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Supporters of the Arborg and District Growing project pose for a portrait on harvest day. Meaza Melkamu, (second from right), a policy adviser working for the Foodgrains Bank’s conservation agriculture program in Nairobi was on site to take part in the harvest gathering that afternoon.
Country Crossroads

Growing projects celebrate a successful 2017

Canadian Foodgrains Bank ‘farm’ last year covered 
16,640 acres and stretched from the Maritimes to Alberta

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Canadian Foodgrains Bank staff often refer to growing project acres planted across the country as “the farm,” and last year it covered 16,640 acres. Projects from P.E.I. to Alberta involving what also adds up to thousands of supporters sowed them to wheat, barley, corn, pulses, soybeans, canola and other grains. Roughly 5,000 of the Canadian
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Ag Days gives back to Manitobans

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Every year Ag Days tries to give something back to Manitoba’s agriculture sector and rural communities. This year they’re slated to provide $26,000 in grants to agriculture-related charities, organizers say. “We want to support the communities that our exhibitors and patrons live in,” said Kristen Phillips, Manitoba Ag Days general manager. “Being able to contribute
It takes many pairs of hands to keep the bustling Carman MCC Thrift Shop operating. The non-profit enterprise’s success is due as much from generous time put in by volunteers as the plentiful donations and customers supporting it, says the organization’s president Frank Elias (front right).
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Blessings from bargains

Sales of donated items at the MCC Thrift Shop in Carman this year generate $240,000 for Mennonite Central Committee’s international relief, development and peace work

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Stella Wiebe has cut up about 4,000 pairs of blue jeans for quilt blocks over the years. But that’s certainly not the only thing she’s done during her long stint volunteering with Carman Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Thrift Shop. She’s been volunteering with the non-profit enterprise since its start, and today is still among its
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Ag Days charitable giving deadline nears

Application deadline is Nov. 15

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Ag Days is reminding eligible organizations and individuals the application deadline for its annual giving program is drawing near. Non-profit groups and Assiniboine Community College agribusiness students have until Nov. 15 to apply for the 2018 Manitoba Ag Days Gives Back community giving program and an annual scholarship program. Up to $27,000 is awarded each
Heritage Co-op’s Marketplace on Richmond drew the lunch crowd in Brandon for one of several FCC Drive Away Hunger events the company has on the schedule this month.
Local news, Other

Manitobans sign up to Drive Away Hunger

Farm Credit Canada (FCC) hopes to add at least five million 
meals’ worth of support to Canada’s food banks through its 
over-month-long Drive Away Hunger campaign

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Combines may be busy on the field, but Farm Credit Canada (FCC) is occupied with a different kind of harvest. This year marks 14 years of FCC’s Drive Away Hunger campaign, a joint fundraising and food drive held nationally by FCC each fall in support of Food Banks Canada. The program launched Sept. 6 and
From left, MP Doug Eyolfson, Bob Granke, chair of Canadian Foodgrains Bank, Minister Jim Carr, MP Terry Duguid, and MP Dan Vandal were on hand to announce $125 million Canadian Foodgrains Bank funding.
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Funding continued for Foodgrains Bank

The federal government commitment ensures stable funding for the next five years

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The federal government is renewing its partnership with the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, promising $125 million to the organization over the next five years. “I think this is an opportunity for the government of Canada to support the wonderful work of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank and also to say to all of those farmers who are
The Manitoba chapter of the CFGB hosts a fall banquet every year to gather and thank participants from across the province.
Local news

CFGB to celebrate successful harvest with fall banquet events

This year Manitoba communities have grown approximately 5,600 acres that will be donated to the Canadian Foodgrains Bank

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The final tally isn’t quite in yet, but communities throughout Manitoba have once again produced a sizable harvest for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB). “You never know exactly at this time of year, but I am seeing about 5,600 acres and that includes a project in Thunder Bay, Ont., as well,” said Harold Penner, CFGB
Local resident, Brian Archibald, captured a number of drone images of the Killarney Grow Project’s harvest day action.
Local news

Bringing a community together for a cause

In its eighth year, the Killarney Grow Project has seen tremendous 
community support for its Canadian Foodgrains Bank efforts

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A Killarney charity project has resulted in a show of neighbourliness that will stretch around the globe. The occasion was the harvest of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB) Killarney Grow Project, and it wound up being a display that impressed even the organizers. “It is amazing how the community came together. For the three swather
Dennis and Betty Turner recently returned to Killarney from a trip to 
Ethiopia with the Canadian Foodgrains Bank.
Country Crossroads, Local news

Following the donation trail

Betty and Dennis Turner got to see their Foodgrains Bank efforts pay off first hand in Ethiopia

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A tour through drought-plagued Ethiopia is an experience Betty Turner says she’’ll never forget. “We tried to prepare ourselves for what you read about and what you see on TV but there is really nothing like seeing it first hand,” said Turner. “We asked the local farmers what more we could do and they said,
The Killarney Growing Project saw a number of volunteers help to harvest 6,406 bushels of canola for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank.
Crops, Local news

Manitoba producers show support for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank

Manitoba’s rural communities stepped up to improve world food security — and had a blast doing it

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The Killarney Growing Project put on an impressive display as community volunteers brought out 17 combines to take part in harvest efforts for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFB). “There were 17 combine operators, a few semi trucks, a grain cart, and it took just 58 minutes to harvest 148 acres,” said Betty Turner, project volunteer

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