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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

Seven Billion And Growing

By Shannon VanRaes November 17, 2011

To me this is the major problem facing the world, said Michael Trevan, dean of the faculty of agricultural and food sciences at the University of Manitoba. Climate change may come and go… but we ve got a bigger problem on our hands. He noted world population is expected to reach 9.5 billion in the

Cereals, News

Candidates Debate Food Issues

By Shannon VanRaes September 22, 2011

Candidates in Manitoba s provincial election risked eating their words earlier this month, at a debate on food-related election issues in downtown Winnipeg. Troy Osiname, Liberal candidate for Seine River, Gord Mackintosh, NDP candidate for St. Johns and Kelvin Goertzen, Progressive Conservative candidate for Steinbach fielded questions from Food Matters Manitoba and members of the

Country Crossroads

Cooking Contest For Manitoba High School Students Launched

October 28, 2010

Food Matters Manitoba has launched its first-ever cooking competition open to all high school students. Teams of students across Manitoba in Grades 9-12 are encouraged to enter a local food recipe they’ve created themselves which represents a yummy, healthy dish that also reflects the kinds of seasonal foods available in mid-winter in Manitoba. The winning

News

Urban Agriculture Growing In Winnipeg – for Sep. 23, 2010

By Ron Friesen September 23, 2010

The tomatoes are ripe, the salad greens have been sold and another growing season is nearly done at Almost Urban Vegetables in St. Norbert. Despite a fourth consecutive harvest under their belts, Bruce Berry and Marilyn Firth are reluctant to call their business a farm. It sounds a bit ostentatious. They prefer the term market

News, Poultry

Winnipeg Group Seeks Backyard Chicken Option

By Ron Friesen June 24, 2010

Darby Jones moved a small step closer last week toward enabling Winnipeggers to do what many rural Manitobans do: raise chickens in their backyards. A Winnipeg civic committee voted to refer Jones’s backyard chicken petition to a city council committee for further study. The Riel Community Committee passed the issue on to the city’s standing

News

“Alternative” Systems Get Mainstream Funding

By Lorraine Stevenson February 11, 2010

“We’re thinking about more diverse ways of building relationships across the Prairie provinces. We’re not talking about 100-mile diets here.” – STPHANE MCLACHLAN The federal government is providing $1 million for a five-year project in Manitoba to develop more community-based alternative food systems for rural, urban and northern Manitoba. The Community University Research Alliance (CURA)

U.S. livestock: Hog futures hit contract highs on shock herd decline

Alberta Crop Report: Harvest more than three-quarters finished

NFU says proposed plant breeders’ rights come at farmers’ expense

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U.S. livestock: Hog futures hit contract highs on shock herd decline

Alberta Crop Report: Harvest more than three-quarters finished

NFU says proposed plant breeders’ rights come at farmers’ expense

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Plenty on the plate for food security groups

Seven Billion And Growing

Candidates Debate Food Issues

Cooking Contest For Manitoba High School Students Launched

Urban Agriculture Growing In Winnipeg – for Sep. 23, 2010

Winnipeg Group Seeks Backyard Chicken Option

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