The Prairie Fruit Growers Association Berry Hotline

RECIPE SWAP We love getting your recipes! If you are looking for a specific recipe and think our readers might have it, send us your request too. We will publish your requests too! should now be taking calls as another long-awaited berry-picking season begins. But, as always, phone the farm before you go. Manitoba’sfruit growers

W – for Jun. 18, 2009

RECIPE SWAP It’s anyone’s guess what will happen in the fields this spring, but at least we know some of our garden vegetables, such as lettuce, leeks and onions, will likely do well in this cool weather. I transplanted bunching onions from the garden at the farm to our town garden and they’re doing just


Wanted: A Close Shave That Isn’t A Ripoff

Excessive greed creates opportunity. If a collapsing economy caused mainly by unbridled greed is not enough of a wake-up call, a trip down the grocery store aisle will do the trick. It seems perverse that even as the buying power of society in general is weakened, the cost of food is soaring. But like many