With museums now beginning to reopen, I decided this was the time for a long-planned visit to the Fort la Reine Museum in Portage la Prairie. Although only half an hour away from my home, this was my first visit and I certainly recommend it for anyone interested in Manitoba’s history. Fort la Reine Museum,

Nestled on the south edge of Lake Manitoba’s Delta Marsh, where it meets Portage Creek, there sits a pastoral slice of paradise. The tract covers 31 acres of riparian habitat, wetland, forest and meadow, and is home to hundreds of species of wild animals and birds — plus two humans, Cal and Elaine Cuthbert. For

Glenboro and Holland, Man. weren’t like their fellow communities to the east in early May. Heavy precipitation in late April had not made them islands, like some towns along the Red River, which had been isolated by flood water. In fact, the area in central Manitoba was one of the first to see producers hit the field, in

Successful elk farming in Manitoba doesn’t stop at the farm gate, according to Ian Thorleifson, president of the Manitoba Elk Growers Association and lead author of The Elk Farming Handbook.  Instead, he said, “Support and promotion of the product and its versatility, quality and excellence are as much a part of elk raising, as quality feeding

A Shoal Lake cattle producer likes ‘marshmallows’ — silage bales wrapped with white plastic — but wishes it were easier to dispose of the wrap. Robert Shwaluk farms just east of the community. He’s rented most of his grain land to other farmers and focuses on his purebred Black Angus cattle, hay and pastures. Weather

A month ago, a photo of a peasant household in one of the villages of northern Ukraine liberated from Russian troops spread around social networks. The occupiers deliberately scattered the grain over the dirt so that it could not be used. Something similar already happened in Ukraine in 1932-33, when the deliberate genocide of Ukrainians