Our provincial government recently made an exciting announcement regarding funding to Winnipeg and the surrounding areas.
Well it has been almost three weeks now, and still no rain again. In typical Manitoba fashion we had a week of heavy downpours before it simply ends. So it is time for a good reminder to water your plants, and here is how.
Mennonite Heritage Village is often the first stop for visitors coming from the east. Sometimes they make their plans in advance, sometimes they see our billboard on Highway 1 and decide to make a detour.
The recent increase in COVID-19 numbers in our province has caused greater concern regarding the coronavirus among Manitobans than likely existed during the days when few if any cases were being reported.
Surely the advent of more efficient electric lights ought to be hailed as a great step forward for energy conservation, since lighting consumes a hefty 6.5 percent of the world’s energy supply.
Bishops Goutweed, Snow on the mountain, gout-wort, ground elder, wild Master wort, what is this plant? Well regardless of some of the rather unappealing names it actually is a rather beautiful perennial.
Recently I’ve been writing about how mass movements change the world. This includes the Protestant Reformation, Black Lives Matter, and the on-going Heritage movement that is keeping history alive so we can all learn from it.
While there is much of summer left, it is the traditional time when some thought would turn to the upcoming school year for those that have school aged children at home.
As we wait for our government to devise its next stimulus package, a stimulus intended to help us all cope with the fallout of the corona virus pandemic, we all wonder what more our government can do.
Have you ever pondered this in your own yard… a flowering crab apple tree is growing and then suddenly it changes colour and switches on you.
