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Beautiful African American woman and her daughter cooking in the kitchen
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Plan ahead for healthy and affordable eating

Prairie Fare: Don’t plan on just winging it in the kitchen — having a strategy will help you

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One of the best ways to save money and stay on top of healthy eating goals is to make a meal plan. Whether you jot notes on the family calendar, create detailed lists or use an online planning tool, taking time to plan what you want to make and eat can help you save money,
Kim Keller speaks at Ag Days 2018. The trade show dedicated an afternoon to mental health in agriculture.
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Bringing farm mental health issues out into the open, one tweet at a time

Mental health and agriculture has exploded in the last year, and a lineup 
of this year’s Ag Days speakers have been leading the charge

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Lesley Kelly can tell you all about how mental health affects the farm. She can tell you about watching the self-destructive spiral as anxiety and negative thoughts build on to each other. She has intimate knowledge on the weight of life crashing down around harvest. She knows how it feels to suddenly burst into tears.
Diane Twerdun demonstrates the playing of a tsymbaly.
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Keeping a piece of Ukrainian culture alive

Passion for sharing music led to crafting 
the tsymbaly, playing it and giving lessons

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The tsymbaly has played a big role in the life of Rossburn, Manitoba resident Diane Twerdun and her late husband, Harry. From crafting the instrument, to playing it and giving lessons, the Twerduns kept this piece of Ukrainian culture alive locally, and across the country. Twerdun has been passionate about sharing her enjoyment of music
Myrna Ronald, a volunteer for Focus Africa, with their display at Manitoba Farm Women’s Conference.
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Focus Africa — helping women in need

Winnipeg group partners with African-led resource centre

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Focus Africa is a small group of Winnipeggers, half Canadian born and half African born, who partner with Beacon of Hope (BOH), an African-led resource centre in a slum near Nairobi, Kenya. Myrna Ronald is one of numerous volunteers raising money to help Beacon of Hope. She has accompanied her husband (an Infectious Disease physician)
Mechanization, ‘that extra hired man’
Our History

Mechanization, ‘that extra hired man’

Our History: January 1960

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More than 100 Manitoba livestock producers had purchased this electric mix mill advertised in our January 7, 1960 issue. It could mix and grind up to four ingredients at a cost of 23 cents per ton. Free trade, or the lack of it, was the main news item on the front page that week. Manitoba
Supporters of the Arborg and District Growing project pose for a portrait on harvest day. Meaza Melkamu, (second from right), a policy adviser working for the Foodgrains Bank’s conservation agriculture program in Nairobi was on site to take part in the harvest gathering that afternoon.
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Growing projects celebrate a successful 2017

Canadian Foodgrains Bank ‘farm’ last year covered 
16,640 acres and stretched from the Maritimes to Alberta

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Canadian Foodgrains Bank staff often refer to growing project acres planted across the country as “the farm,” and last year it covered 16,640 acres. Projects from P.E.I. to Alberta involving what also adds up to thousands of supporters sowed them to wheat, barley, corn, pulses, soybeans, canola and other grains. Roughly 5,000 of the Canadian
Flowering plants are the largest, most important and newest type of plants.
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How flowers won

Flowering plants conquered the world, 
now scientists think they know why

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It’s a problem that puzzled even geneticist Charles Darwin so much he called it the “abominable mystery” — how did flowering plants take over the world? They’re relative newcomers, yet they dominate most landscapes, are incredibly diverse, form the basis of our food system and drive the animal diversity we see all around us. A
Annexes were built when more grain storage was needed than the elevator could provide. During the Second World War, numerous annexes were built across the Prairies to hold grain that could not be shipped to European markets. “Balloon annexes” were wooden frame structures, so named due to their tendency to balloon outward from the weight of grain inside. Here we see the Manitoba Pool elevator at Eden, in the RM of Rosedale, that had three balloon annexes when this photo was taken in the late 1940s. Built in 1928, the elevator closed in December 1977. Its railway line was abandoned in early 1981 and the tracks were removed. The elevator is no longer present at the site.
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PHOTOS: This Old Elevator: January 2018

The Manitoba Historical Society wants to gather information about all the grain elevators in Manitoba

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In the 1950s, there were over 700 grain elevators in Manitoba. Today, there are fewer than 200. You can help to preserve the legacy of these disappearing “Prairie sentinels.” The Manitoba Historical Society (MHS) is gathering information about all elevators that ever stood in Manitoba, regardless of their present status. Collaborating with the Manitoba Co-operator it is
Vegetables should fill at least half your plate for a healthy meal.
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Study shows more benefits of family mealtimes

Prairie Fare: Here are a few tips to help you make regular family mealtimes a reality

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One morning as I was brushing my teeth, I heard a snippet on a news program about new Canadian family meals research. I zipped into the living room with my toothbrush still in hand, wanting to hear more. We at the NDSU Extension Service launched “The Family Table” a year ago to encourage families to
An 1890 photo of a Great North West Central (GNWC) passenger train pulling into the GNWC’s station at Forrest, Manitoba. A large crowd can be seen on the station platform. Given the crowd appears to be very well dressed and the date of the photo is given as 1890, it is likely the image shows the inaugural run of passenger service.
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The Great North West Central Railway

This colonization railway has a colourful history but is all but forgotten today

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In the early 1880s, the Government of Canada put in place a policy of granting land subsidies to small railway companies in the hope these companies would build rail lines into areas of the Prairies distant from the Canadian Pacific main line and so open these areas to homesteaders. One of these so-called “colonization” railways

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