In A Pickle Over Blight – for Sep. 23, 2010

Disheartened to see our garden tomatoes infected with blight this year, but determined to salvage something, I took the least-damaged green fruits (nothing ripened this year!), cut off the blemishes and proceeded to can twenty 500-ml jars of green tomato pickle. It was only after the last lid snapped, that I began to wonder: even


Recipe Swap – for Sep. 23, 2010

ROASTED ROOT VEGETABLES Roasting a blend of root vegetables is so easy and produces a highly flavourful veggie dish even the pickiest eaters at your dinner table should find tasty. This recipe comes from theManitoba Women’s Institute 1910-2010cookbook published in commemoration of their centennial this year. RATATOUILLE I love this stewed vegetable dish and make

Editor’s Note – for Sep. 23, 2010

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Celebrating A Century Of Progress – for Sep. 16, 2010

Women running farm homes a century ago could scarcely have imagined the clean, comfortable, and efficient homes of their daughters and granddaughters. But they could envision a better quality of life, and today’s farm families owe a debt of gratitude to those women who fought for amenities such as electricity and running water, and encouraged