A hundred years ago, the food consumed in southeastern Manitoba was grown locally, and the main input going into the growing of that food was local labour.
What can a Transition Town really achieve? That was the question a colleague asked me the other day when I said I was writing an article on behalf of the South Eastman Transition Initiative.
According to Miriam-Webster, to be addicted is to devote or surrender oneself to something habitually or compulsively.
If your garden is anything like ours, we are starting to get an abundance of certain vegetables. This month it’s beets.
With summer finally arriving, bringing hot humid weather it can be tempting to reach for the air conditioning controls if you have them and blasting the air cool.
Vic Toews’ retirement last month means that Provencher will be having a by-election soon; at the time of this writing it has not yet been called, but it’s expected to come sometime in September.
We all have opinions on the weather – it’s too cold, too hot, too windy, winters are not like they used to be, never known weather like this, wetter than usual, drier than usual. Weather is never just right!
When most of our food is trucked in from all over the globe it is comforting to know that there is local food available. The question is how do you get a hold of it if you don’t own your own fruit trees or large garden?
I passed by gardens at the University of Manitoba on a rainy day last week, and was surprised to see that maintenance staff were setting up sprinklers to water the lawns and flowerbeds – surely this was unnecessary and they could be doing something else?
Two weeks ago, I suggested that many thoughtful Steinbach residents recognize that car culture, as we currently experience it in Steinbach, is not sustainable.
