Marleen Conacher doesn’t sweat the small stuff during harvest. You just do what you have to do and hope everything works out, she says.


The most important harvest fuel: meals

Getting those meals to the field is a big part of the harvest season

Harvest can be a hectic, stressful time of year. Will the weather co-operate? Will that canola field yield as well as expected? Will the combine break down at the worst possible time? In the middle of all that action is a much-loved tradition for many farm families — meals in the field. As my friend […] Read more

Meals in the field can be a challenge to plan for.

Tribulations of cooking for the harvest crew

How many to cook for? Where are we eating? Did they move fields? Are there enough utensils packed?…

I came across an article on my Facebook feed during harvest titled “10 Reasons Cooking for a Family Sucks.” It was humorous, as the articles from the popular parenting website Scary Mommy often are, but I noted how similar I feel at this time, cooking for our harvest crew. We have a really amazing system, […] Read more


Leo Millard horses around with his granddaughter, Julianna, while Wanda Millard unpacks harvest supper and hired man Myron Lipteck looks on.

Feeding the harvest crew

Harvest meals are more than just food

The harvest meal in the field is a tradition that’s still alive on western Canadian farms. But fuelling the harvest crew isn’t an easy task, especially when a person is also wrangling kids and running for parts. Wanda Millard is a veteran when it comes to harvest meals. 2016 marked her 11th harvest with her […] Read more

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Meals in the field?

Harvesting season is so busy, but make meals a time to get together with family

In my family, harvest suppers were a simple affair. My dad preferred a cold supper in a lunch box containing no item he couldn’t eat with one hand while steering the combine with the other. The driver of the grain truck (usually my brother Tom) might come in for a quick supper in the time […] Read more