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Bailey Gitzel sells her cookie sandwiches and French macaroons at the opening day of the Carman Farmers’ Market June 19. The 17-year-old Graysville entrepreneur also sells honey produced from her own beehives. She plans to study agriculture at university.
Local news

New specialists, more online resources for small-scale production

The government must act quickly to keep up with needs of a fast-emerging sector, says report chair

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Manitoba is acting on the recommendations for improving the working environment of small-scale farmers and processors, says Agriculture, Food and Rural Development Minister Ron Kostyshyn. Last week he and other MAFRD officials were at the St. Norbert Farmers’ Market to introduce the two business development specialists being reassigned in the department to work with these
Waldo Thiessen
Local news

Celebrating 20 years of direct farm marketing in Manitoba

Organizers of the Direct Farm Marketing conference see even more growth over the next five years

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Selling products directly off the farm is nothing new — for as long as crops have been grown, farmers have sold the fruits of their labour to friends, family and neighbours. But today there’s increasing demand from other consumers to buy directly from farmers, which was reflected in the themes at the 20th anniversary of
selling vegetables at a farmers market
Country Crossroads, Local news

Local food demand increasing the value of direct marketing

The Direct Farm Marketing Conference marks its 20th anniversary at its meeting in Brandon

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Forget the stereotype of the elderly farmer selling some garden surplus or a few jars of homemade pickles at the Saturday morning farmers’ market. Vendors selling homegrown vegetables, preserves and meat today are just as likely to be their energetic and technically savvy grandkids — or at least their age. Their small businesses aren’t just
vegetables in a market
Local news, Opinion

Manitoba’s Small Scale Food Report is food for thought

A growing number of citizens is interested in buying food direct from the farm

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Many farmers are willing to sell a side of beef, a few dozen eggs or a bag of potatoes to their acquaintances. Farmers have been direct marketing since agriculture began and it is only in the last 50 years that direct farm to consumer sales have started to be questioned. Up until then, governments encouraged
Opinion

Rules and reality

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It’s hard not to have a soft spot for farm families attempting to participate in the local food movement. For one thing, they put a fresh face on farming, as many are younger than the greying statistical demographic of Canadian farmers. That said, it’s much easier to partake in a 100-mile diet living on the
German bread roll
Crops

Farmers’ market opens early in downtown Winnipeg

Downtown Winnipeg BIZ starts whetting appetites for the 2014 farmers' market season

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Winnipeggers who love visiting farmers’ markets can start shopping early. The Downtown Winnipeg BIZ’s popular indoor farmers’ market at the Manitoba Hydro Place Gallery opened up for a one-day market on March 27, bringing together about 30 vendors to sell baked goods, perogies, vinegars, jams and preserves, potatoes as well as a variety of meats
Man making a speech.
News

Farmers’ market association assembles a new board

The Farmers’ Markets Association of Manitoba appoints four new board members

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The provincial group representing farmers’ markets is back from the brink after nearly folding for lack of a board of directors this month. Things took a decidedly humorous turn at the Farmers’ Markets Association of Manitoba’s (FMAM) annual meeting here as names of persons willing to step forward were put forward over the weekend. A
News

Farmers’ market customers willing to pay for value

Vendors often sell 
themselves short by 
competing solely on price

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Customers who seek out farmers’ markets or farm gate vendors are looking for value — not bargains, a provincial business development specialist told participants in the annual Direct Farm Marketing Conference here March 8. And what those who visit open-air markets or travel to a farm to buy direct value most is the experience of
Dairy cattle, Livestock

Dairy farmers need to push back against critics

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Canada’s 12,500 dairy farmers should be boasting about supply management and touting its benefits for consumers, says Wally Smith, president of Dairy Farmers of Canada. The B.C. dairyman took shots at supply management critics, economists, and Liberal leadership aspirants “who don’t bother to look beyond the Canadian border to see what deregulation in agriculture causes.”
Opinion, Poultry

Why have hens in your backyard?

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I spent my earliest years growing up in the north end of Winnipeg on Alfred Ave. My memories of that time are of a rich and vital neighbourhood life. We lived next door to Mrs. Lomow’s grocery store, which in addition to stocking fresh produce, seemed to a young boy to be a centre of

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