Here s something to think about next time you re adding sugar to your daily cup of joe; the total amount of sugar consumed daily by most Canadians adds up to about 26 teaspoons per day. It works out to about one in every five calories consumed coming from sugar, or 21 per cent of
Recipe Swap – for Sep. 29, 2011
Recipe Swap – for Sep. 22, 2011
Sendyourrecipesorreciperequeststo: ManitobaCo-operatorRecipe Swap Box 1794, Carman, Man. R0G 0J0 or email [email protected] With blight taking out most people s tomato crops last year, gardeners have been especially vigilant this summer to see another season through to a healthy harvest. As I write this, my own tomatoes look fine, although a little small. With any luck
Recipe Swap – for Sep. 15, 2011
Don t laugh, but a few years ago I had a hard time getting dill to grow in my garden. My digging dogs were the problem. I d get dill from neighbours wherever I could, using it amply in soups and stews, and stashing away the rest fresh in freezer bags. It thaws smelling nearly
Pressing Rural Priorities
If Portage la Prairie fixed all the sidewalks, roads and water mains it needs to, the city would be $11 million over budget. Now, they’re faced with another bill coming due – the anticipated $25 million it will take over the next five years to meet new provincial regulations for nutrient removal from waste water.
Fair And Music Festival Link Up
Onlookers lined up under a hot August sun to watch the horse shows and a pleasure driving competition, wander through the home living show and vintage car display, finishing the afternoon inside the Kelwood Legion with friends and a couple of beer. At the other end of town, another small crowd settled onto lawn chairs
Recipe Swap – for Sep. 8, 2011
Sendyourrecipesorreciperequeststo: ManitobaCo-operatorRecipe Swap Box 1794, Carman, Man. R0G 0J0 or email [email protected] Building on last year’s success, organizers have another Open Farm Day planned this September 18, with more and greater diversity of farms to visit this year. Thousands of people poured through open farm gates on a beautiful September afternoon last year; attendance surpassed
Cattle Producer Impressed With Twice-Over Rotational Grazing System
BSE wasn’t the only crisis that Grande Clairiere beef producer Gerry Bertholet faced in 2003; the native grass in this part of Manitoba was so dry that year he was feeding cows in August. It was around that time Bertholet struck up conversations with staff from Manitoba’s Critical Wildlife Habitat Program about the native grassland
Recipe Swap – for Sep. 1, 2011
Sendyourrecipesorreciperequeststo: ManitobaCo-operatorRecipe Swap Box 1794, Carman, Man. R0G 0J0 or email [email protected] What if you held a fall supper and urged everyone to head out for a walk afterward? For starters, visitors to town would get a closer look at your fine community. Everyone would walk off a few calories piled on at dinner too.
Winter Feeding System Saves Time And Money
If there were more hours in the day, Wayne Heinrichs might never have taken up winter grazing. But bale shredding and refilling paddocks were taking the better part of an afternoon and those were hours the Brandonarea cattle producer didn’t have. So a few years ago, Heinrichs began looking at ways to extend the grazing
Recipe Swap – for Aug. 11, 2011
APPLE RASPBERRY CLAFOUTIS (PRONOUNCED KLA-FOO-TEE) Here’s a recipe found in another well-thumbed cookbook found at the yardsale. The cover was missing on this cookbook full of fruit desserts, but I gather its origins are the Okanagan, seeing references to Penticton and Osoyoos. A traditional clafoutis is a baked French dessert made with cherries so this
Cyber-Savvy Farmer
