Rethinking Lifestyle

If you decided to raise backyard chickens this year, you may be starting with chicks. Starting chicks stands as the most challenging aspect of backyard chickens, and proper preparation is key to success.

I am reading a book called “How to Fix the Future”. Andrew Keen, the author of the book, says that indeed the future is going to be broken if we humans do not consciously intervene.

Reasons abound to keep backyard chickens – it might be for fun, food security, tick control or producing fresh eggs or meat on a budget.

Regenerative agriculture is the new organic agriculture in my opinion. In organic agriculture, the list of prohibitions is long and the list of what to do is absent.

Phosphate (P) is essential to plant growth. Phosphate in the soil is taken up by the growing plant and returned to the soil when the plant dies.

You’re sitting in front of a not-new, but not-old appliance, with a piece of it in your hand.

If you read this column last week, you could be forgiven if you think I am against electric vehicles. I’m not. I think it’s a move in the right direction.

Am I the only one baffled by the advertising we see on TV these days, specifically the advertising by our auto manufacturers?

Whether you’re new to gardening or a seasoned grower, have a large plot or a few containers, early planning is key to improving the success and productivity of your garden space.

A hundred years ago, residents of southeastern Manitoba kept their homes warm burning wood harvested locally. This was logical because everyone was living within a few miles of readily harvestable firewood.