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Goodbye from Amy Jo Ehman
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Goodbye from Amy Jo Ehman

Prairie Palate: A fond farewell as she focuses on other projects

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As we say hello to a new year, it’s time for me to say goodbye to all my friends and fans at Grainews. This is my last column. Writing a food column is a special joy. There aren’t many things that I’m any good at in this world but writing and cooking. I heart them […] Read more
Dan Reid with some of his paintings.
Farm Life, FarmLife

Artist captures memories of farm life

Growing up on a Saskatchewan farm produced many fond recollections

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Growing up on a farm provided artist Dan Reid with a bank of pleasant, nostalgic memories that he can now immortalize on canvas for present and future generations to appreciate. Reid’s parents owned a mixed farm near Crystal Springs, northeast of Wakaw, Saskatchewan. Some of his fondest recollections as a youngster are travelling to school […] Read more
This striking mass of pink hibiscus-like lavatera flowers, also known as rose mallow are grown from seeds that Joan Ziegler got from her dad, but she doesn’t know the variety name. (Ted thinks they could be “Loveliness” or “Silver Cup.”) Joan also mentioned there are white ones tucked in among the pink lavatera. She tried starting them inside but decided lavatera do not transplant well and says they do much better when seeded outside directly into the soil. She always saves some seeds and also lets them volunteer.
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Readers ask for more tomato info

Singing Gardener: Plus, farming couple shares photos of their flowers

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All for the love of tomatoes opens the page in this my first Grainews column for 2018. I share an email from Alberta and a phone conversation with a farmer’s wife out of Unity, Sask. Am still out and about promoting the connection between five or more weekly servings of no-sugar-added homemade tomato juice, tomato soup, stewed […] Read more
Kids at play can remind us to appreciate the simpler things.
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Laughing in spite of it all

Five farm women share how they remain positive even in dire circumstances

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When snow sets in on October 1, and half a bumper crop lies in the field; when the news is full of refugees and the days seem long and grey — it’s easy to succumb to the blues. Five farm women from Africa, Switzerland and Canada tell us how they laugh despite dire circumstances and […] Read more
Apart from amaryllis or coloured bracts of a poinsettia, few other plants can warm the heart like an enchantingly beautiful cactus in full bloom during Christmas and New Year festivities. Characteristically, a true Christmas cactus (Schlumbergera x buckleyi) has side pendant branches with segments that are decidedly arching.
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Ted’s final column of 2017

Singing Gardener: Plus, a request from a psychologist and kids' letters to Santa

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So what does yours truly, Ted, have to say in this my final Grainews column to close out the year 2017? A variety of subject material includes an email from a Toronto psychologist searching for information about her late grandfather. Hopefully someone out there in Grainews land may be able to assist her. Also, excerpts […] Read more
Kutya
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Just in time for Christmas — kutya

Prairie Palate: This meatless dish of Ukrainian heritage is the first 
of 12 served on Christmas Eve

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What sets Manitoba’s cuisine apart from the rest of Canada? I asked that question of Christine Hanlon, author of the new cookbook Out of Old Manitoba Kitchens, which arrived on store shelves in September. It’s chock full of old recipes that characterize the early cuisine of the postage stamp province. Some of the recipes are […] Read more
Discussions must be had so everyone is clear on the plan for transition of labour, management and ownership of the farm.
Farm Life, FarmLife

How do we tell our non-farming children they are not getting a raw deal?

Start by asking what fairness looks like as farm assets are transitioned


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Our 33-year-old daughter was lamenting the fact that there is no longer a Sears Christmas Wish book. Decades ago she delighted in flipping pages of the coloured catalogue seeking out requests for her wish list, hoping that the cherished gifts would be under our Christmas tree. I remember the not-so-happy Christmas when some of the […] Read more
Bullet Soup
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Try this Métis recipe for Bullet Soup

Prairie Palate: The name has nothing to do with ammunition 
and everything to do with little meatballs

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I love my book club. We’ve been together for 24 years. Some of us have been there from the beginning and others have come and gone over time. Our newest member joined in September. I use the words “joined” and “member” loosely as there is no membership criteria beyond a love of good conversation over […] Read more
Mike and Amanda and their children Silas and Laurel hope to move to his parents’ acreage soon.
Farm Life, FarmLife

Natural products business flourishing

Goal was to create quality products containing no harmful chemicals

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When Mike Zimmer launched his line of natural body care products in 2010, he had already spent several years researching, testing, and fine tuning his salves, soaps, and deodorants. His goal was to create quality products that actually worked, and did not contain harmful chemicals that might jeopardize people’s health or wreak havoc with the […] Read more
I want to take steps now to make sure my husband stays healthy — both physically and mentally.

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I worry about my farmer’s stress

Nurse Loves Farmer: Measures need to be taken to preserve health and decrease stress levels on the farm

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In the fall of 2006 when I was still dating my farmer, I’ll never forget the day we were lounging in his basement bedroom listening to music in the house he rented from in Edmonton. This house was a mere three-block stroll to the University of Alberta, where he was finishing up his crop sciences […] Read more

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