Your best (and easiest) holiday dainty tray
Make-ahead recipes, store-bought goodies and co-operation with friends and family: Here’s how to throw together a stunning, low-stress tray. 
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Getting the lay of the land
We know that life on an old glacial lake bed means periodic — and sometimes spectacular — spring flooding. In future we may also see greater amounts of summer rain as the climate warms and that could mean more frequent, locally destructive floods throughout the growing season. Building local climate resilience means managing more water
December 21, 2021Farm consolidation good for Canadian agriculture
Farm consolidation is good, cultured meat has a rosy future and the carbon tax needs greater analysis. Sylvain Charlebois, Canada’s self-described ‘Food Professor’ and director of Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab, elaborated on those points in a wide-ranging talk at the September Canadian National Millers Association’s annual meeting in Montebello, Que. “I think consolidation is
December 20, 2021Shoal Lake citizen recreates a piece of history
Before the coming of the railroad and the construction of roads, the two-wheeled “Red River cart” was the main method of land transportation in what was to become Manitoba. Due to the history and importance of such carts passing through the area, Ray Pettinger, a Shoal Lake senior with a passion for crafting turned his
December 20, 2021Farmers watch crops develop in real time
Digital agriculture. Precision agriculture. Smart agriculture. E-agriculture. These buzzwords currently circulating in the industry point to a new development in farming: using digital technology to collect, store and analyze data from producers’ fields in order to improve production on their farms. The process isn’t entirely new. For some time, farmers have been using hardware and software systems
December 14, 2021It’s fun and games ’til the Klik runs out
My childhood school field trips were a welcome relief from routine and a chance to see and experience the wider world. An escape! I had many. In 1967 — Canada’s 100th birthday — my Grade 1 class visited the ‘Centennial Train’ in Neepawa. In Grade 3, we visited Oak River for a day of sports
December 8, 2021Rover shows future of farming
R-Tech Industries of Homewood makes farm implements and, because its machines are often used by researchers, many of them come in strange shapes and sizes. They’re small, narrow, miniature versions of the big iron you usually see working the fields in production season. The smallest, strangest and narrowest of them all is the R-Tech Rover, a lightweight basic frame perched on
December 8, 2021