Back-To-The-Future Agriculture: 'Farming Like the Earth Matters'
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It is easy to forget that once upon a time all agriculture was organic, grass fed, and regenerative. Story here.
Conservative MP Absent From a Child Poverty Forum in Southwestern Manitoba.
Are hungry kids a priority for the Harper government? by Larry Powell The forum (for the riding of Dauphin - Swan River - Neepawa) was sponsored by the Mission and Services Committee of the Neepawa United Church. It drew about 80 people to the church on Wednesday. But only four of the five candidates (see below) took part in the debate - Ray Piché (Liberal), Kate Storey (Green Party), Inky Mark (Ind.) and Laverne Lewycky (NDP) . The 5th candidate, the sitting Conservative MP for the area, Robert Sopuck (represented by the empty chair on the right), did not attend. His office manager in Neepawa, Christine Waddell, said he was in Inglis, a small community in the western part of the riding for the evening. She did not elaborate. But she did explain that a campaign worker was mistaken when he told forum organizers earlier that Mr. Sopuck would, in fact be there. Piché , the Liberal candidate, said the MP's absence showed “disrespect” for the rest of the candidates
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I am a first generation Canadian, born and raised on a Manitoba farm.
I did not take up farming as my livelihood; however I did learn that farm life can be extremely rewarding and also frustrating with its many challenges. I also learned to realize that water and nature (environment) were to be treated with the utmost respect and courtesy and used with a sense of dignity and gratitude.
I now live on a farm near Virden, in southwestern Manitoba and devote time to writing about nature, water and the environment.
I do this because it seems, to me, that we have become abusers of what we need most to help us survive.
Nature is literally screaming about the impact we are putting on her; yet we think wistfully of what we are doing and what has been
lost and dismiss it as the “price of progress”
I believe we have to start putting moral ethics back into our present day society and also start and rede- fine “progress.