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Herbs add flavour and few, if any, calories to a meal.
Other, Recipe Swap

Add some new flavours to your menu

More herbs can help keep recipes flavourful while reducing fat and salt

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Do you know what’s in the sauce?” I asked the server. “Do you not like it?” he asked. I need to adjust my facial expression, I thought to myself. “Oh, I like it a lot. I’m just wondering what the ingredients are,” I responded with a smile. “I am not sure, but I will check
St. Mary’s/St. Alban’s Anglican Church and cemetery. 
Country Crossroads, Other

Visit rural Manitoba’s historic churches

Buildings and cemeteries hold much historical information and some are designated heritage sites

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Manitoba has many historic rural churches. Some no longer operate as churches, while others hold services only occasionally, but the buildings and accompanying cemeteries are often well maintained. Country churches, those not in towns or villages, are particularly interesting. One such church is St. Mary’s/St. Alban’s Anglican Church, situated southwest of the village of Kaleida
Blue Clips will provide blooms all summer.
Country Crossroads, Other

Clips bellflowers can be used in many ways

With many varieties to choose from they will be a welcome addition to your landscape

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Many perennial borders have at least one bellflower variety in them, as the family is huge and the range of plants enormous. C. glomerata, commonly called clustered bellflower, has lovely dark-purple blooms (there is also a white and blue variegated variety), but it is quite invasive. There are bellflowers that form tufts of foliage at
Executive director, Jen Sims.
Country Crossroads, Local news, Other

VUELC cares for kids from area communities

Villages United Early Learning Centre provides much-needed licensed daycare facilities

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Through the growth and expansion of licensed daycare facilities in area communities, the non-profit organization once known as the Hamiota Kids Club Inc., is now known as Villages United Early Learning Centre Inc. (VUELC). Enrolment numbers prompted the expansion in Hamiota, along with opening new centres in the neighbouring communities of Kenton and Oak River.
That’s one rich ditch
Our History

That’s one rich ditch

Our History: May 1994

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Both the U.S. Midwest and the Canadian Prairies suffered from too much moisture in 1993, but things had switched by the spring of 1994. This photo in our May 26 issue showed a ditch full of topsoil north of Carman, the result of gale-force winds on May 17. A recently bulldozed shelterbelt could be seen
Glen Blahey has retired from the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA).
Country Crossroads, Local news, Other

Farm safety specialist reflects on career spanning nearly four decades

Glen Blahey has retired from the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association. His career also included nearly 30 years with the province of Manitoba

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It wasn’t easy trying to talk to farmers about safety in the early 1980s. Usually his talk was last on farm meeting agendas, and he’d end up speaking mostly to empty chairs, Glen Blahey recalls. Farmers then tended to see work done on the farm as no one else’s business. Or if safety mattered, it
cartoon image of a family seated at a table
Other, The Jacksons

Is that the smell of barbecue in the air? It must be spring!

The Jacksons from the May 10, 2018 issue of the Manitoba Co-operator

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“Now that’s what I call a barbecue!” Randy Jackson gazed in awe at the gleaming stainless steel contraption taking centre stage on the backyard deck of his parents’ house. “You could roast a whole hog on that thing!” “I could indeed,” said Andrew, “if it was a small enough hog. Although truthfully, the rotisserie is
The Belle, West Virginia DuPont plant on April 1, 1926, as the first high-pressure ammonia ever produced in North America began to flow.
Did you know?, News, Other

No pressure

A new process promises to produce ammonia without the 
high energy requirements of the Haber-Bosch process

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A new lower-energy catalytic reaction could change the way ammonia-based fertilizer is made in the future. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory say the approach uses small carbon spikes, aided by lithium salt and the application of an electrical field. “It’s a catalyst that operates completely based on the electric
Fresh fruit and vegetables are healthy, but take precautions to avoid foodborne illness.
Recipe Swap

Staying safe with food

Food safety scares underline 
the need for proper food 
handling for fresh produce

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A recent scare around romaine lettuce here in the U.S. (Canadian readers can rest assured they were unaffected, though the CFIA says it’s monitoring the situation) has many wondering just how safe those leafy greens really are. “Can I eat the romaine lettuce in my refrigerator?” one recent caller asked me. “No, we need to
Joe Pye Weed in a large perennial border is quite stunning 
in the late-summer garden.
Country Crossroads, Other

Hardy Joe Pye Weed

Because it is native to the area it’s tough and responds well to our harsh climate

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If you like native plants, then you probably already have a Joe Pye Weed (Eupatorium maculatum) in your garden. Native plants are reliably hardy, they respond well to local conditions and are not “finicky” to grow — a good thing — because in our harsh climate conditions plants need to be tough to survive and

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