Move over golfers. Instead of simply scooting around the greens, those nifty little carts have a higher calling – making small-town living greener. As people increasingly turn to electric golf carts for short-distance travel in smaller towns, the province has launched a study to explore wider use of these types of vehicles as part of
Golf Carts Studied For Green Transportation
A New Way To Plan For Safety
The Canadian Agricultural Safety Association is developing a program it hopes will help farmers start creating safer, healthier farm workplaces. Unveiled at CASA’s national conference last week, SécuriFerme Canada FarmSafe, or the “FarmSafe plan” as it will be called in English-speaking Canada, is essentially a “base plan” for voluntary uptake by farmers to use toward
Changing Farm “Work Culture” Key To Safety
Work is good. Hard work is better. But the sheer need to do a lot of work, combined with the value farm culture places on it, gets in the way of creating a “culture of safety” in Canadian agriculture, say experts on organizational behaviour and workplace leadership. Agriculture’s abysmal record of injuries and fatalities says
Cold Weather, Warm Kitchen
The days of getting up in darkness and returning home in same have begun. The last geese are gone and snow is arriving. November is nearly over and we’re entering The Tunnel. I confess I enjoy the arrival of winter. Winter is a quieter time. A bright day in winter produces luminous landscapes. It’s a
Communities Work With Neighbours On Economic Development
Many rural communities want to reverse population decline and reduce their local economy’s dependence on agriculture. A team of municipalities in Manitoba’s Parkland have a “how-to” plan for tackling the job. The five municipalities in the Russell area began working together on economic development a decade ago and formed the Asessippi Parkland Economic Development Corporation.
Conference Panelists Swap Leadership Stories
Those were also years when Wowchuk, a teacher by trade, was organizing Ukrainian dance clubs, working with 4-H programs, cooking at fall suppers, and volunteering with multiple community groups, while raising three kids. Wowchuk offered the candid glimpse of her personal life at the Manitoba Farm Women’s conference last week, describing her pre-government days as
Future Of Women’s Conference Contemplated
The Manitoba Farm Women’s Conference marked its 24th year this fall and remains a much welcomed post-harvest event for farm women, says its 2010 chair Beth Connery, a Portage la Prairie-area farmer. But next year’s convention, scheduled for Brandon, might be its finale. No decision has been made yet and discussions continue on the event’s
Salt Intake Unchanged In 50 Years
Despite decades of attempts to get people to shake their salt habit, there is little evidence that sodium intake has changed in over 50 years, a new study says. And, as authors of an editorial published in the November American Journal of Clinical Nutritionpoint out, more regulation of sodium in processed foods isn’t likely to
Feedback Sought On Stricter Organic Labelling Rules
Organic growers have a chance to speak up if they’re experiencing problems with new organic labelling laws. New regulations went into effect in June 2009 aimed at ensuring all products labelled “organic” or displaying the “Canada Organic” logo are certified and comply with clearly defined organic practices. But the clock is ticking down on the
SawmillTea And Coffee Co. A New Model For Rural Business
Young moms are visiting on a comfy couch while a child plays nearby. Two teenagers shoot pool. A small group of older women chat over coffee. At the table next to them a young woman reads aloud to a man in a wheelchair. The rich aroma of coffee and a lingering scent of a roast
Cyber-Savvy Farmer
