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REFLECTIONS

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Reading Time: 2 minutes I am walking through a hospital corridor when a picture on the wall catches my attention. Riders on pinto and paint horses parallel a creek. Their leaders turn into the forest. Snow-covered mountains in the background remind me of southwestern Alberta. I often rode my horse Apache, who had markings resembling the horses in the […] Read more
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Depression — a hidden condition

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Depression is more common than you may think. An estimated one in 10 Canadians will have depression at some time in their lives. And there is another big number too. Two-thirds of Canadians who suffer depression will receive no therapy, either medication or non-drug. The reasons for this lack of treatment range from cultural habits […] Read more
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Emotions to the rescue

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Inevitably, when farms expand to include multiple family members, family dynamics change. Before we talk about the stresses and strains that this can produce, we shouldn’t lose sight of the fundamental positives that this change brings to the farm.


Reading Time: 8 minutes “If there is stress and conflict in your family, it will almost inevitably trace its roots back to a lack of effective communication at some point in the family system,” says Richard Cressman. Cressman, a six-foot tall former dairy farmer from New Hamburg, Ont. isn’t the sort of person you’d expect to be talking about […] Read more
Guide Life, Hanson Acres

Carry the load

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Reading Time: 4 minutes When Elaine stepped inside the Hanson Acres cleaning plant she found three generations of Hanson men all focused on the same thing. Her father-in-law Dale was balancing at the top of a six-foot ladder, trying to hold on to one end of an eight-foot iron shaft as he pulled it out of the fanning mill. […] Read more
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In for the long haul

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Cousin Allison’s wedding dance had reached the point where the women were discoing to Village People songs, small kids were roaming the hotel ballroom like a pack of wolves, and Allison’s father had cut off the flow of free liquor. “I got to the bartender just in time,” said Dale Hanson’s nephew Mark, almost spilling […] Read more
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Keeping it together

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Reading Time: 5 minutes The countryside isn’t immune to the trendlines in divorce. Recently I was at a party chatting with another farm couple when the subject of divorce came up. They told me they knew eight farm couples in their area who are in the process of splitting up. I was shocked, but as I talk to more […] Read more
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REFLECTIONS

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Reading Time: 2 minutes In the movie The Adventures of Tintin a young crime reporter named Tintin forms an unlikely alliance with a sea captain named Haddock. At one point the captain says “My memory is not as good as it used to be.” Tintin queries “What did it used to be?” The captain replies “I can’t remember.” Memory […] Read more
Health

Don’t put up with dry skin

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Everyone experiences dry skin at some time, and in our climate dry skin is extremely common in the cold, dry months of winter. Preventing dry skin is definitely better than experiencing the flaking and itching! Your skin covers the entire exterior of your body and has a surface area of close to two square metres […] Read more
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Saving face on the Sideroad

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Reading Time: 3 minutes I took the family to one of the neighbourhood parties at the Fisher place down on the River Road over the holidays. It was a pretty typical mix of farm and small-town families. The men stood in the heated garage, holding beers and moaning about the price of pinto beans and foliar fungicides. The women […] Read more
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You’re never too old for shingles

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Even if you have never been affected by shingles, you probably know that it is an extremely painful skin rash with blistering. However, what you may not know is that shingles is caused by the reactivation of the virus that causes chicken pox, known as the varicella zoster virus. Chicken pox is a childhood viral […] Read more

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