A favourite recipe to make ahead and freeze for family gatherings is barbecue beef on a bun. It can be easily increased to feed a larger group and can be served with crusty buns, pickles and salads. Add mashed potatoes for a full meal and pour the sauce over them.I have adapted the recipe from […] Read more
Farm Living
Make-ahead dishes perfect for family events
Stakes are high for Sask. pulse exporters
LLOYDMINSTER – Ben Nelson marveled over the volume and variety of pulses in the Middle Eastern diet during a recent visit to the trading district in Dubai.“In stores here, it would be hard to find 100 kilograms; over there they’d have 80 tonnes sitting in the grocery store,” said Nelson, who operates Great Western Grain […] Read more
Students shine at science fair with grain bin lid
MIDALE, Sask. – A science fair project by two Grade 12 students from Midale, Sask., has turned into an award winning invention that farmers could really use.Erick Vandenhurk and Jarika Penny were down to the deadline to choose a project when they settled on designing and building a better grain bin lid.Existing lids blow open […] Read more
Programs needed in money management
As the Canadian 4-H movement struggles to recruit new members and make its 97-year-old principles and programs relevant to the 21st century, Matthew Tweedy has a suggestion.The 20-year-old business student at the University of Prince Edward Island said 4-H could begin teaching its members the basics of business, money management and business plans.“We think that […] Read more
Manitoba Pork spotlights country in city
For weeks, George Matheson, a hog producer near Stonewall, Man., has heard the same comment from friends and neighbours – I saw you yesterday in Winnipeg.Matheson got used to comments about his face on billboards and buses in the province’s capital as part of a Manitoba Pork Council ad campaign.In early April, the council launched […] Read more
Women’s group relevant at 100
MORRIS, Man. – After 100 years, the Manitoba Women’s Institute isn’t getting tired but it’s definitely getting stretched.“We’re either going to have to get more people to move back to the rural or we’re just going to have to get louder and louder to be heard,” said new MWI president Justina Hop about challenges in […] Read more
Changing lives in Afghanistan
MORRIS, Man. – Lurching around Afghanistan in a truck driven by a man named Abdullah isn’t typical behaviour for an 80-something Canadian woman.But Flora MacDonald has never been a typical woman.And tales of her work in the war-ravaged land meshed neatly with the Manitoba Women’s Institute’s 100th anniversary celebrations last month.Challenges for women and girls […] Read more
Cookies are a taste tempting treat
Horseback riding safety Helmets can prevent serious injury. A friend of mine was bucked from his horse and suffered a serious head injury. The foam in his riding helmet where his head hit is now about one-half of the original depth.The Saskatchewan Horse Federation says athletes involved in horse riding are more likely to suffer head […] Read more
Bruised but not beaten, rancher still saddles up
TULLIBY LAKE, Alta. – At 83, Don Sidener still rides his horse every three hours during calving time to check on his herd.With a flashlight in hand at night and his horse, Buster, beneath a well-worn saddle, Sidener cuts out cows ready to calve and takes them to the barn for the big event.”That’s where […] Read more
Adolescent depression often hidden under guise of defiance
Q: My husband and I are worried about our 14-year-old niece. Ever since her father died a few years ago, she and my husband have had special times together. He is like a surrogate father to her. Lately, my niece has been reluctant to visit. We know that her school marks are down and she […] Read more
