The Manitoba Organic Alliance will meet with Agriculture Minister Stan Struthers this week to ask the province to subsidize the cost of organic certification for growers who only sell locally. The rebate proposal emerged from a discussion among growers at last week’s Growing Local Conference over how to assist smaller producers who can’t afford the
Rebate Proposal Backed By Organic Growers
Learn To Fall Asleep — In Class Or At Your Computer
Rural Manitobans who suffer from insomnia, yet live too far from anywhere to get help can now sign up for treatment for the condition. The department of clinical health psychology at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg is looking for rural Manitobans to sign up for an insomnia treatment program now offered online and via
Made In Manitoba Energy Bar Boosted By Lentil Ingredient
Theresa Le Sliworsky needed lots of energy to sustain her through busy days of raising a young family, working full time and training as an endurance triathlete. To keep her energy up, she’d eat sport performance bars, but she was often aghast by how much sugar, fat and preservatives were in them. Many didn’t taste
Report Calls For Centre Of Good Food Citizenship
Anew report that lays out a road map for restoring the health status of Canadians while reviving the nation’s ailing agri-food sector points Manitoba in a direction it is already headed, the executive director of the Manitoba Agri-Food Health Research Network (MAHRN) says. That’s how Lee Anne Murphy reads the newly released Canadian Agri-Food Policy
Value-Added Venture Has Good Fibre
With her kids entering their teens, but still not wanting to divide her time between being a stay-at-home mom and an off-farm job, Angie Baloun was looking for a new focus to life back in 2007. She and her husband, who works off farm, have horses and grow hybrid poplar trees on 20 acres just
Add A Little Fish To Your Dinner
As I write this Louis Riel Day is just around the corner and if the weather is good – and even if it’s not – I’m certain many Manitobans will take the day to enjoy a little ice fishing. Much the same way camping gear has brought a lot of indoor comforts outdoors, gear for
Beware Of Risks In Confined Spaces
When Tom Hoogendoorn’s milk tank wasn’t functioning properly, he didn’t think twice about squeezing himself through the 18-inch opening at the top in order to enter and see what the problem was. For his safety’s sake, he asked someone to stay near the top of the tank and keep an eye on him. But no
Food Processors Look To Farm Practices
Canadian farms have sustainability advantages from the climate they produce food in, progressive soil management practices and low water usage, Pulse Canada says. Two new reports have attempted to measure sustainability within agricultural supply chains and how food companies view and value it as a measure of food product quality. The reports, commissioned by Pulse
Testing The Waters
Can we fish in your barn? Do you feed your fish worms? A lot of people are curious about the silvery trout now swimming in a Warren-area barn that once raised chickens. Owners Leslie and Rudy Reimer are happy to talk about what they’re doing. Fishing for answers on how to raise fish indoors is
Recipe Swap – for Feb. 17, 2011
If dried peas don’t strike you as something to use when you’re baking, you probably haven’t heard about the flour made from them. Green split pea flour, whole yellow flour and chickpea flour are a line of Manitobamade flours now passing taste tests in kitchens around the country as home bakers hear about their health
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