Rethinking Lifestyle

Soybeans is a very recent crop to Manitoba. However, soybeans is not a recent crop in the world.

Inflation occurs when too much money chases too few goods. That’s pretty simple. But how to prevent it is not simple.

It’s the time of year those of us who’ve attempted to garden, or stick solely to local fare, realize if we don’t eat wheelbarrow loads of one kind of veggie for a week at a time, it goes to waste quickly, and then we won’t see the same variety until next year at the same time.

I was delighted to read Kate Raworth’s book, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist.

When I reflect on my culture and gardening, the first thing that comes to mind is the teaching about the Three Sisters, which are Squash, Corn, and Beans.

Forages are food for animals either by being grazed or by harvesting the whole plant, stems, leaves and all. Alfalfa is considered the queen of forages.

Oats was the crop that used to power our farms. When draft horses were the means of plowing and seeding, oats was a major crop on the prairies.

The mustard family of plants, also called Brassica is very diverse and has numerous members. Our canola, Brassica napus is from this family, but so is kale, rutabaga, turnip, swede, cabbage, broccoli, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, mustard and many more.

More than 23,000 years ago in southeastern Turkey, many wild grasses grew wild.

Climate change is a very real threat to humankind’s existence as we know it, with warning signs galore. There are many distractions that interfere with our addressing climate change effectively.