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For the love of tomatoes

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What’s the world’s earliest tomato? It’s Latah! Name a good storage tomato? Try Mystery Keeper! Greg Wingate of Mapple Farm in Weldon, New Brunswick has both. Latah is a distinctive tomato that has one great edge. It grows and produces ripe fruit in short-season areas where other so-called early tomatoes failed. Mystery Keeper is an […] Read more
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A farm widow’s business savvy

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Another fatal farm accident report hits my ears, just after presenting to a large group in Westlock, Alberta. “Another young farm widow joins a club she doesn’t ever want to belong to, I wonder how she will manage the farm, her family, herself.” I wonder. Now that I belong to the “Freedom 55” club, I […] Read more
Columns, Farm Life

Life on the farm goes way too fast

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Have you ever noticed how life speeds by on the farm? One day your children are terrifying you because they want to run under the cows’ bellies, the next they are half a foot taller than their dad and buying their first house. Our latest development has really been one of those moments. Our oldest […] Read more
Farm Life

Pears for the Prairies

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Today, I’m writing about pear trees for the very first time, but first please read the following carefully. Here’s one more reminder. The tomato varieties I wrote about in my January 23, 2012 column are NOT free. They are for sale by Upper Canada Seeds in Toronto. Please do not write to them asking for […] Read more
Farm Life

Easy-to-build hen feeder

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Hens can be easily upset if things deviate from the expected norm, therefore they should never run out of feed once laying has begun. Taking this into account I built an efficient automatic feeder that is simple and inexpensive to construct. Dimensions are flexible, but the one I built is 27 inches wide, 24 inches […] Read more
Columns, Farm Life

Clear, concise communication

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Elaine, I am feeling paralyzed and overwhelmed with this farm transfer thing.” “How do I talk to the kids without emotions running wild?” “We do fine until we try to get a sit-down family meeting with an agenda, then no one is really honest with what is going on here.” Communication that is clear and […] Read more
Farm Life

Making memories — one stitch at a time

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Henriette Schultz of Debden, Saskatchewan is a farmwife who enjoys doing cross-stitch, providing her with an opportunity to create realistic cross-stitch portraits. Having learned the art in 2005, Schultz now creates projects that are picture perfect. She began cross-stitching with a kit and upon completion thought that there must be a better way to create […] Read more
Farm Life

The gift of contentment

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As part of the redecorating project of my flooded basement, I took an ancient (faded) mountain print gold-framed picture to the glass guys, and had a mirror put into the frame. The print had faded to blues, but the story behind the picture prompted me to “repurpose” what other designers might label “junk.” This was […] Read more

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