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
Manitoba Seeing A Products Revolution
Compo-Stages Manitoba Services Co-Op Demonstrates Advantages Of Composting Manure
co-operator staff / st. pierre-jolys Farmers saw Manitoba s first industrial-sized manure windrow turner in operation last week. Next month they can hear more about joining the new cooperative that owns it. The Compo-Stages Manitoba Services Co-op, an agricultural composting co-operative and a first for both Manitoba and Canada, conducted demonstrations on six farms around
Farm Mentorship:
Ashley Cot had begun to walk toward the tour bus that had brought her to visit the St. Claude-area dairy farm when she suddenly turned back. Could she ask just one more question, she politely asked farm owner Roger Philippe. For the past hour she d diligently taken notes, pausing occasionally to stoop and give
Brothers Capitalize On Specialty Brews With Local Flavour
Now they re coming back to rural Manitoba, this time with plans to start up the first estate brewery in Canada. An estate brewery differs from other breweries by producing its own ingredients. We re farmers at heart, and we just sort of wanted to get back to the land, said Lawrence, who has just
Golden Carrot Awards
Brandonites who planted small-plot gardens around their city this summer probably didn t expect to reap a golden carrot for their efforts. That s the award presented to their umbrella organization, the Brandon Community Garden Network, representing more than 500 community gardeners in the wheat city, Oct. 14 at the Manitoba legislature. The Golden Carrot
New Guide For Better Hitches
Farmers are adept at improvising, but that s not a good idea when hooking up old equipment to a new tractor. I sit on the Canadian Standards Association committee for agricultural machinery and this has been a theme at a number of our meetings, the incompatibility of older implements and newer tractors, said Jim Wassermann,
Compost Co-Operative Among New Co-Ops Starting Up In Manitoba
One of Manitoba s newest cooperatives hits the road this week and is hoping to recruit new members as it demonstrates the services it offers. The Compo-Stages Manitoba Services Co-op was expected to be out doing on-farm demos at St. Pierre, Marchand, La Broquerie, Notre Dame du Lourdes and Steinbach with its newly purchased windrow
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Hunger is exclusion. Exclusion from the land, from jobs, wages, income, life and citizenship. When a person gets to the point of having nothing to eat, it is because all the rest has been denied. I keep Josue de Castro s words pinned near my desk, lest I be tempted to believe I m really
Participants In Cattle-Handling Workshop Learn Less Is More
Andrew Dueck wasn t quite sure what he d get out of a cattle-handling workshop, but the Beausejour teen learned less shouting, chasing, and running translates into more effective herd management. It used to be we were chasing calves, which was just impossible, said the 16-year-old. Now I ve gone out there and just slowly
Manitoba Farm Women’s Conference Celebrates 25 Years Of Connecting Women
Donna Lee Brown was a young mom with two small children when she started going to the fall Manitoba Farm Women s Conference. That was the mid-1980s, and she and her husband were just beginning to farm near Brandon. Now, with a son old enough to do the same, Brown is still going to the
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