maintenance Angus cow herd thriving in a forage-based environment
If you want your cow herd to thrive on Prairie forages, don’t start with genetics from animals accustomed to having grain buckets chained to their chins. That’s the hard lesson Jonathan Bouw learned a few years back after their farm stopped buying feeders and began keeping only their own calves to finish. Bouw, his brotherCanadian oat growers up efforts to retake U.S. horse feed market
Over the last 15 years, Canadian oat exports have dropped by 70 per cent as U.S. feed manufacturers switched to cheaper ingredients
Canadian farmers are urging American horse owners to ask feed makers, “Where’s the oats?” “What we have to do is convince the people who put the feed formula together to put the oats back into the formulation,” said Bill Wilton, president of the Prairie Oat Growers Association (POGA). Over the last 15 years, Canadian oatCyber-Savvy Farmer
