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Cookie dough on sheet ready for first baking.
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Metaphors in baking

First We Eat: A geologic way to think of cakes and cookies

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I drove into the southern heartland of Saskatchewan last week, threading through the Qu’Appelle Valley, rolling down undulating slopes past hoodoos to the valley floor, across the bridge, then back up again to the upper deck of land that faces south. The escarpment in the south end of the province remains invisible to anyone traversing […] Read more
Why can’t farm moms ask for what they need?
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Why can’t farm moms ask for what they need?

It could be due to scarcity mindsets, generational neglect of needs or disrespect of in-laws

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December can be an emotionally strained month with high expectations for seasonal celebrations and gifts. Last year, due to a myriad of circumstances and miscommunication, my Christmas stocking was skinny, and truthfully, I was disappointed and tempted to feel sorry for myself. When you consider the terrible wars in the Middle East and Ukraine though, […] Read more
Where We Ate by Gabby Payton profiles 150 restaurants.
Farm Life

New Canadiana Cookbooks: Where We Ate

First We Eat: A look at Canadian dining over the decades, through the lens of our country’s iconic eateries

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As I read Where We Ate by Gabby Peyton, I fell down a rabbit hole of memory. The book, a history of Canadian dining from pre-Confederation to COVID, profiles 150 restaurants by decades. Turns out I have eaten in 26 of them. “Almost all our restaurant food is immigrant food,” Peyton writes. “We’d be remiss […] Read more
Any kind of dance gets the whole body moving and engages the senses, and it can also be done alone, with a partner or in a group. It truly is a remedy that works on multiple levels for multiple reasons.
Farm Life

An ancient remedy for better health

Fit to Farm: Dancing is fun, but it can also enhance your mental and physical well-being

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The oldest remedy in the world? It’s amazing think of how much we humans have evolved to handle. Our biology never ceases to come up with ways to move us forward. Many of the life-threatening diseases we face today are relatively new to human history. Chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease and obesity are considered […] Read more
Doug Kretchmer and his parrot companion, Billy the Kid.
Farm Life

A bird story

Singing Gardener: Plus fond recollections of bygone days, and the importance of marking Remembrance Day

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A bird that’s a plant and a bird with feathers are as different from each other as daylight is from darkness. In my last Grainews instalment, I wrote about a tropical plant commonly called Bird of Paradise. Today, another kind of bird story takes centre stage, which you can read about further along. There’s a […] Read more
Managing your own needs and the needs of your spouse is the dance of work/life balance.
Farm Life

Froese: Farmers need to find time for family

There are lots of creative solutions, if you’re willing to put your mind to it

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Back in 1987, before some of you reading this were born, I was asked to write about balancing work and family. It’s now 2023, and the same questions come from my audiences around key challenges like how to achieve work/life balance or how to get more family time on the farm. The dance between work […] Read more
Bird of Paradise
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How to grow beautiful bird of paradise flowers

Singing Gardener: Plus some thoughts on grape juice and its plentiful health benefits

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How are you doing, everybody? We owe it to ourselves to feel good and have as many of these good days as possible, even though we know some days can be anything but good. When someone says to me, “Have a good day,” I often respond with, “Those are the only kind of days I […] Read more
Local cured meats are a popular taste treat at Saskatchewan book launches.
Farm Life

New Canadiana Cookbooks: The Miracle of Salt

First We Eat: Using an age-old technique to preserve, ferment and transform your food

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One way to gauge the importance of something in culture is to look at the word’s use in everyday language. When it comes to salt, we have many linguistic idioms and turns of phrase. Salt of the earth. Salty old dog. Salty language. Rubbing salt in a wound. Taking things with a grain of salt. […] Read more
It’s important to have family business meetings with all your blended family members, including farm heirs and non-farm heirs. This way, expectations can be managed and your direction and intentions for transferring management and ownership are clear.
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Making blended farm families work

It can be a difficult transition, but here are some tools that can help

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When you get married, you blend two different styles of family dynamics, and it takes a while to adjust. According to the 2011 Canadian Census, 12 per cent of Canadian families involve step-parenting. You can imagine the adjustments needed when these stepparents run farms. In our coaching practice, we help blended ag families navigate this […] Read more
Dry roasting whole spices in a cast iron pan.
Farm Life

New Canadiana Cookbooks: Prairie

Seasonal, farm-fresh recipes celebrate Prairie traditions

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A flurry of recent books dishes up Prairie eats, among them tawâw: Progressive Indigenous Cuisine by Shane Chartrand and Jennifer Cockrall-King; Only in Saskatchewan: Recipes and Stories from the Province’s Best-Loved Eateries by Naomi Hansen; Eat Alberta First: A Year of Local Recipes from Where the Prairies Meet the Mountains by Karen Anderson; and Vegetables: […] Read more

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