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Send Recipes Or Recipe Requests To: – for Aug. 20, 2009

RECIPE SWAP Funny how you come to love certain foods you hated as a kid. Take beet greens. “Good for you,” and “just out of the garden” failed to convinced the miserable kid I recall being every August whenever a slop of boiled beet greens landed on my plate. Today they’re a favourite summer food,
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Urban Foragers Feast On Sidewalk Salads

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Armed with pruning shears and a paper bag, Nance Klehm walks along a Chicago sidewalk, pointing out plants and weeds that can make a tasty salad or stir-fry. She snips stalks from a weed with downy leaves and white powder commonly cal led goosefoot or lamb’s quarters. “I collect a lot of this,” said Klehm,
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Editor’s Note – for Aug. 20, 2009

WELCOME TO COUNTRY CROSSROADS! If you have any stories, ideas, photos or a comment on what you’d like to see on these pages, send it to Country Crossroads, 1666 Dublin Ave, Winnipeg, Man. R3H 0H1 Phone 1-800-782-0794, fax 204-944-5562, e-mail: [email protected] I’d love to hear from you. Please remember we can no longer return material,
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Important Water Balance

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The human body is made up of about 60 per cent water, with some variability based on age and other factors. In the human body, water helps regulate temperature, protects tissues, transports nutrients and carries out wastes. We can survive without food longer than without water. The recommendation that we need eight glasses of “plain”
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Working The Land With Horses

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Isn’t it amazing how life unfolds? Although small-scale sustainable farming has always been a passion of mine, it seemed it would have to settle for hobby status. It didn’t seem possible to make a life farming in an unconventional way. But then a book caught my eye. Draft Horses Today showed pictures and told stories
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Efficiency In The Laundry Room

CONNIE OLIVER AROUND THE HOUSE I can remember my mother doing the laundry on an old wringer washer, then hanging the clothes on an outdoor clothesline. The laundry room isn’t what it used to be and the options in modern appliances and designs have made it an attractive area of the home. With another school
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Fun On The Milk Run

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“We would get home after one of the fairs, and say we weren’t going to go the next day, and the next day would come and off we’d go to the next show. It just didn’t seem right not to go. We were devastated if we didn’t get to them all.” BERTHA BROWN Some folklorists
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Organic Food No More Nutritious: Study

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A new study from Great Britain has revived the old controversy about whether organic food is better for you. The study by a team from the London School for Hygiene and Tropical Health found no major difference in the nutrient content of organically grown food compared to conventionally grown food. Any differences that do exist

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