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Farm Life, FarmLife

What’s knee pain all about?

Usually the problem is actually coming from the hips or feet


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After seeing an older woman in the clinic a few weeks into her post-knee replacement rehabilitation, her daughter approached me saying she knew she was headed in the same direction as her mom as she was already having knee and hip pain. She wanted to know if there was anything she could do to prevent […] Read more
Horses and some of the cattle gather around the feed trough.
Cattleman’s Corner, Crops, Farm Life

Little improvement in early October weather

The Eppich News: Moving some cattle, and trying not to share too much barley with the geese

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There was no combining the end of September. Instead we worked on fencing projects and started hauling some of our bales home. Sept. 28: We brought all of our Landis ditch bales home. It’s nice to have them at home instead of in a snow-filled ditch 20 miles away. Sept. 29: We skinned two of […] Read more
Cooking the foods of our ancestors keeps heritage alive
Columns, Farm Life, FarmLife

Cooking the foods of our ancestors keeps heritage alive

First We Eat: And what better way than with a pot of homemade soup?

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One of the great truisms about food is that by cooking the foods of our forebears, we maintain or re-establish a link with our heritage. My mother’s antecedents were off-colony Hutterites who arrived in Saskatchewan at the turn of the previous century from a colony in South Dakota. Earlier, my great-greats and their babes had […] Read more
Joseph enjoys a cob of corn from the garden at lunch during harvest.
Cattleman’s Corner, Crops, Farm Life

Harvest slowed by rain and snow

The Eppich News: Time needed to deal with horse injuries and fencing

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We found ourselves madly swathing and combining at the end of August. The beginning of September brought a few light showers but we were able to keep trudging onward. We never got started very early thanks to the light showers and the heavy dew, but we were still able to put in some good days. […] Read more
Observations seem to support the lore that rain will follow a hoarfrost.
Cattleman’s Corner, Farm Life

Following some old-time weather predictors

Does a foggy fall really forecast heavy snows ahead?

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Over the last few years we have started to pay a lot more attention to weather lore. In the old days these nuggets of wisdom were all the farmers had to prepare for Prairie winters. Last winter we started recording little things on the calendar to test how dependable they were and we’re surprised at […] Read more
There may be a sense of relief that a person who was draining energy and creating conflict and drama on the farm is no longer working there.
Farm Life, FarmLife

Fired from the farm

How do you tell a son or daughter that they are not a good fit for the farm?

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As a farm family coach I hear the struggles of farmers who are used to being able to quickly repair or fix problems that arise daily. When these hard-working, well-intentioned folks have a farming adult child who is not a good fit for the farm, great stress lingers far too long. If you try to […] Read more
A house concert in the Ringdal living room.
Farm Life, FarmLife

Filling the house with story and song

House concerts are a great way to enjoy live music in the home with friends and neighbours

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I have memories of my dad’s record collection and the big cabinet stereo in the front room. I was forced into piano lessons from elementary into high school and we had the school-issued recorders and a guitar in the house. In recent years live music in the home has taken on new meaning for me. […] Read more
A whitetail doe with her fawn approach a protective fence seeking an opportunity to nibble at something.
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One man’s experience with destructive deer

Ted has a recipe to help discourage them from damaging trees and shrubs

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As I write this, September’s been a really wet one so far here in my part of Manitoba and elsewhere too, according to news reports. Seems moisture began falling not many days after I wrote about “The Rain Dance” in a local publication. Now a few folks have said — maybe it’s time to write […] Read more
A young father with his little son walking in the wheat field at sunset in a warm summer day
Farm Life, FarmLife

Don’t be a fleeing heir or end up in shirt sleeves

Study shows large percentage of families will lose their wealth in succeeding generations

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Last month we talked about the great wealth transfer tension; there’s more. Financial planner Anthony Williams describes a study by Investment News suggesting 66 per cent of children will ultimately fire their parents’ financial adviser once they receive their inheritance. These folks are called fleeing heirs. I would like to know the statistic for farm families, as […] Read more
vegetables, fresh, raw, tomatoes, garlic, red, pepper, cucumbers on the table on a plate and cutting Board, jars of pickles, jars of pickles and tomatoes on a table, food
Farm Life, FarmLife

Why not pickle some of those garden veggies?

First We Eat: Try this recipe to pickle colourful jars of crisp mixed vegetables

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Dave is mourning the passing of the lake that almost surrounded our house for seven years. It covered 15 acres at its peak, in fact a large slough, but “lake” dignified what was a difficult situation. And now he mourns its loss. Our lake arrived suddenly and unannounced in April 2011 with the flood that […] Read more

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