At the start of the 20th century Agnes Fast felt it was time for a change. She didn’t want to be a farmer. She wanted to be a certified nurse and serve her community with a modern skillset that could only come by going to post-secondary school.
Over the last few months one of the things that most of us have discovered is that there can be a danger of getting too much information.
This year Earth Overshoot day falls on August 22. August 22 is the day some scientists have calculated that we, the inhabitants of the earth, will have consumed as much this year as the planet can produce in a whole year.
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.
