Diane Rogers

JACKFISH LODGE, Sask. – It was a Friday and Saskatchewan’s home economics teachers had cut classes to head to their annual convention. Two-thirds of the 150 home ec teachers in the province showed up to hear the latest in food, sewing and life skills courses at a resort in the Battlefords Provincial Park Sept. 22-24. […] Read more

Canada needs to develop the scientific proof to capitalize on a $180 billion US market for the world’s nutrition industry, consultant Ian Newton argued during the annual meeting of Ag-West Bio Inc. in Saskatoon on Sept. 7. He said a study done for Agriculture Canada determined which food additives would present the best chance for […] Read more

Joyce Goodhand is reel happy. For the fourth year in a row she is bringing a film series to Swift Current, Sask., to help local people have fun and reward them for supporting the Southwest Crisis Services Inc. Goodhand, executive director of the crisis service, said the film series is an entertaining way to raise […] Read more

CUPAR, Sask. – Next year Bill and Joan Turner’s farm could receive a century designation, if they can track down the original deed to the land. “This was my grandfather’s farm. He bought it in October 1905 and farmed it in ’06,” said Bill. The Turners still live in the big house that his grandfather […] Read more

CUPAR, Sask. – For a greenhorn at greenhouses, Harold Keyser has been having success. While a third of his English cucumber crop died this spring, his hand built greenhouse, residing in the back of an ice cream parlour, is making sales. It is his first year of greenhouse operation, said Keyser, 76, a farmer who […] Read more

The BSE crisis in Canada was a result of a conspiracy by the United States, according to a novel written by an Edmonton man. While Roger Adkin doesn’t really believe the Americans corrupted a Canadian official to inject prions into the brain of a Canadian cow, causing BSE, he thinks it makes a gripping story. […] Read more

CRAIK, Sask. – Urban youth met farmers in a unique setting of a field of hemp Aug. 20 on the highway midway between Regina and Saskatoon. With Field 05, organizers had planned a day “to put culture back in agriculture,” through hemp marketing workshops, environmental displays, music and food. The field of industrial hemp was […] Read more

A mental health expert says rural people are more resilient than they think. “People bring more strength to their lives than not,” Nikki Gerrard told a national conference at the University of Saskatchewan Aug. 16. Gerrard, a psychologist with the Saskatoon Health Region who has worked in the farm stress field for 15 years, said […] Read more

There are now more golf courses than dairy farms in Halton County, home to the president of the Canadian 4-H Council. Bertram Stewart says where cattle used to graze north of Toronto, people now play. As the nature of rural life changes, whether in Stewart’s Ontario or in the West, so must the 92-year-old 4-H […] Read more

Ex-farmer Marvin Rempel remembers 1999 when his back was so sore he couldn’t walk. The Swift Current, Sask., acreage dweller fell that summer and broke his back. An eight hour surgery followed a couple of months later. “My bones were weak, I guess.” The diagnosis was cancer, multiple myeloma. His doctors suggested he go for […] Read more