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I noticed a few years back that I was buying my clothes faster than I was wearing them out. That is, I was buying a new shirt or pants before what I was wearing was ready to be cut into rags.

We like to test a lot of the plants we sell to see how they truly perform in our Manitoba winters. My yard is full of new test run plants, many of which we do not even sell yet.

Over the past few months, the curatorial department has been busy getting ready for the new temporary exhibit, “Mennonites at War”.

There have been many important budgets in the history of Manitoba. Through floods and fires, Manitoba’s finances are often challenged by forces that are not entirely in the control of the province.

I find the contradictions within the Canadian energy scene these days discouraging.

When Jesus walked on the face of this earth, he spoke to people desperately trying to find rest for their souls, and desperately trying to find God and desperately trying to be good, but they were finding the task impossible and were misguided by the same things that leads us a stray.

It is now January and the Mennonite Heritage Village is hosting our auditor, preparing to send out our donations receipts and making our plans for the months ahead. The staff are also busy preparing their budgets for 2021.

The peaceful transition of power. It is something that those of us who live in western democracies have largely taken for granted. We perform our civic duty of voting on election day and then, almost automatically, the winning party assumes power.

We buried our friend yesterday. Actually, we didn’t bury our friend. Because, well, COVID. But her family buried our friend privately.

In a world flooded by social media, how do you keep track of all the blogs out there in this world? Why would a local greenhouse even want to start a blog when there are huge websites dedicated to these kinds of things?