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Doug Kretchmer and his parrot companion, Billy the Kid.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Why power of attorney is important

For older farmers, it can provide financial protection and peace of mind as they age

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Recently a friend was teary as she told me about a sudden change in her mom’s health. When I asked if she had power of attorney for her mother, her answer was a resounding “no way.” Her mom was procrastinating on seeing a lawyer to draw up necessary documents to protect her future. Are you […] Read more
Purple sage is a woody shrub with beautiful, aromatic flowers and is easy to grow.
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Medicinal merits of sage

Popular herb used for centuries to help ease cold and flu symptoms

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Howdy, good people and how-do y’all. Welcome again to Grainews country. For some gardeners and farmers, the harvest season is done. For others, there’s very little or no harvest left to be done. How have things been where you are? Let me know, should you care to share. I often sing about weather and climate […] Read more
Knee and joint pain
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Nourish your joints through movement

There’s truth to the adage “use it or lose it”

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Regardless of age, health history or lifestyle, maintaining healthy joints can be a deciding factor in long-term quality of life and well-being. Normal levels of joint degeneration occur as people age. Certain diseases or genetic conditions can also affect the quality of joint health. That said, disease and age are not necessarily reasons for limited […] Read more
Potatoes harvested from container-grown Melody potato plants from EarthApples. Melody has smooth skin, dry flesh and can be boiled and mashed. It also has high yield potential and overall good resistance to late blight on plants and common scab and bruising on tubers.
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The best times to go fishing

Singing Gardener: Plus a few things you may not know about potatoes and melons

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My grandma on my mother’s side loved to go berry picking. She was a berry picker through and through, seeking out wild saskatoon and chokecherry bushes. Together, we often picked raspberries from canes at her home garden patch too. If there was anything she taught me I was qualified to do, it was picking raspberries. […] Read more

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