Hunting with whiskey jacks
Canada jays, or whiskey jacks, are bold little deer hunting pals that don’t mind getting close, if it means a piece of the offal or deer fat left over from a successful forest hunt in Manitoba. 
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It’s 888 CE. In Europe, the Vikings are rampaging through England and France and the Carolingian dynasty is losing its grip on the Holy Roman Empire. In China, the Tang Dynasty is in power. In what’s now Saskatchewan, Indigenous peoples are living through a dry spell that would last another three or four decades. Scientists
October 19, 2022Rebuilding after losing the farm to war
Volodymyr Fedorchuk may have lost his farm business because of the war. But he hasn’t lost heart and he’s ready to start new projects. I first met him years ago, at a Ukraine conference on the use of liquid fertilizers held by a well-known American company. It turned out that we were compatriots. His hometown
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What to do with a mountain of wool? It’s a question Manitoba sheep producers ask every year. Ingrid Stalman, who was at the Manitoba Sheep Association booth during the recent Manitoba Fibre Festival, talked about the annual problem. “If I don’t do anything with the wool, I still have literally a mountain of wool coming
October 12, 2022Manitoba sisters follow parents’ pioneering ways to innovative plant ‘milk’
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October 11, 2022The greatest fishing spot in Manitoba
My friend Roald wanted to catch a catfish with his fly rod. I have fly-fished for decades, and the river had been fishing well, so took him out in mid-August. First cast, literally, he struck and landed a 36-inch catfish of about 22 pounds. Over the next three hours he landed eight more, all between
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