Listeria shed awareness on food safety

“You can’t inspect safety into food. You must build safety in.” – Richard Holley As listeria fades to the back pages, University of Manitoba researcher Richard Holley wants the public to know that there is more to fear from foodborne pathogens like campylobacter and salmonella than the listeria pathogen. Holley’s job in the faculty of

Rose-breeding program understated

When we were growing up on our farm at Snowflake in the ’40s and ’50s, one of our annual highlights was a car trip to the Morden Experimental Farm to admire the herbaceous borders, unusual trees, and the orchards where new varieties of fruit for the Prairies were being developed and tested. Besides ornamentals, there