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chokecherries on the tree
Farm Life

How chokecherries vary from chokeberries

Also, a reader poses many questions, and saline solution helps ease common cold symptoms

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Thank you to my Grainews friends and readers for coming by again. What would I do without you? We’ve all heard the expression: you’re like the salt of the earth — someone who stands by and pitches in to help through thick and thin. I think of plain old ordinary salt as something that helps […] Read more
a woman blowing her nose in winter
Columns, Farm Life, Weather

Snuff out the winter sniffles

Some easy movements can help relieve sinus congestion

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Winter is a season commonly associated with sniffles. Any way to get sinus relief is beneficial as we go through the coldest months. A common area of congestion is our sinus cavities, which take up space behind our cheekbones and brows. They are often a culprit behind headaches, facial pain, sniffly noses and sometimes even […] Read more
Echinacea plants are a beautiful addition to the garden. As herbalists will tell you, echinacea is also an excellent natural remedy during cold and flu season and has many other uses.
Columns, Farm Life

The benefits of echinacea

They’re pretty to look at, but echinacea plants also have been used for centuries to produce herbal remedies for a host of ills

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Hey there and hi, y’all good people! Ted here and welcome to the program. This is the final Grainews issue for 2023. Are you into the Christmas spirit yet? Just as Rudolph is the most famous reindeer of all, according to a seasonal song, echinacea is famous for its contribution to helping humans stay well. No […] Read more
Cookie dough on sheet ready for first baking.
Farm Life

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?
Columns, Farm Life

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
Farm Life

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

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