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Feeding Our Habit

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Despite the millions of starving people in the world in the autumn of 2007, a looming expansion in use, and successive low-yielding crops, the market was telling us not to grow food. Longtime readers of my prognostications will note that I predicted the biofuel market would make grain prices more volatile, but not necessarily higher.
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Winnipeg Group Seeks Backyard Chicken Option

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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
Country Crossroads

Traditional High-Fat Diets Offer Health Benefits

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Born in 1939 in a remote community on Vancouver Island, Richard Atleo’s earliest food memories are of villagers eating feasts of salmon and seafood, foraged berries and gathered plant roots he can recall were “piled as high as a house.” Food at home was in stark contrast to the white bread, potatoes with a little
Country Crossroads

Add Some Herbs To Your Menu

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Although I’d like to say “good nutrition” is the No. 1 factor people use when choosing foods, “good taste” rates the highest. Adding fresh and dried herbs can improve flavour and help reduce fat and salt in your favourite recipes. Herbs virtually add no calories, yet they add distinctive flavours. They get their characteristic aromas
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Northern food insecurity

“We see a very, very bad and a very, very big problem,” Uche Nwankwo, Intern Professor at the Natural Resources Institute

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Hunger haunts three out of four households in northern Manitoba with some families going entire days without food, new research has found. Last summer a team of researchers from the University of Manitoba’s Natural Resources Centre surveyed 473 households in 14 communities across Manitoba’s north. They found a 75 per cent incidence of household food
Livestock

Cuba Frees Farmers To Sell To Havana Markets

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Cuba, yielding to public complaints, said June 11 it would allow farmers to sell more food directly to Havana’s often sparse produce markets, and also replaced the country’s agriculture minister. Farmers have long said the state failed to adequately move their produce to market, while consumers have complained food is often scarce and of poor
Livestock

S – for Jun. 10, 2010

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outh Africa’s food prices will rise gradually from 2011 partly as the economic recovery gains pace, increasing the likelihood of more protests, the Agricultural Business Chamber said June 2. Households, especially in the lower-income level, spend a large chunk of their income on food and higher food prices in recent years contributed to millions of
Country Crossroads

Butterflies: A Reminder Of Biodiversity’s Role

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Are nettles a thing of beauty? Every spr ing my mother bends over her flower garden yanking any greenery even slightly related to nettles. With a toss over her shoulder, these withering plants do not even get a parting glance. In her eyes these plants are downright ugly, even worse than quack grass. Who finds
Country Crossroads

Make Your Habitat Wildlife Friendly

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If you’re like me, you love listening to the sweet song of birds or catching a glimpse of a brightly coloured butterfly fluttering by. There is so much beauty to enjoy in the natural world – and so much to benefit from, too. For instance, insects such as bees and butterflies are important worldwide for

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