Reading Time: 5 minutes In Canada’s northern regions, where the growing season is so short it can seem non-existent in any agricultural sort of way, fresh food from California and Mexico is not only expensive due to the transportation costs; all too often, it is no longer fresh. After experiencing first-hand how the high cost of fresh, healthy food […] Read more
Grow food anywhere
New Canadian startup Growcer already has 50 “vertical farms” in place in Canada. Get ready for a whole lot more
Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People)
Guide Books Review: How having even one difficult person can ruin an entire team
Reading Time: 4 minutes By Amy GalloHarvard Business Review Press Farming is seldom a solo venture. Not only do the older and the younger generations overlap but as farms get bigger and more complex, more employees get hired too, so learning to work with others is essential. Negative relationships are bad for business. We know this, but there’s still […] Read more
Guide Health: Taking care of your teeth is always a good idea
Some people have an increased risk for poor dental health. Are you one of them?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The saying is that everyone takes their teeth for granted unless they have a cavity. This underscores a very real problem. It is too easy to think that dental care is only useful for preventing tooth pain. Instead, it boosts our overall health too. Between one- and two-thirds of Canadians have had a cavity or […] Read more
Bringing back civility
In a world that is losing its manners, the next step is yours
Reading Time: 5 minutes Incidents of road rage are up. So are aggressive speeding and dangerous driving. Meanwhile, politicians are receiving death threats, even in rural municipalities, and we see so much lashing out at one another on social media. Is incivility rampant in our society today? It can certainly feel that way. What happened to the good manners […] Read more
Guide Health: Drugs for your brain’s health
Reading Time: 2 minutes Everyone worries about memory loss, but keep in mind that losing keys is not memory loss. Everyone misplaces their keys sometimes! The Alzheimer’s Society’s 2020 numbers have 569,600 Canadians living with a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and almost two-thirds are women, but women live longer than men and Alzheimer’s disease is a disease of older […] Read more
Temple Grandin’s Guide to Working with Farm Animals
Guide Books Review: Safe, Humane Livestock Handling Practices for the Small Farm
Reading Time: 3 minutes Temple Grandin’s Guide to Working with Farm Animals: Safe, Humane Livestock Handling Practices for the Small FarmBy Temple GrandinStorey Publishing, 192 pages What if there was a way to get inside your animals’ brains to figure out what they’re thinking and why they act in the (frustrating!) ways that they do? You can do exactly […] Read more
Get more resilient
By transforming adversity into resiliency, these strategies build a better you
Reading Time: 5 minutes During the pandemic, trauma counsellor Catherine Clark became intrigued by the idea of creating a Mental Health Resiliency Roadmap to help address the deep emotional pain, anxiety and burnout that families, businesses and communities were experiencing. Based on key findings in neural, cognitive and behavioural science, Clark wanted the resiliency roadmap to help individuals meet […] Read more
The way to retire
Especially on the farm, planning for a happy retirement really does a make a difference
Reading Time: 7 minutes Here’s an unpopular question. When are you going to retire from the farm? This is often a taboo topic because it’s hard to know when you’ll be ready, and just as hard, if not harder, to know what it means to retire. To a farmer, retirement could read like a death sentence. Or does it […] Read more
PHOTOS: Happy travels
Today’s farm life means more business and pleasure trips, so check out these gift ideas
Reading Time: < 1 minute Santa may be able to set off on an around-the-world trip with nothing more than a few carrots for the reindeer and Rudolph’s glowing nose for guidance, but our travels are a little more complex. Below, we’ve shopped the market in search of great ideas for the travellers in your life, whether they are frequent […] Read more
Guide Health: Travelling with medication
Take a copy of your prescriptions. This will help at the border, and also if your medications get lost
Reading Time: 2 minutes For the past several years, no one has been travelling, but now that it seems safer to do so, many people are visiting friends and relatives or just vacationing away from home. For anyone who takes medication regularly, passing through security at airports or even answering border security agents’ questions at a land crossing can […] Read more
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