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By Gary Sliworsky Ag rep, Emo Marketing has a direct impact on your overall business success. Changing buyer demands, local and global competition, and other market forces have resulted in the business of agriculture moving from being focused on production to being market-driven. A marketing plan develops strategies for marketing […]

In 1966, our young family sadly decided to leave Edmonton, Alta. because my husband had accepted a teaching position in a small church-related college in Kansas. Designed by British city planners, Edmonton is a wonderful place. At the time, the streets were all numbered. The north-south streets were called “avenues” […]

The image of my grandmother is blurred in my memory. She was short, with thick glasses, and her hair was wrapped in something that resembled mosquito netting. I don’t recall her ever smiling and certainly can’t remember a single laugh. She frightened me—not with cruelty or meanness, but with her […]

I was very sad to learn this week of the announced receivership of Northern Sawmills, Atikokan Forest Products, Great West Timber, and Buchanan Northern Hardwoods. My heart goes out to the hard-working former employees at these mills and their families, who have suffered greatly for some time. I want you […]

By Melanie Mathieson The Gardening Guru Double digging is a technique used by gardeners when they need to work their garden soil deeper than traditional methods, such as regular digging, cultivating, or tilling. Although double digging is hard, laborious work, it is very effective in assisting you in upgrading the […]

I like my cup of coffee in the morning—and I like a strong, robust flavour. Each morning, I go into the kitchen and grind my coffee beans until they are almost like dust. The grinding fills the immediate area with the smell of coffee. I then fill the pot with […]

Ice fishing has become a serious activity among Sunset Country anglers in recent years. An outing these days no longer consists of just drilling a couple of holes, and then hoping a fish swims by and maybe bites your jig. Most anglers today want to catch fish when they go […]

As part two of a series of three columns on cutting, this one will focus on cutting boards. If you missed my previous column on knives, please e-mail me at dez@chefdez.com and I will be more than happy to send it to you. The next column will focus on cutting […]

If any of you have ever attended a meeting with me, you will have noticed my large, over-flowing daytimer. I don’t leave home without it. Even though I thoroughly love my BlackBerry, I still cannot give up my daytimer. It gives me comfort in writing down my lists, meetings, and […]

I’ve just come from the doctor’s office and the first “Well Woman” check-up of my 50s, having reached that inaugural aging mountain last October. And while I don’t believe “it’s all downhill from here,” it would appear that if I want the grass to stay green on this side of […]