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Growing vegetable and fruit crops in Canada: Part 1 of a series

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Garden crops from beans to apples have been a passion of mine from my childhood in Wales. On our small 17-acre Welsh farm in southwest Wales, we grew or raised most of the vegetable food that we ate from potatoes to apples as well as milk, eggs, pork and chickens. The mild climate allowed us […] Read more
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Crops

Smucker to shed Bick’s brand

Pickle brand, other Canadian condiments to go to TreeHouse

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U.S. food firm J.M. Smucker has a deal in place to sell off the Canadian pickle brand Bick’s and a portfolio of condiment brands it makes for the Canadian market. Ohio-based Smucker announced Oct. 17 it will sell the Bick’s brand plus the Habitant pickled beets, Woodman’s horseradish and McLarens pickled onions brands to Illinois […] Read more
The Agriculture Enlightened conference, held Oct. 26 in Winnipeg and hosted by EMILI, is trying to help Canada become a leader in digital and precision agriculture. (John Deere photo)
Crops, Machinery

Robots may help grain farmers diversify

Tech could support labour-intensive higher-value crops

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Chuck Baresich, who owns an agricultural robotics business in Ontario, says controlling weeds with robots is probably best suited for high-value, horticultural crops in Canada. However, large-scale grain farmers could also use the technology if they think about it differently. “Let’s say my brother and me are growing 1,500 acres of corn,” said Baresich, who […] Read more
Potatoes harvested from container-grown Melody potato plants from EarthApples. Melody has smooth skin, dry flesh and can be boiled and mashed. It also has high yield potential and overall good resistance to late blight on plants and common scab and bruising on tubers.
Farm Life

The best times to go fishing

Singing Gardener: Plus a few things you may not know about potatoes and melons

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My grandma on my mother’s side loved to go berry picking. She was a berry picker through and through, seeking out wild saskatoon and chokecherry bushes. Together, we often picked raspberries from canes at her home garden patch too. If there was anything she taught me I was qualified to do, it was picking raspberries. […] Read more
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Crops, Reuters

Limagrain offers to buy out seed maker Vilmorin

Pride Seeds co-owner has majority stake in veg seed firm

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Paris | Reuters — French agricultural co-operative Limagrain has offered to buy the 28.78 per cent of Vilmorin it does not already own in a deal that values one of the world’s biggest seed suppliers at 1.43 billion euros (C$2.13 billion). Limagrain said on Friday it was offering 62.60 euros per Vilmorin share, a premium […] Read more
The flavourful leaves of Top Bunch collards can be used for making cabbage rolls.
Farm Life

Try collards in your cabbage rolls

Singing Gardener: Here are some tips on how to grow them

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Here at my home turf in southern Manitoba, there are community gardens. The property owner rents out a piece of land during the summer to gardeners who are eager to do their own thing, and there’s always a waiting list to get a spot. The emphasis on planting as much of our own food as possible […] Read more
Bishop’s Flower is an easy-to-grow annual that likes full sun to light shade exposure, blooms from mid- to late summer and beckons pollinators by the hundreds.
Farm Life

Bishop’s Flower a boon to beneficial insects

Singing Gardener: Plus a recipe for pickled carrots

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Some proverbs! “It is a wise father that knows his own child.” I don’t often hear that one anymore, but it was a common expression when I was a kid. Conversely there’s a proverb that says, “It’s a wise child that knows its own father.” There’s this one for a young man seeking a mate: “He […] Read more
Here are just a few of the fats you can use for cooking. Pictured are (left to right) coconut oil, butter, olive oil in a carafe, pork fat, a jar of toasted sesame oil and schmaltz.

Farm Life

Don’t fear fat in your food

First We Eat: Fats are a prime nutrient source and serve more than one role in the kitchen

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“What do you think of when you hear the word schmaltz?” I ask my husband Dave. He hesitates for half a heartbeat. “Soppy, sentimental writing or music,” he says. Dave’s a retired journalist, a card-carrying lover of edgy jazz and R&B, fan of hardbitten detective and police procedural TV shows and writer of lean short […] Read more
A day’s harvest from Sue Kraft’s garden in 2021. It’s a labour of love when it’s veggie-picking time for carrots, corn, cukes, lettuce, peas and tomatoes.
Farm Life

Pick of the crop

Singing Gardener: When it comes to carrots, Scarlet Nantes is hard to beat

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Hello young people, hello senior citizens and welcome to everyone in-between who is trying hard to make ends meet and keep afloat on the river of economic problems — in particular, the high cost of food. We’re glad to be gardeners and keepers of the soil. Cost-wise, it’s hard to eat healthy if you’re eating […] Read more
Ted Meseyton among the plum trees
Farm Life

Have a plum tree but no plums? Here are some tips to help it bear fruit

Singing Gardener: Plus advice for getting an amaryllis plant to rebloom

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Is the melody of your life without some of the right notes or is there a barrier standing between your health and happiness? There’s an old saying that a person with his health has a thousand dreams but a person without health wants only to get well. More and more gardeners of all ages are taking greater responsibility for […] Read more

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