Company wins award
Manitoba Harvest Hemp Foods and Oils is the 2006 recipient of the
socially responsible business award.
The Winnipeg-based business has helped educate consumers about nutritious hemp food and has led the way for hemp to become one of the hottest trends in the natural products marketplace.
The company was founded in 1998 by entrepreneur Martin Moravcik and friends Mike Fata and Alex Chwaiewsky.
The socially responsible business award is given each year in recognition of a company’s role in promoting sustainable organic hemp agriculture in North America.
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The award winner is selected by an independent panel of judges involved in the hemp industry.
Manitoba Harvest contracts hemp seed production on 6,000 acres with 25 farmers who are shareholders in the company.
Their organic, non-genetically modified seed is processed into various products including a non-dairy beverage called Hemp Bliss, hemp seed oil, hemp seed nut, hemp seed nut butter and hemp protein powder at the company’s kosher and U.S. organic certified processing plant.
Saving wetlands
Bernard Curnow of Killarney, Man., has donated 240 acres of his property to the Manitoba Habitat Heritage Corp. for habitat conservation.
Curnow’s property includes cultivated land, wetlands, woodland, hayland and the banks of the Long River.
“A great diversity of wildlife can be found here, including deer, fox, ducks, geese, grouse and many songbirds,” said Al Bourrier, a field representative for the habitat corporation.
Curnow will own the land for the rest of his life. He will make decisions about its use and retain income
derived from it. The corporation will assume full ownership upon his death.
Born in England in 1923, Curnow came to Canada in1949 with five pounds in his pocket. He settled in Manitoba, farming grain and cattle for almost 30 years in the Killarney area.
In 1992 he moved into Willow Lodge in Killarney, where he still resides.
