Rebeca Kuropatwa

Reading Time: 5 minutes It was never going to be easy. Gwen Donohoe knew that, the same way that every farm kid knows that taking over the family farm is going to demand total commitment. Yet it isn t the hard work that has convinced Donohoe she needs to keep a least one foot in the city. She wasn […] Read more

Reading Time: 6 minutes Cliff Suntjens enjoys telling the story. One swelteringly hot day, I was out soil testing with Valery, a Russian agrologist, and our driver, Suntjens tells me. We d been out for hours and were all tired and sweaty when Valery suggested a swim. He directed our driver to cut across country to a large reservoir […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes It s an exaggeration to say that farmers and consumers are on opposite ends of the direct-marketing debate, with consumers wanting farmers to pull up their driveways and drop off the week s local food, and with farmers saying, Thanks, but that isn t what I do. But as exaggerations go, it isn t that […] Read more

Reading Time: 5 minutes Roly Reenders story starts out the way a lot of Canadian farm stories start, with Reenders taking over the family operation when his father retired. But that s about as far as the similarities go. Reenders father wasn t a typical farmer, and it wasn t a typical farm. Instead, his father was a full-time […] Read more

Reading Time: 5 minutes Dwayne Logan is convinced. Any new farmer not starting off with a lot of money or help from their parents is better off taking the sustainable farming route, Dwayne tells me as we walk the 600 acres he and Shelley farm near Nesbitt, about 15 minutes south of Brandon, Man. The question is, what does […] Read more