Farm Ready! Happy New Year!
January 3rd, 2012. The count down has turned to a count up. As the winter solstice comes and goes all I can think about are longer days and greener (rotationally grazed) pastures. I sit, with a cup of...
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Rural Youth Taking Action; Challenging the Myth
“Small rural towns are dead-end wastelands for intelligent and creative young people.” This is the myth that is so often placed upon rural youth in our society – especially those growing up in smaller communities and farming families.
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Greenhouse Exponential
The more we spend time observing nature, the more we come to see its processes as exponential: the small beginnings, the gradual early phases, and—just when we start to get antsy—the speed picks up and allofasuddenBAM it’s over, or they’re ripe, or it’s done.
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Local Food Heroes to the Rescue!
Those of us who buy our food locally do it for a variety of reasons. One of the reasons you might often hear is the value of being part of a “local food community”. Whatever could this mean? I’ll...
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Eggs. Winter. Keeping up is hard to do.
The update on eggs – seems that everyone is always asking for them and that the Harvest Moon Local Food Initiative farmers have a hard time keeping up! Winter time is here which means a shift in our...
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The Harvest Moon Society (HMS) is the culmination of over ten years of developing relationships, research and rural revitalization projects taking place in and around Clearwater, Manitoba. It was founded on the spirit of cooperation, community, camaraderie, and a keen interest in building a sustainable food system for future generations. About the HMS »
