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Passing on cooking skills to the next generation often falls by the wayside due in part to the easy availability of takeout and processed foods.
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Adulting 101

Got a teenager who will soon be off to school? Do them a favour with these life lessons

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Reading Time: 5 minutes While farm kids learn many things that their urban counterparts never get to experience, it’s also possible that in the busy-ness of life on the farm, some skills needed for independent living can get overlooked. It’s just easier to keep getting their meals for them, doing their laundry for them, helping them sort their money […] Read more
If you’re feeling more isolated lately out in the country you’re not alone. According to Stats Canada, rural populations are on a slow decline.
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Alone on the farm, or lonely?

Farm life can be more isolating and more challenging than ever, making it even more important to ask yourself these questions

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Christi Friesen has learned to recognize signs that she’s heading into a spiral of negative thinking — and it usually happens when she’s pulling 18-hour days on the tractor on her Peace River farm in Alberta. “When you’re out in the boondocks, your closest neighbour is a half-mile away and you’re working alone and you’re […] Read more
Tips for better emailing
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Tips for better emailing

These apps can make your business and family communications more efficient, but you still need to write clearly

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Reading Time: 5 minutes The irony is that even though we have more ways to communicate than ever before, somehow we seem to be always be getting worse at the job. We are inundated with emails and distracted by text messages, and it feels like we’re always trying to puzzle out what some sender meant to say, or whether […] Read more
“If you have only ever travelled as a tourist, it can be quite overwhelming,” says Hilborn after returning from Tanzania. “Be flexible and adapt to conditions. You can’t panic.”
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Volunteering overseas?

Volunteering in a developing country can be a life-defining experience. Here’s what to know before you sign up

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Reading Time: 5 minutes In winter 2019, Donald Hilborn spent three months volunteering on an agricultural research project in Morogoro, Tanzania. It was a gratifying experience for Hilborn but he cautions that it’s essential to do your homework and choose carefully when travelling on a volunteer mission to a developing country. “You need a support system,” says Hilborn, who […] Read more
Calcium is the basis for healthy bones.
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Guide Health: How to help prevent osteoporosis

Men can be impacted as well, and are more likely to end up in a nursing home

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Osteoporosis is linked to low bone density, a decrease in bone strength and deterioration of bone structure. And, with this loss of bone integrity comes an increased risk for fractures, most notably hip and wrist fractures. Unfortunately, by the time you realize your have osteoporosis, it may be too late to build healthy bone. Bone […] Read more
Supportive communities. The key to resilience
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Supportive communities. The key to resilience

There are recurring themes to resilience. We have 12 of them

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Society likes to idealize the rugged individual who, against all odds, manages to overcome their difficult life circumstances and succeed in a big way. There is a problem with this narrative, though, says Dr. Michael Ungar, a family therapist and researcher at Dalhousie University. Personal resilience actually has a lot more to do with the […] Read more
A single pod of some e-cigarettes contains more nicotine than a whole pack of tobacco cigarettes.
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Guide Health: Vaping. Please take care

Lung damage is starting to be noticed with the increased use of e-cigarettes

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Reading Time: 2 minutes E-cigarettes and vaping have been in the news recently with concerns about their safety and health risks. While nicotine is often an ingredient in these products, there may be other substances too. Electronic cigarettes or e-cigarettes were designed to be an alternative to smoking and are actually promoted as a way to quit smoking. It […] Read more
The rise of popularity in the internet has generated the unfortunate rise in cybercrime as well.
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How to protect yourself online

Cybercriminals used to go after big business. Now they know you’re easier to hit

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Reading Time: 4 minutes The internet has been a boon to farm businesses. Whether it’s ordering farm supplies online, hosting an online store, problem solving, communicating with the farm team and other farmers, accessing detailed weather forecasts or marketing info, the list of the ways we rely on the internet every day is long. Unfortunately, as the internet has […] Read more
“The brain responds,” researcher Fraser Smith says. “It’s like taking an empty field on a farm that’s been lying fallow, and starting to till it and planting seeds.”
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Keep it smart

How about a little maintenance for the organ you depend on the most

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Reading Time: 5 minutes The old adage, “use it or lose it” really is true when it comes to our brains. Problem solving, processing speed and thinking can all go downhill as we age, says Dr. Fraser Smith, a professor, researcher and clinician at the National University of Health Sciences near Chicago. But there’s good news too. We can […] Read more
Have you ever noticed that your sense of taste all but disappears when you’re congested with a cold or a bout of the flu?
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Guide Health: Your nose – nothing to sneeze at

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Reading Time: 3 minutes We all take our noses for granted. We breathe through them and smell odours with them, but you really only notice them when your’s doesn’t work well. Yes, you can breathe through your mouth, but you miss the warming and filtering of the air that your nose normally provides. And you may miss being able […] Read more

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