New Alberta program is designed to help rural women tackle challenges of financing and time management
A woman’s idea for a rural-based agri-food business may be excellent but seeing that idea come to fruition can be fraught with obstacles. She may be juggling many demands on the farm, such as machinery operation, child care, livestock care and an off-farm job. She might lack confidence in her business skills or would benefit […] Read moreFarm Living
The pursuit of happiness
Q: My girlfriend told me that all she wants out of life is to be happy. When she said that, I thought that my part would be easy. All I had to do was figure out how to make her happy and she and I would be together for a long time. The only problem […] Read more
Flavourful pulse soup: it’s all in the seasoning
Hearty and flavourful pulse soups can warm up the menu during the cooler fall weather. They can vary greatly with the use of herbs or spices, even though most include carrots, onion, garlic, potatoes, celery and a dry pulse. The following is a selection of recipes that were submitted by readers in a recent TEAM […] Read more
Ranchers heralded for stewardship
FIR MOUNTAIN, Sask. — Miles Anderson would tell you he’s a rancher. But he’s also an historian, biologist, paleontologist and all the other things that come with spending his life on the family ranch in southwestern Saskatchewan. It’s clear there is no place he would rather be than on the land his great-grandfather and grandfather […] Read more
Hops a tasty addition to soups and stews
Hops are perennials grown as a landscape plant or for beer making but can also be added like a bay leaf to soups and stews. Both the young shoots that come out of the ground in spring and the cones that form on the plant in late summer are edible. These cones contain lupulin, which […] Read more
Services ranged from bread to babies
Longtime business owner in Pine River, Man., offers words of wisdom to others seeking success in life and careers
PINE RIVER, Man. — Anthony Semeniuk delivered six babies in his taxi, ran a general store and cut hair. His cab service often became an ambulance for locals in medical distress and sometimes women in labour couldn’t wait to get to the hospital. “The doctor told me what to expect and from then on, I […] Read more
A road trip through Manitoba’s Waterfall Alley
Massive walls of water thunder over a fault line. Cataracts and rapids twist through a narrow canyon. Most intriguing of all, a rapid-filled spring seems to gush mysteriously from a solid rock wall. The best part is that all of these spectacular natural features are easily accessible along a paved highway following the Grass River […] Read more
Canadian farm debt grows
Canadian agriculture remains in good financial shape despite a softening of all the key financial ratios in 2015, says Farm Credit Canada. Record farm income and solid asset appreciation have bolstered farm finances but 2015 was the first year in a long time that some of the key financial ratios weakened slightly. “Canadian agriculture continues […] Read more
Southern stories told on film
It began as a conversation over breakfast and ended in 10 short films encompassing the richness of rural communities across southern Alberta and Saskatchewan. David Christenson, executive producer of the National Film Board Northwest Centre, was exploring options to capture stories of the remote grassland area. Scott Parker offered his services, and in February 2015, […] Read more
Family egg business carries on, with upgraded technology
MORRIS, Man. — Just inside the entrance of the barn glows something that combines two of Harley Siemens’ passions: farming and electronics. It’s a computerized barn management master control system that oversees every element of the 23,000 bird egg operation. If anything goes wrong, alerts are fired out to Harley’s or his dad’s cellphones, wherever […] Read more
