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In recent years, late blight has been a common issue among a lot of home tomato growers. Mountain Merit has good resistance to multiple diseases including high tolerance to late blight. Compact determinate plants produce a concentrated set of medium-size red tomatoes mid-season during a harvest window of four to five weeks.
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Start thinking about potatoes and tomatoes this month

Singing Gardener: March is the time to sprout spuds and start seeds

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March is a good month to begin sprouting potatoes and starting tomatoes. Also, will be sharing Part 1 of excerpts from two pages of a handwritten letter. Top that off with where to buy late blight-resistant tomato seeds. There’s a song that says, “I need attention bad.” Did I get yours? Thank you folks for […] Read more
Prairie version of the French salade nicoise
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Prairie version of the French salade nicoise

Using leftovers of baked northern pike made a very ‘nice salad’

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One day, my husband came home with a leg of deer under his arm, cleaned, wrapped and frozen. I made venison stew flavoured with juniper berries and thyme. Another day, I answered a knock at the door to find a friend, box in hand, offering me a moose roast and two breasts of grouse. The […] Read more
Mexican pork carnitas
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Mexican pork carnitas

There’s lots of oranges and limes available now so this is a perfect time to make this

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I remember the first time I picked an orange. Not from the produce section. Not from a fruit bowl. Not from the recesses of my Christmas stocking. Picked an orange from a real orange tree. I remembered it today because I just picked an orange and the smell took me back to the first time […] Read more
Shown are unnamed and ready-to-be-washed sweet potato tubers freshly harvested in the field along with segments of vines and even some flowers.
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More potato and tomato information

Singing Gardener: Plus, a bit about Jerusalem artichokes

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Hey there — hello gardeners and welcome farmers. Are you striving to become more self-sufficient with what you grow in the garden? Tubers of the vine and tomatoes get some attention today with some focus placed on storage tomatoes. Add to that a source for rooted short-season sweet potato slips from an adventurous grower and […] Read more
Juniper berries — tasty addition to venison stew
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Juniper berries — tasty addition to venison stew

Prairie Palate: These are perfect added to any stew made with wild ingredients but also go well with beef

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One crisp winter day I set out to pick juniper berries at a local park. I planned to make bigos, an old Polish stew, for a dinner party that week, for which juniper berries are a traditional ingredient. Being both frugal and old-fashioned, I decided to forage the junipers in the wild, or at least […] Read more
Get those conversations with parents started about changes on the farm.
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How to get those conversations started

Young people are often wondering how to start talking with parents about changes on the farm

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Februrary 21, 2017 is a HUGE day for me. I feel like an expectant mother, (even at age 60!) as today marks the launch of our baby, an online course “Get Farm Transition Unstuck.” Why have I spent hundreds of hours with my co-writer Dr. Megan Mckenzie to create practical tools? It’s because young farmers […] Read more
Pepitas are the seeds from an oilseed pumpkin variety.
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Pumpkin seeds with no shells

Pepitas are loaded with nutrition and have no hulls

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Growing up, pumpkin seeds were a once-a-year treat. As a child there was the confusion of whether they were to be shelled like a sunflower seed or just chewed. Personally, the hulls were a bit too fibrous, but once you got inside, those seeds were very yummy. As an adult I noticed that there were […] Read more
Curtis Weber shares his story across Canada and the U.S. — why his incident happened 
and how it could have been prevented.
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Incident becomes teaching tool for farm/workplace safety

After more than 42 surgeries Curtis Weber now lives life as a double amputee

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On July 29, 1999, Curtis Weber had the world by the tail. At 17 years old, just out of high school, he’d signed to play junior hockey with the Drayton Valley Thunder. It was a sunny Friday, the August long weekend and a northern lake fishing trip was coming up. But before the sun would […] Read more
Got winter blues? Try sprouting some greens
FarmLife, Fruit/Vegetables

Got winter blues? Try sprouting some greens

Sprouts are delicious and packed with nutrition and only take a few days to grow

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My green thumb gets a little twitchy in wintertime and there’s only one cure. I start a little garden on the windowsill, planting to plate in just five days. Yes, I am speaking of sprouts. Delicious, nutritious and green. It is well documented that sprouts are more nutritious than the seeds themselves and, in some […] Read more
It’s amazing how fast chicks learn to scratch and peck.
FarmLife, Poultry/Eggs

Planning for a new season of what to plant and grow

Winter evenings are spent going over catalogues and making those decisions

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Farmers have a hard time with winter. A part of us just wants to be in the dirt. Basically farmers want to farm, and this starts very young in some people. In an effort to keep our two-year-old grandson from “farming” in our houseplants this winter we did a small experiment with a house farm. […] Read more

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