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Blayne Wyton is the founder of the Morden-based company, Prairie Barnwood, a new Manitoba company producing high-end design furniture from salvaged Manitoba barns. photo: lorraine stevenson

Buildings tomorrow’s heirlooms — with yesterday’s wood

By Lorraine Stevenson September 19, 2013

Many see beauty in something old, faded and worn — but few can find uses for it. Blayne Wyton does both. His four-year-old company, Morden-based Prairie Barnwood, does a brisk business handcrafting fine furniture from boards, beans and posts salvaged from old barns in the Pembina Valley. The idea came to him during a road

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Province bulldozes Agro Woodlot Program

By Daniel Winters June 8, 2012

Manitoba Woodlot Association “disappointed” that the one-of-a-kind  program assisting small-scale forestry has been cancelled 

Manitoba’s Agro Woodlot Program has fallen to the provincial budget axe. Short-term contracts for four forestry technicians based in communities in the southern part of the province were allowed to expire in March, and grants for logging based on beneficial management practices will no longer be offered. A provincial spokesperson confirmed the Manitoba Agro Woodlot

Crops, News

Breaking into grain inspection was tough, but the rewards were worth it

April 7, 2012

By Val Ominski Debbie Pankewich has come a long way since she walked the decks of ships at Thunder Bay and sampled outgoing grain cargoes by hand. Hired in 1979 by the Canadian Grain Commission to work in the weighing program, by 1982 she was one of a small group of female “pioneers” working in

Forages, News

BioBaler makes its western Canadian debut

By Tony Kryzanowski January 17, 2012

Your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you. That really is a round baler being pulled behind a tractor through a juvenile hardwood stand and creating round bales. Canadian Wood Fibre Centre (CWFC) researchers recently demonstrated the “BioBaler,” a patented juvenile-hardwood baling system developed originally by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in collaboration with the CWFC and

Country Crossroads

Create A Christmas Centrepiece

By Blythe Kneeshaw December 10, 2009

I designed this centrepiece for a cowboy-theme Christmas banquet. To keep costs down, I went to our pasture for some small birch trees, and to my garden for wild bittersweet vines and grapevines. Armed with my trusty glue gun, some Christmas corsages from the dollar store and my sister for help, we made 20 table

Country Crossroads

Money Grows On Trees

By Daniel Winters November 19, 2009

By actively managing about 100 acres of hardwood forest, David Pogson figures he and his brother Barry’s sawmill sideline might eventually account for about one-third of their farm income within a decade. Out of the seven-acre plot from which they are doing a managed harvest, they have already removed 30 cords of firewood in the

Country Crossroads

Canadian Pioneers

By Joanne Rawluk June 25, 2009

Leaving your homeland You journeyed Bravely crossing the ocean Looking for a better life You came To a land of bush and harsh climate To back-breaking work of clearing the land and settling On ten-dollar homesteads. Every task to be done by hand With saw and axe you carved a place in the wilderness Hewing

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The Pogson brothers are harvesting trees from the same bush as their grandfather Third generation earns money from woodlot

By Allan Dawson November 20, 2008

“It’s like money in the bank. Once these trees are free of competition they have more available light, more available water, more available nutrients. “ – Shawn Dias Dave Pogson’s grandfather helped feed his family during the Dirty Thirties selling oak fence posts he felled with an axe in his bush south of Rock Lake.

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Buildings tomorrow’s heirlooms — with yesterday’s wood

Province bulldozes Agro Woodlot Program

Breaking into grain inspection was tough, but the rewards were worth it

BioBaler makes its western Canadian debut

Create A Christmas Centrepiece

Money Grows On Trees

Canadian Pioneers

The Pogson brothers are harvesting trees from the same bush as their grandfather Third generation earns money from woodlot

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