Diane Rogers

Activism is a road that people walk wearily sometimes, says farm woman and academic Nettie Wiebe. “To put yourself out there and in the public domain is, for any women, not easy.” And it’s a little tougher for farm women to become active, she said, because of their triple workload of on- and off-farm work […] Read more

Last week Fred Bradshaw finished swathing the wheat on his quarter section of land near Central Butte, Sask. “It’s a very good crop Ð 25 to 30 bushels an acre,” said Bradshaw. “This was a good year.” And he should know. Bradshaw has been farming since age 13 and now, 77 years later, he is […] Read more

A rural counselling program for children who witness domestic violence would not exist without money from gamblers. The head of the Southwest Safe Shelter in Swift Current, Sask., said the $31,940 grant it got from the province’s Associated Entities Fund enabled the Intervention Advocacy Program to continue. “We couldn’t do it,” said Vera Wolfe of […] Read more

The manager of a Regina counseling agency wants to help farmers but can’t seem to get on the list. Chuck Lowery, manager of Anchorage Counseling and Rehabilitation Services Inc., said with the present farm income crisis and high numbers of calls to Saskatchewan’s Farm Stress Line, his agency would like to assist. But its proposal […] Read more

ABBEY, Sask. – Henry Buck wanted to be a cowboy. His grandparents raised him in the orchards of Minnesota in the 1870s but he went west looking for adventure and found work and a wife on a Nebraska ranch. A trip into Canada in 1894-95 showed him an area good for raising livestock and kids. […] Read more

The Women of Unifarm willdecide which farm safety projects will be funded next year in Alberta under the Canadian Agricultural Safety Program. The farm women’s group, guided by the Canadian Coalition for Agricultural Safety and Rural Health, has been given the decision-making authority for $88,000 for the first of four years of the program. Alberta […] Read more

A farm wife is worth $19,000 a year, says a New Brunswick judge. Justice Paulette Garnett of Court of Queen’s Bench was ruling on an insurance case to determine the value of work done in and out of the home by a farm woman killed in a vehicle accident six years ago. The judge awarded […] Read more

When a Manitoba farmer pleaded guilty three years ago to endangering his five-year-old son who was driving a truck on a public road, many parents gasped. Some were shocked that a young child would be given such a task. Others realized they should stop putting their own young farmers into such situations. Parents who have […] Read more

Women cannot legally use midwives in Saskatchewan, even though the province has been working on the issue for five years. And even if birthing assistants were legal, there is only one in the province ready with her education and experience to pass the credentials process. “We’re not really far ahead when we’re talking midwives,” says […] Read more

ASSINIBOIA, Sask. – For home gardeners, the refrigerator is a best friend for preserving herbs. Gardeners can freeze the plants or let them dry on top of the fridge where the air is always warm and circulating, said herb grower Joan Barnsley. The owner of Rock Haven Industries in Assiniboia, Sask., told members of the […] Read more