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Tea Types

Black Tea Most commonly used in North American tea bags, black tea is made from fully oxidized leaves, which produce a hearty, deep, rich flavour in a coloured amber brew. Ceylon, Darjeeling, Earl Grey, are a few examples of black teas. Green Tea Most popular in Asia, green tea is not oxidized. It is withered,
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Join The Celebrations

What memories do you have of Canada’s national parks? Is it strolling along the shores of Clear Lake, or swimming in the lake’s cold, clear water? Relaxing beside a campfire and your tent while you watch a beautiful sunset over Lake Audy and listen to the mournful wail of a loon? Or perhaps you’ve travelled
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Add Sanitizing To Spring Kitchen Cleanup

As soon as I heard someone open the door to our patio, I knew a cleanup was in our future. Our three dachshunds rushed into the house, leaving muddy paw prints in their wake. Our youngest dog, not quite one year old, ran around the living room, hopped on the couch, grabbed a shoe and
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Flowering Bulbs Start The Season

Spring flowering bulbs surely kick-start the growing season with their displays of bloom. Bright-red tulips, brilliant-yellow daffodils, and cobalt-blue grape hyacinths provide vivid colour to many Prairie gardens at the time when many other perennials are still just awakening from their long winter sleep. One spring-flowering bulb that I really enjoy in my garden is
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Welcome Back Orioles

In early May I look forward to the arrival of the Baltimore oriole. After weeks of concern, imagining that they may have perished in the terrible storms of the southern states during their travels back, they finally arrive. They are usually back before the leaves are on the trees, do some mating and then begin
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Fiddleheads — Free For The Picking

Some people are unapologetic foragers. They are morel hunters, berry pickers and hazelnut gatherers. Along with morels, fiddleheads are one of the most popular wild delicacies of spring, and like morel hunters, fiddlehead foragers are very secretive about their harvesting locations. Fiddleheads are the coiled, immature fronds of the ostrich fern. They acquired their name
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New Rural Economic Champs Appointed

The province has named 12 people to its Champions of the New Rural Economy program, designed to put rural innovators into contact with key business, community and government leaders, Agriculture Minister Stan Struthers announced at the Capturing Opportunities conference in Brandon. “It is my pleasure to recognize and announce these successful and energetic entrepreneurs who
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Planning To Do Some Renovations?

Spring is synonymous with home renovations and their associated horror stories, due to inexperienced or deceitful contractors and trades people, or those do-it-yourselfers who don’t know what they’re doing. Both situations can result in misery and extra cost. My family is currently undergoing a major renovation, both inside and out. We have an excellent contractor
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Two-Day Nature Conservancy Event

A beautiful and ecologically significant parcel of land was the educational site for a group of 16 students from Rossburn High School last month. They were there to further their knowledge in both the Outdoor Education and Land Management and Water Resources courses in which they are registered. The Nature Conservancy of Canada-owned land is
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Grab And Go

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA EXTENSION Devastating disasters like a flood are a vivid reminder of life’s uncertainty. With the high likelihood of spring flooding in many areas, ask yourself if you would know what to grab if you only had minutes to escape from your home. “The plans you have made in advance and the items

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