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Manitobans challenged to DIG IN

By Lorraine Stevenson April 20, 2012

Initiative of Food Matters Manitoba challenges Manitobans to spend $10 a week of their grocery money on a local food purchase An urban-based food issues think-tank is challenging Manito-bans to make this the year they start buying more local food and connecting with the people who grow it. The Dig In Challenge is a five-month

Hogs, Livestock, News, Opinion

Short-sighted solution to the wrong problem

By Laura Rance-Unger April 15, 2012

It would be giving the animal a gene, which nature made a mistake by not giving them.” If there is one sentence that captures why the world’s first GMO pig never made it to market, it would be this comment from one of the lead researchers on the University of Guelph project back in 2001.

Country Crossroads, News

Rossburn Elementary receives WRAPP grant

By Darrell Nesbitt March 29, 2012

An ongoing project at the Rossburn Elementary School is definitely not for the squeamish, but it plays a very important role in waste reduction. Overseen by resource teacher Iris Furman, students in each classroom take turns doing worm chores. “Composting has been an initiative of ours in the past, but thanks to a $4,293 grant

Country Crossroads, News

Plenty on the plate for food security groups

By Lorraine Stevenson March 29, 2012

Residents of Winnipeg’s St. Vital neighbourhood are digesting the results of a newly released study that reflects what matters to them about food. The Winnipeg suburb is one of several sites in Manitoba to undergo community food assessments in recent months, an initiative to better understand where residents buy or access food, if they grow

News

OPAM trims costs to be more competitive

By Daniel Winters March 23, 2012

Streamlined operations and paperwork put Manitoba’s only homegrown  organic certifying body back on the road to financial health

Manitoba’s own organic certification body is well on its way back to financial health. The Organic Producers of Manitoba, founded in 2005, was hit by a cash crunch as organic’s boom years ground to a halt, said president Edward Lelond. “We were anticipating growth before it happened, and then we hit the recession of 2008,”

News

Safe manure handling vital

March 24, 2012

Recent cases of people becoming ill in Europe from vegetables contaminated with human fecal matter remind producers that handling animal manure safely is important. “Animal manures contain pathogens that can cause health issues in animals and humans if the manure isn’t managed properly,” says Chris Augustin, nutrient management specialist at North Dakota State University’s Carrington

News

Turning waste into black gold

March 23, 2012

Manitoba’s first composting co-operative, Compostages Manitoba Services Cooperative, is now ready to offer municipalities and agricultural producers an affordable and eco-responsible alternative to dealing with organic matter. Compostages Manitoba Services Cooperative will be hosting its first organizational meeting on Tuesday March 27 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Cabane a Sucre in St. Pierre

News

Experts search for ways to cut food waste

By Ernest Scheyder, Lisa Baertlein March 24, 2012

Reuters — Cleaning your plate may not help feed starving children today, but the time-worn advice of mothers everywhere may help reduce food waste from the farm to the fork, help the environment and make it easier to feed the world’s growing population. Hard data is still being collected, but experts at the Reuters Food

News

Briefs Feb. 23

March 5, 2012

La Broquerie farmer recognized Staff / La Broquerie farmer Gerry Dube has been honoured by the Manitoba Eco-Network for his efforts in sustainable agriculture. Dube was among four recipients of the annual Anne Lindsey Protecting Our Earth Awards Feb. 3. Dube was a founding member of the Organic Food Council of Manitoba as well as

Opinion

Climate Change Adaptation Is A Priority

By Carol Thiessen November 10, 2011

Here at the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, we ve been saying that a lot over the past couple of years. For smallholder farmers, women, fisher folk and other people especially vulnerable to climate change, support in adapting to the changes they re experiencing is more important than trying to slow those changes. After all, they produce

Daily Network News

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Bring focused approach to target systems, not producers says animal activist

Canada’s Food Price Report shows meat, pantry goods prices expected to rise “a lot” in 2026

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Manitobans challenged to DIG IN

Short-sighted solution to the wrong problem

Rossburn Elementary receives WRAPP grant

Plenty on the plate for food security groups

OPAM trims costs to be more competitive

Safe manure handling vital

Turning waste into black gold

Experts search for ways to cut food waste

Briefs Feb. 23

Climate Change Adaptation Is A Priority

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