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When Sarah Schultz married her farmer she left her familiar city life for life on a grain farm.
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My struggles as a farmwife

I wouldn’t change my life for anything but I didn’t truly know what I was getting into

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In marriage we leave our parents and become one with our spouse. As women, we more often than not take their last names and join their families — especially so in the farming communities. In my case, I left behind a life in the city of Edmonton that I really loved, a job in the […] Read more
Boys on hay bale
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Is the farm a healthier place to grow up on?

Prairie Palate: Get Well Soon Meat Loaf

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As we head into the winter cold season, I am feeling quite smug. I rarely get colds. I have no allergies and a stomach as impervious as a cast iron pan. I attribute the healthy state of my immune system to growing up on a farm. Mucking about in the garden, eating bugs and dirt, […] Read more
Choose a good cut of beef such as tenderloin or flat iron steak (see recipe further down).
Farm Life, FarmLife

Well done, medium, rare or… raw?

Prairie Palate: Steak Carpaccio

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My friend Joanne said she would not eat raw lamb, and that was fine with me. So while everyone else at the table made adventurous forays to try the lamb, she watched bemused. When they liked it, she looked puzzled. And when the bowl was almost empty, she finally picked up a piece of pita […] Read more
Alison Anderson, the director of Succession Matching.
Farm Life, FarmLife

How to find a successor for your farm

If you don’t have anyone interested in taking over the farm 
Succession Matching may be able to help

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It often happens at my succession communication seminars that a weary farmer approaches me with a problem. “Elaine, we don’t have a successor for our farm.” The look of worry and wear on their face makes me want to just sit and listen to their story. When I spoke in Biggar, Saskatchewan a few years […] Read more
Breakfast is the best!
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Breakfast is the best!

Prairie Palate: A morning muesli recipe

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Breakfast is my favourite meal of the day. This may come as a surprise, given my penchant for experimenting in the kitchen. I love a good, multi-course, try-something-new, dirty-all-the-dishes dinner now and then, but the satisfaction of such a herculean effort is elevated by the simple unworried recovery of breakfast. Just one dirty bowl at […] Read more
Friends Luke (l to r), Alvin, Gerry and Doug bought a bus to tour the country and stopped by the Froese farm to share a day of harvest.
Farm Life, FarmLife

Reflections on turning 60

I don’t see being in my 60s as retirement but as a reinvention of roles

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I hope that your family has taken time to celebrate Thanksgiving, as I know some farmers don’t cook a turkey until the last crop is in the bin. The words to my favourite song of gratitude are: “Give thanks with a grateful heart, give thanks to the Holy One, give thanks because He’s given Jesus […] Read more
Dallas Spencer, trail boss for the ride in August.
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Roche Percee Trail Ride

Annual ride highlights diverse southeastern Saskatchewan landscape

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The horses are rustling beneath a navy-blue sky as a meteor shower lights up the night. Whinnies echo across the park grounds as campfires are extinguished and the 75 campers retire to their tents and trailers. When the sun rises, so do the cowboys and cowgirls who are up early to feed, water and groom […] Read more
Communicate better with your farm lawyer
Farm Life, FarmLife

Communicate better with your farm lawyer

Lawyers have lots of experience and wisdom but they can’t read minds

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Lawyers are the brunt of many jokes, but if you want to have a great succession outcome you better have a great communication plan with your farm’s lawyer! Ontario lawyer Sarah Jacob shared her experiences at a CAFA (Canadian Association of Farm Advisors) update. Would you like to save time and money in front of your […] Read more
flapper pie
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Grandma’s prize-winning flapper pie

Prairie Palate: Flapper Pie recipe

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[Updated May 9, 2017] I’ve been going through a box of my grandma’s souvenirs and so I can tell you that, in 1957, she won first prize for her flapper pie at the Saskatoon fair. She also won red ribbons for her saskatoon pie, cherry pie with lattice crust, toffee, chocolate cake (layer), four fruit […] Read more
Henry (l) and Rich Braul stand in a leafcutter bee shelter.
Crops, Farm Life

Still going strong after 50 years

Leafcutter bee pioneers ‘still learning’ after all that time

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When Henry Braul and his brother John decided to take a risk and invest in leafcutter bees to pollinate their alfalfa seed fields near Rosemary, Alta., “we were the only ones,” he says. “Everyone was watching us and smiling behind our backs.” Braul bought his first batch of larvae in three two-gallon pails for $700 […] Read more

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