Farm girl. Farm wife. Farmer's daughter. Agriculture advocate. Ag marketer. Ag volunteer.
Calving is in full swing on my family farm in southern Manitoba. My young farmer brother was kind enough to snap the following photos of some of our cute baby calves to share with you all. My family says that the unseasonably mild winter across the Prairies has made calving easier. I've always loved animals,... Continue Reading →
I'm currently living with a coworker and her husband for about two months while I'm working in Calgary. My coworker told me about a conversation she and her husband had prior to my arrival. He asked her what she knew about me. She said, not much. He said, well, what if she's a pyromaniac or... Continue Reading →
As I've mentioned before on this blog, my family farms just north of the Canada-United States border in southern Manitoba. We have some land on the border. To give you an idea I thought I'd share a few photos of the borderline in this Wordless Wednesday blog post. I spent this past weekend at the farm... Continue Reading →
... and only had access to one kind of food and one kind of drink, what would they be? Of course my answer would be Ritz crackers and Good Host iced tea! (I guess I would also need clean drinking water to make the iced tea). I grew up on Good Host iced tea and... Continue Reading →
As I've mentioned before on this blog, I grew up in what many people would consider the middle-of-nowhere - a family farm just north of the Manitoba-North Dakota border. Because we're so close to the U.S. border we get North Dakota radio and TV stations. Growing up we had FarmerVision, also known as Poor Man's... Continue Reading →
This past weekend I travelled to the family farm for Thanksgiving and captured these beautiful sunset photos. I love the amazing colors. I've been fortunate to experience sunrises and sunsets around the world but nothing I've seen measures up to the beauty of a Prairie sunset (I may be a bit biased!). Happy Wednesday!
Going around the table and having each person say what they were thankful for was a Thanksgiving tradition at my extended family gatherings growing up. As a child the answers usually were friends, family, toys and food, especially food. We were, after all, waiting to dig into a delicious spread that always included turkey and all the... Continue Reading →
A true farm girl isn't afraid to get down and dirty. I put my Agriculture in the City work gloves to good use this weekend helping my mom clean up part of the garden. (To learn more about the Ag in the City event read this blog post I wrote last April). In the photo... Continue Reading →
What does it take to get that loaf of bread into your hands? Wheat grown by a farmer is ground into flour and used to make that bread. Rewind the process and you begin with a wheat seed. Wheat is the cornerstone of many of the world’s most basic foods. This spring I decided to... Continue Reading →
During last week's International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ) 2011 Congress I participated in the two-day Lake Ontario agriculture tour. The tour took us east of Toronto to visit a bison farm and a maple syrup business. From there we drove to Prince Edward County, a piece of fertile land jutting into Lake Ontario, where... Continue Reading →
Rural Route Ramblings 