Heading toward year-end, people unknowingly tense up against the cold and busyness, causing neck pain that can often be treated with appropriate support and gentle mobility, athletic therapist Kathlyn Hossack says.
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Gentle treatments for pain in the neck
Heading toward year-end, people unknowingly tense up against the cold and busyness, causing neck pain that can often be treated…
In times of mandatory joy, try to find contentment
If we’re not feeling the joy at a time of year that seems to insist on over-the-top moments of happiness,…
Putting down roots, part 2: Potatoes
Saskatchewan author and chef dee Hobsbawn-Smith offers a retrospective on the potato’s cultural journey from the Americas to Europe and…
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Run the farm with its people in mind
Learning the human resources side of management and leadership is particularly helpful if your farm business has employees or a…
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What’s the best form of exercise?
For farmers at any season of life, it’s more important to find ways of exercising that feel practical and attainable,…
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Putting down roots, part 1: Beets
Densely textured, richly coloured and earthy even in their seed form, beets are reminiscent of dirt for Saskatchewan writer dee…
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Seven ways to streamline your farm transition
Lyle Wiens, who coaches farm families and advises on grain marketing, sees parallels between marketing and farm transition planning —…
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The issue with scar tissue
Without a healthy amount of movement, friction and influence during the healing process, scar tissue may later disrupt how the…
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Great recipes rely on timely fall resource management
dee Hobsbawn-Smith recounts an early-September rush to get frost-sensitive Prairie produce out of the garden, into the kitchen and processed…
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Gentle treatments for pain in the neck
Fit to Farm: Built-up tensions come compliments of the season
In times of mandatory joy, try to find contentment
Farm Family Coach: We can’t force it to be the most wonderful time of the year for everyone
If we’re not feeling the joy at a time of year that seems to insist on over-the-top moments of happiness, we can allow ourselves to just try for fulfilled or content, farm family coach Kalynn Spain suggests.
Putting down roots, part 2: Potatoes
First We Eat: It didn’t take long for the versatile potato to become a staple in Europe, especially in Ireland
Saskatchewan author and chef dee Hobsbawn-Smith offers a retrospective on the potato’s cultural journey from the Americas to Europe and back, and a recipe for butter-basted baby potatoes with rosemary.
Run the farm with its people in mind
Farm Family Coach: Developing skills in HR management is especially valuable on farms with employees or a multi-generational workforce
Learning the human resources side of management and leadership is particularly helpful if your farm business has employees or a multi-generational workforce, farm family coach Lydia Carpenter writes.
What’s the best form of exercise?
Fit to Farm: We benefit from some form of resistance training at all levels of our biology, through our daily chores or otherwise
For farmers at any season of life, it’s more important to find ways of exercising that feel practical and attainable, rather than force yourself through some form of exercise that simply doesn’t fit or feel good, athletic therapist Kathlyn Hossack writes.
Putting down roots, part 1: Beets
First We Eat: Taking us back to lands left behind, beets today are the closest we get to eating a mouthful of minerals
Densely textured, richly coloured and earthy even in their seed form, beets are reminiscent of dirt for Saskatchewan writer dee Hobsbawn-Smith.
Seven ways to streamline your farm transition
Farm Family Coach: It’s not hard to find parallels between this process and your day-to-day business
Lyle Wiens, who coaches farm families and advises on grain marketing, sees parallels between marketing and farm transition planning — two decision-making areas in which farmers can feel overwhelmed.
The issue with scar tissue
Fit to Farm: Left to form unattended, a scar may inhibit your range of motion
Without a healthy amount of movement, friction and influence during the healing process, scar tissue may later disrupt how the body moves around it, so maintenance is needed as soon as an incision or wound heals over, Kathlyn Hossack writes.
Great recipes rely on timely fall resource management
First We Eat: Your garden’s yield may need storage all at once if autumn arrives on short notice
dee Hobsbawn-Smith recounts an early-September rush to get frost-sensitive Prairie produce out of the garden, into the kitchen and processed for storage.
Cherries, part 2: Strudel
First We Eat: Prairie gardeners have until about the end of October to get sour cherry plants into the ground
Sour cherry shrubs, with proper care, can thrive in the challenging climate of Canada’s Prairies and produce fruit for delicacies such as strudel, as shown in the recipe here.
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