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Arts and crafts filled the cold winter days before Christmas in a rural Manitoba classroom.
Farmit Manitoba, Other

‘Twas the season: a Christmas story

Ms. Mandzuk taught Grade 2 kids important Christmas skills like tracing, colouring, cutting and gluing

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With a cold spell, the Christmas season suddenly arrived at the Basswood School. I was in Grade 2 in 1967 in that Manitoba hamlet. Like most of my peers, we talked about it, but really didn’t know what to do. However, our resourceful teacher came to the rescue. Ms. Mandzuk had to handle both the
The Lake Ranch project marks the start of NCC’s grasslands campaign in Manitoba.
Farmit Manitoba, News

Nature Conservancy of Canada inks massive land deal

Grazing will remain an integral part of the 6,700 acre Lake Ranch project

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The Nature Conservancy of Canada is launching a “once in a generation” project in the wake of a 6,700-acre private land donation. The property is northwest of Winnipeg in the Rural Municipality of Woodlands, on the shores of East Shoal Lake. The NCC wants it to become an accessible conservation area that will engage local
Rick Andrews and his wife Judy at the DUC land dedication event.
Farmit Manitoba, News, Other

DUC honours conservation leader

Long-serving staff member recognized his love for nature at an early age

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As a child, Rick Andrews could see the future. “I was one of those very fortunate people who knew what I wanted to do at a very young age,” he says. By the time Andrews was in his pre-teens, he had become enamoured with the outdoors and knew he wanted to work in conservation and
These beautiful butterflies were the inspiration for one macrame project for students.
Farmit Manitoba

Macramé and monarchs

The pandemic restarted a love for a childhood craft that’s back in fashion

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My brother, the other Mr. Moore, would like to bring his class to tour your colony and learn about Hutterite life,” our teacher informed us one day. “As a token of appreciation, they’ll teach our class how to make macramé plant hangers.” Patrick Moore was our middle grades teacher and his brother was a high
Bruce Campbell speaks at the grand opening of the Bruce D. Campbell Farm and Food Discovery Centre on September 16, 2011.
Farmit Manitoba, Other

Bruce D. Campbell leaves lasting agriculture legacy

Passages: Landmark Feeds owner turned efforts to philanthropic work after sale of business

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Bruce D. Campbell was a successful agriculture entrepreneur. But following his death last month, he’s being just as widely remembered for his philanthropic work later in life. Campbell grew up on his family’s farm in Chater, Manitoba, just west of Brandon. He was born on June 25, 1936 to Duncan and Kathleen Campbell. After finishing
This 36-foot-long tomato growing in the United States Botanic Garden greenhouse in Washington, D.C. celebrated its first birthday in March.
Farmit Manitoba

Titanic tomato is science fact, not science fiction

Hydroponically fed, it just keeps growing more than 14 months after being planted

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Science fiction often portrays giant plants as monsters — think Audrey II from “Little Shop of Horrors,” and the marauding Triffids in “Day of the Triffids.” But the titanic tomato growing soilless here in the United States Botanic Garden greenhouse for more than a year seems benign enough, but its size and age make it
Musician and rancher Corb Lund says it doesn’t make sense to destroy a beautiful landscape for something that is already being produced in abundance elsewhere.
Farmit Manitoba, News, Other

Canadian country music star spurs unlikely coalition against coal

Corb Lund says the region where he grew up ranching has brought a lot of people together to defend it

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Thomson Reuters – With hits like the “Roughest Neck Around” that celebrate oil workers, Canadian country rocker Corb Lund might not be an obvious choice as a campaigner against fossil fuel expansion. But the music star has taken on an unexpected new role, as a leader of efforts to stop new open-pit coal mines in
One of Al Ayotte’s three water retention dams.
Farmit Manitoba, Other

Water retention projects show promise for drought protection

Funds from the MHHC-stewarded GROW trust has allowed watershed districts to ramp up water conservation projects

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It was a simple equation for Al Ayotte. It was a dry 2020 summer, and water was seeping out of his sandy-soiled pasture into a drain and flowing off his property. “It doesn’t make sense, and it gets me mad,” he said. “Let’s go reverse. Let’s pile up some water and let the water go
This aerial photo from the early 1960s shows the consolidated school in the field behind the village of Basswood.
Farmit Manitoba, Other

A pile of memories

Bulldozed snow mountain creates Tower of Babel for Basswood schoolchildren

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I cannot imagine a better winter “toy” for Grade 3 farm boys than a bulldozed 14-foot-high mountain of snow in March. It literally was a pile of fun. Plus it may have had a few aspects in common with the ancient biblical “Tower of Babel.” Early March 1969, delivered a sudden blizzard and with it,
Presenting — and voting on — policy resolutions, as seen here in a 2017 file photo, is an important part of KAP and other advocacy groups. Reg Dyck is making sure his students know how the system works.
Farmit Manitoba, Other

An education in engagement

Ag in the Classroom resolution ‘educational’ for ag diploma students

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There are problems. And then there are problem solvers. Reg Dyck teaches a course encouraging the latter. “It’s easy for farmers to bitch and complain,” Dyck, who farms at Starbuck and teaches ‘Issues in Agriculture and Food’ as part of the University of Manitoba’s diploma in agriculture, said in an interview Feb. 10. “Each of

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