In this place it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place.” So said the Red Queen to Alice in Lewis Carroll’sThrough The Looking Glassas Alice made her way across the patchwork fields, “a great huge game of chess that’s being played – all over the world.” It was pure
Recipe Swap – for Jul. 7, 2011
Land Donation Will Protect Local Water Supply
A rare remnant of river-bottom forest along the Dead Horse Creek in southern Manitoba donated this spring to the Manitoba Habitat Heritage Corporation is a great example of how preserving habitat can have far-reaching benefits. A new conservation agreement signed between a southern Manitoba farm family and the MHHC will help protect the regional water
Recipe Swap – for Jun. 30, 2011
If you have a few minutes and access to the Internet, I think you’ll find a new web-based health and wellness assessment tool an interesting exercise. It’s maybe an eye-opener too. Last week the Manitoba government launched Health e-Plan, a secure interactive online site to help you get a better idea about your health status
Tick That Can Cause Lyme Disease Making A Home In Manitoba
The odds of picking up a blacklegged deer tick – and contracting Lyme disease – are on the rise in Manitoba. The southeast corner of Manitoba and an area around the Stanley Trail in south-central Manitoba now have established blacklegged tick populations. Surveillance findings suggest they now occupy an area that may stretch from the
Rural Schools Pursue New Way Of Teaching Agriculture
They caught and identified bugs, walked the banks of the Boyne River looking for evidence of riverbank erosion, spoke to weed and soil specialists about biodiversity, ecosystems and farm production systems. And while that might sound like any other end-of-school-year field trip, for about 100 Grade 10 students in south-central Manitoba, the visit to the
Campaign Urges Province To “Put Communities First”
Municipalities plan a grassroots campaign this summer to make sure the needs of small towns and rural municipalities aren’t forgotten as candidates for the fall election start making election promises. All 197 local governments are asked to pass resolutions that lay out their specific infrastructure needs, with price tag attached and make other community groups
Recipe Swap – for Jun. 23, 2011
School’s out and summer’s in, which means a break in morning sandwich-making chores for those of us with kids. The smell of salmon evokes end-of-school- year memories for me. Mom always packed somethingreallyspecial in the lunch kit for that last day. Never mind that by noon, the bread was soggy and everything in the lunch
Centre For Food In Canada Releases First Report
The value of food to the Canadian economy reaches far beyond the value of primary production, processing and distribution, a new report by the Conference Board of Canada says. But as one of Canada’s most highly regulated sectors, the food industry’s opportunity for continued growth will depend on its ability to address two competing pressures:
Farm Business Management Council Launches Mentorship Program
Anational mentorship program linking Canadian farm families with young entrants is expanding to add the Canadian 4-H Council and three other partners. As well, prospective participants will no longer be required to be enrolled in an agricultural course, a previous criteria for participation. They can now be anyone new to farming, or someone wanting to
Rebuild Of The Titan
It was just a tractor skeleton and a pile of parts when Bob Anderson first laid eyes on the Titan 18 -35 more than 30 years ago while visiting a farm at High Bluff. “But I could see she’d been a beauty,” says the MacGregor farmer and lifetime International Harvester Company enthusiast. He knew this
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