Noodle bowls and soups are traditional comfort foods in Asian cuisines. They are light and filling and can be creatively adapted for any diet and taste. These recipes are excellent for those seeking to eat fewer carbohydrates, especially breads, pasta, sweets and starchy vegetables, and more fresh vegetables and proteins, for weight loss or a […] Read more
Farm Living
Sask. farm diversifies into clothing business
On the Farm: Aaron Spence’s Dirt Road Collective feeds her creative side while allowing her to help her husband at home
Aaron Spence has created a home business that encapsulates four of her passions — farming, Saskatchewan, hockey and lake life. Her Dirt Road Collective online apparel and accessories company features eye-catching artwork, symbols, statements and phrases covering those four themes. She likes the simplicity of her work, like a T-shirt with the handwritten initials SK […] Read more
Significance of a smile is not always fully appreciated
Q: A few years ago my principal asked me if I would consider being the homeroom teacher for a Grade 7 class. Grade 7 is in the midst of what are often called “middle years” and is considered by many teachers to be the most challenging of all grades to be taught. I accepted the […] Read more
This is a great year to discover joys of winter camping
Want to take an exotic winter holiday while still observing pandemic protocols and travel advisories? Winter camping fits the bill. It’s a completely different experience from camping at other times of the year, with a lot of advantages. For starters, you don’t need ice for your cooler. Many parks are almost deserted, making social distancing […] Read more
Pandemic increases interest in goats
Nigerian Dwarf goat breeders see increased demand for breeding stock, milking goats and self-sufficiency information
SPRUCE VIEW, Alta. — The COVID-19 pandemic has created awareness and concern over food security and the capacity to access other essential products and services. There has been surges in demand, hoarding, shortages, limitations, and restrictions placed on food and other necessities of life. The pandemic has created tremendous interest in developing the ability to […] Read more
Baking a cake can be therapeutic, relaxing — and tasty
Cakes are comfort food at its sweetest. They have the power to transport us to past birthdays, weddings, engagements, babies and vacations with just one bite. The best cakes can be whipped up in a flash and others are a labour of love. Making a cake has the added benefit of being therapeutic and relaxing. […] Read more
Success in the show ring seen as win for breed
On the Farm: Sask. couple started their Gelbvieh ranch only four years ago but have already made a name for themselves
In the four years since Twin View Livestock started appearing on purebred show lists, the Gelbvieh operation has established itself firmly in the championship category. Joe Barnett and Aaron Birch earned national titles, winning both the female and bull championships at Canadian Western Agribition in Regina in 2019, and world titles after the most recent […] Read more
Alberta farmer turns ag plastic into fence posts
It took 2 1/2 years to build a recycling machine out of old oilfield pipe, an anhydrous ammonia tank, a straw chopper and parts of a swather
VERMILION, Alta. — It took farmer, inventor and recycler Danny Farkash about 2 1/2 years to figure out how to build a machine that turns used agricultural plastic into fence posts. Using old oilfield pipe, an anhydrous ammonia tank, a straw chopper, parts of a swather and other bits and pieces, Farkash built a machine […] Read more
Radio widened Manitoba farm boy’s horizons
By the time they tired of this new obsession, the brothers knew everything there was to know about the big city of Chicago
During winter evenings in January of 1976, a new world revealed itself to four Manitoba farm brothers. After we heard the radio waves from faraway, we began to experience the bigger world out there — Chicago. My older brother David had become fascinated with radio and the news it could bring to us. We were […] Read moreDifficult to find right way to make divorce plans known
Q: After years of anguish, bitterness and disappointment, I think that I can say that I have finally come to terms with my divorce. It was not the divorce, per se, that was the problem. I think that both of us knew that our marriage had run its course, that once the honeymoon phase of […] Read more
