"This is leaps and bounds for us. It's a huge step to growing our business." – Lisa Dyck

Manitoba ice-cream maker to share facilities at Notre Dame Creamery

Dairy farmer turned ice-cream maker 
Lisa Dyck has produced her gourmet 
ice cream at the University of Manitoba’s Dairy Pilot plant until now

Manitoba’s first on-farm milk producer turned food processor is making a big move as 2016 begins. Lisa Dyck, who launched Cornell Creme gourmet ice cream made from milk from her family’s Anola-area farm’s 120-cow dairy herd in 2013 is moving her production to the Notre Dame Creamery. She’s made her popular line of ice-cream flavours

Butter in dish

Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries bets on local food

Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries dedicates 25 per cent of food budget to local food purchasing

Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries doubled the amount of local food it bought to serve in restaurants at its two Winnipeg casinos’ restaurants this year, now dedicating 25 per cent of its annual $4-million food budget to local food purchasing. The food is served at its restaurants at Club Regent and McPhillips Station where approximately 9,000


Butter lovers are smiling because of better news about health, and 2014 consumption was almost six per cent higher than the previous five-year average.

Butter back in consumers’ good books

Once the bad boy of foods, butter is regaining its place 
at the table as consumers look to richer tastes

Consumers are beginning to warm up to butter — again. After years of anti-fat admonishments, diets and fads, butter is regaining popularity, according to Dairy Farmers of Manitoba. “It’s an amazing story, because years ago the medical profession said butter was bad for you,” said Henry Holtman, the organization’s vice-chairman. “Now that whole opinion has

glass and pitcher of milk

Have you applauded a cow lately?

Prairie Fare: Cheesy Tortilla Mini Pizzas

As I finished my glass of ice-cold milk, I thought about my now 20-year-old son’s comments many years ago. He always has enjoyed milk. When he was a toddler, we would hear his tiny voice saying “want milk” in the early-morning hours. He wanted his milk and cereal pronto. One day, as our toddler gazed



Saputo profit jumps 17 pct on higher cheese, butter prices

Reuters – Canada’s largest dairy producer Saputo Inc reported a 17 per cent jump in quarterly earnings on Thursday, boosted by higher U.S. cheese and butter prices and recent acquisitions. The Montreal-based company, whose brands include Dairyland and 1/2 Moon cakes, said it intends to buy back 5 per cent of its common shares during


Dairy farmer Lisa Dyck launched a line of hand-crafted ice creams made from milk from the dairy farm she and her husband own between Beausejour and Anola.  photo: lorraine stevenson

Made-in-Manitoba ice cream flying off store shelves

Customers are happily forking over between $11 and $12 
for a litre of this premium, made-in-Manitoba ice cream

Lisa Dyck is going lickity split as summer arrives, ramping up production of a cool treat Manitobans haven’t tasted in a long time — made-in-Manitoba ice cream. This spring the Anola-area dairy producer launched Cornell Creme, a premium ice cream made from the milk of the 120 cows that she and husband William Dyck milk.

More questions for Reena

Dear Reena, My husband decided to put a really hot cardboard pizza box on my brand new solid wood table. I removed the thin tablecloth off of the table to shake out the crumbs and found a white square imprint. After trying to figure out what it was and using some Pledge with natural orange


Recipe Swap: Operation Donation

If you’re a Farmers’ Almanac reader, you’ll have heard of the ‘Wolf moon’ of January and February’s ‘Hunger moon.’ Aboriginal people gave these names to the months of winter because there wasn’t much food around. The heavy snow of February made hunting very difficult. A different sort of ‘hunger moon’ hangs over those with empty

Man awarded $7.2 million in ‘popcorn lung’ lawsuit

Reuters / A U.S. Federal Court jury has awarded a Colorado man $7.2 million in damages for developing a chronic condition known as “popcorn lung” from a chemical used in flavouring microwave popcorn. Jurors agreed with the claims by Wayne Watson, 59, that the popcorn manufacturer and the supermarket chain that sold it were negligent