A new made-in-Manitoba snack food has been named one of the top 12 natural foods at an international gourmet food show in San Francisco. Buckshots, a roasted buckwheat snack, may have vaulted the crop from obscurity to significant new interest, too. Many of the Canadian, American, and global buyers attending the 2012 Winter Fancy Food
Buckwheat snack food impresses at food show
Staff shortages at planning offices worry municipalities
Municipalities are worried they’re losing access to the planning expertise they rely on to conduct reviews of development plans and revise zoning bylaws. At the November Association of Manitoba Municipalities convention, leaders said they’re worried about a growing staff shortage at district offices of Manitoba Local Government and what that may mean for how they
Oak River farmer wins appeal to Municipal Board
An Oak River-area farmer has won his battle to subdivide his farmland from its yardsite — and his victory may make it easier for others trying to keep the yard lights on in rural Manitoba. Jon Crowson is a retired Manitoba Agriculture Food and Rural Initiatives farm production adviser who has lived in a modest
Winter wheat can help you manage your time and risk
When Lee Moats’ grandfather began farming in 1910, near Riceton, Sask., the soil was rich and fertile, and required little more than occasional summerfallow to produce bountiful crops of wheat and other cereal grains. Moats’ father was a wheat grower too, although by the 1960s, the soil’s fertility was running low. Today, as the third
Ranchers not fooled by rainy cycle
One Interlake farm family is developing a rubber management strategy — one that bounces back in wet times or dry — for dealing with weather extremes. Don Green even joked about the new “Interlake cowboy boot,” made of rubber of course, as he shared his approach to dealing with the wet cycle of the past
“Well-Aged” Bothwell Cheese Plant Celebrates 75th Birthday
CO-OPERATOR STAFF / NEW BOTHWELL Age is not important unless you re a cheese, or so the saying goes. Or a cheese company who s built a reputation on 75 years of tradition. Bothwell Cheese marked its 75th year making cheese this month with an open house and unveiling of an 8,000-sq.- ft. cheese aging
CFB Signs New $125-Million Five-Year Agreement
A new five-year $125-million funding agreement signed between the Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFB) and the federal government means the Canadian food aid program will continue its quick and early response to global food crisis. Minister of International Co-operation Beverly Oda announced October 26 that Ottawa will provide the CFB, a partnership of 15 churches and
Law Changes For Liquor Consumption
New liquor legislation that took effect November 1 means Manitobans can now bring their own bottle of unopened wine to restaurants to have with a meal. This makes Manitoba the sixth province to let patrons BYOW. The initiative is voluntary, meaning diners will need to first check with restaurants to see if they allow it.
Preserving History On A Shoestring
They preserve the past and they re open for the present, but the future is uncertain for many of this province s smaller museums. Filled as they are with local collections of artifacts, many run on near empty, with shoestring budgets and scant volunteer labour. The Manitoba Agricultural Museum is grappling with budgetary constraints and
Manitoba Seeing A Products Revolution
It takes a lot of energy to keep the largest greenhouse in Manitoba warm through a bone-chilling winter, and until five years ago, that energy source was natural gas at Vanderveens Greenhouses in Carman. With gas prices spiking and the cost of heating hundreds of thousands of square feet of greenhouse rising with it, the
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