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St. Edwin of Northumbria
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In the year 616, King Ethelfrith was slain in battle by Redwald, King of the East Angles. Edwin of Deira became king of the whole kingdom of Northumbria and after the death of Redwald, he had a certain lordship over the other English kings. He married Ethelburga, daughter of St. Ethelbert, King of Kent after promising to allow her to practice her Christian religion. St. Paulinus was sent as chaplain to the Queen and bishop for his converts. When Queen Ethelburga gave birth to a daughter, she was baptized with twelve others on Whitsunday, and called Eanfleda; they were the first fruits of the Northumbrians. Edwin was a man of unusual wisdom and deliberated in his heart to which religion he should follow. Paulinus continued to instruct him and to pray for his conversion. King Edwin was baptized at York at Easter in the year 627, on the site of the present York Minster, in the wooden church of St. Peter which he had caused to be built. This good king had reigned seventeen years when the Welsh Cadwalon marched in arms against him with Penda of Mercia, a pagan. King Edwin met them at Hatfield Chase on October 12, 633, and in the ensuing battle he was slain. St. Edwin was certainly vernerated in England as a martyr, but though his claims to sanctity are else doubtful than those of some other royal saints, English and other, he has had no liturgical cultus so far as is known. His relics were held in veneration, churches were dedicated in his honour in London and at Brean in Somerset; and Pope Gregory XIII permitted him to be represented among the English martyrs on the walls of the chapel of the Venerabile at Rome. His feast day is October 12th.
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We week staying elsewhere, but we really liked the bar. The tapas menu is very good, and the service was excellent. Would definitely go back. The bar is clean, and modern and the location is very central.
I was at this hotel with my wife and our dog for a weekend.The hotel is perfectly located and it is easy to park the car near by it.The staff are quite friendly and nice. The price was reasonable and there was not any problem at all carrying our dog. ( We just paid a small supplement).We were lucky with the room booked and enjoyed a wonderful view of the castle from the room's window.So far, it is look like a perfect paradise. On the other hand, the room was very old, clean, but old. The worst was the bathroom, which was a bit unpleasant and uncomfortable. overall, the room was kind of depressing.But for the price paid and the others pros, I totally recommend this hotel for one or two nights maximum.
Arrived to be told the only room they had was in the loft, which was not a problem at 40 euros a night. But it was a problem when the bill was presented at 70 euros a night. Breakfast was a simple bread and ham or jam with coffee so thick a spoon would stand up, and not enough seats for the number of rooms. I could not recommend this hotel but maybe, when it is quieter, it may be better
The hotel is located right in the centre of Aracena.We stayed there for 7 nights and could park our car every day in front of the hotel, an advantage.The hotel and our room (337) was very clean, the room was spacious and looked basic but ok.The double bed was rather small for 2 people.Bathroom is spacious with everything we needed.This is a two star (no luxury) hotel, not brand new, but with an according price.Staff members are all very friendly and helpful.(We had a problem with an Avis rental, all receptionists offered to help wherever they could.)Next visit we would go there again.
I had a room in the first floor, with a view to the side street, to a grey wall, bars in front of the window, felt like in a prison, the room itself was small and I had the feeling that everything here is used, in a negative sense. The process of checking in was way too long and bureaucratic. It was not a great pleasure to stay in this hotel. Maybe I just got the worst room…Aracena is a stunning place, the Castillo and Temple have magical radiation. If you sit down the stairs for a few minutes on the backside of the temple, you can enjoy a perfect view and listen to the happy and playful swallows whizzing around. And for sure, don't miss the Gruta de las Marvillas…If you would like to eat something really good and tasty, just go to the restaurant LA REJA! One of my best experiences regarding restaurants, the food was more than excellent! Everything fresh and at every bite you have that "mmmh" feeling… just great, thanks guys for the passion for perfection! Best torta de queso ever! A lot of locals eat here and nobody speaks English… : ) Oh and the price is also very okay! I ate there three times and I would eat there close every day if I could…


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There are various works by authors in fiction and non-fiction which result in award winning novels. But the magic of books and the strength of the content can be realized even better when they are adapted into movies. Many such books were adapted into Hollywood Oscar winning movies. Prize winning books or not, when their stories are adapted by brilliant movie makers many of such stories in a sense become Oscar winning novels. Here is a brief summary of the many novels and books which went into becoming Academy Award winning movies for Best Picture from 1927 to 1950. You will not only create a list of nice movies to watch but also a list of books you got to read.
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front, a 1929 novel by Erich Maria Remarque was adapted into a movie by the same name in 1930 by producer Carl Leammle Jr. and directed by Lewis Milestone. The novel in a fictionalized way showed the plight of German soldiers during World War 1. On its release in 1930 the book was a huge success and sold one and a half million copies. In his own words Erich had described the impact of war on the masses as - "destroyed by war, even though it might have escaped its shells." The film adaptation of the novel became the first to win the Academy Awards for both Outstanding Production and Direction in the 1929-30 Academy Awards. Besides the two wins, the movie was also nominated in the Best Writing and Best Cinematography section too.
Cimarron, a 1931 movie produced by William LeBaron and Louis Sarecky and directed by Wesley Ruggles was an adaptation of the novel by the same name written by Edna Ferber. The main theme of the novel and movie was the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 which led many travellers to grab free government land in the Oklahoma territory. The novel published in 1929 was Edna Ferber's third successful novel. It was highly acclaimed right from its reception. The film adaptation not only won the Oscar for best movie, but also for Best Writing - Adaptation and Best Art Direction by Howard Estabrook and Max Ree respectively. Richard Dix and Irene Dunne who played the primary characters Yancey Cravat and Sabra Cravat were also nominated in the Best Actor and Best Actress category. The movie was also nominated for Best Director and Edward Cronjager was nominated in the Best Cinematography category.
Menchem im Hotel
Menchem im Hotel was a 1929 German novel by Vicki Baum which portrayed the lives of people in Berlin and their mental state in the 1920s in a fictionalized account. The novel was first made into the play Grand Hotel in 1930 by William A. Drake. Eventually this play was adapted under the same name into the big screen by producer Irving Thalberg and director Edmund Goulding. This film has a distinct aspect of winning the Academy Award for Best Picture without being nominated in any other category.
Night Bus
Night Bus was a 1933 short story by Samuel Hopkins Adams. It tells the story of a spoiled heiress of millions who escapes from her father and falls in love with a reporter. Though a short story, it deemed to have a lot of potential and Frank Capra in association with Harry Cohn decided to adapt the story into a movie and also direct the same. Eventually the movie was released in 1934 and titled as 'It Happened One Night'. The movie adaptation went on to win the five major Academy Awards which is considered as a unique feat for any movie. Besides the best picture category, Frank Capra won the Best Director award. Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert who played the protagonists Peter Warne and Ellen Andrews won the awards for Best Actor and Best Actress respectively. Robert Riskin won the Academy award for Best Writing, Adaptation.
Mutiny on the Bounty
Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall's 1932 novel Mutiny on the Bounty was based on the mutiny against the commanding officer, Lieutenant William Bligh of Bounty in 1789. The novel eventually became first of the three novels of 'The Bounty Trilogy'. Frank Lloyed co produced the movie adaptation of the novel along with Irving Thalberg while also wearing the director's cap. The film adaptation won the Academy Award for Best Picture in the 8th Academy Awards. A fun fact about the movie adaptation was that three actors from the movie Clark Gable who played Fletcher Christian, Charles Laughton who played Captain Bligh and Franchot Tone as Byam were nominated in the Best Actor category. The movie also had nominations in the Best Director category (Frank Lloyd), Best Writing Screenplay (Jules Furthman, Talbot Jennings and Carey Wilson), Best Music Scoring (Nat W. Finston and Herbert Stothart) and Best Film Editing (Margaret Booth) categories.
Gone with the Wind
Written by Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind was first published in 1936. Slavery, battles and dark sexuality were the main themes of the novel. For this astounding work Margaret Mitchell won the Pultizer prize in 1937. In BBC's The Big Read poll, Gone with the Wind was listed at number 21. Considering the magnanomity of the book, the movie had to be one that would cast a spell on its viewers. David O. Selznick produced the movie and Victor Fleming directed it. The movie went on to win 10 Academy Awards and had 13 nominations in the 12th Academy Awards in 1939. Besides the best picture win the list of Academy Awards wins and nominations for the movie are as under:
Victor Fleming won the Academy Award for Best Director.
Vivan Leigh's portrayal of the lead female protagonist Scarlett O' Hara garnered her the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Hattie McDaniel who portrayed the house servant Mammy won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Sidney Howard won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color.
Academy Award for Best Editing was won by Hal C. Kern and Ray Rennahan.
Lyle Wheeler won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction.
Besides the seven wins mentioned above the movie also received two honorary awards.
William Cameron Menzies won the Special award for the use of color to portray the temperament of the characters. Don Musgrave and Selznick International Pictures were given the Technical Achievement Award.
There were other nominations for the movie:
Clark Gable for his role as a visitor from Charlestone, Rhett Butler was nominated in the Best Actor category.
Oliva de Havilland for her portrayal as Melanie Hamilton was nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category.
The other three nominations were in the categories for Best Visual Effects (Jack Cosgrove, Fred Albin and Arthur Johns), Best Music Original Score (Max Steiner) and Best Sound Recording (Thomas T. Moulton).
Rebecca was an English novel written by the author Daphne Du Maurier and first published in 1938. The book has never went out of publication and has sold millions of copies. The titular character Rebecca in the book is dead before the series of events in the story and mainly revolves around the second wife of her husband Maximilian de Winter. Daphne Du Maurier won the National Book Award in the US for Rebecca in the same year of its first publication. It was a psychological thriller novel and David O. Selznick decided to produce the movie adaptation with the same name which was adapted by Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison. Robert and Joan were eventually nominated in the Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay. It was directed by Alfred Hitchcock and went on to win the 13th Academy Award for Best Picture. The movie was made in black and white and it's brilliant cinematography garnered George Barnes the Academy Award for the same. Alfred Hitchcock got a nomination for best director. Laurence Oliver who played the role of George Fortescue Maximilian "Maxim" de Winter and Joan Fontaine who played his second wife Mrs. de Winter were also nominated in the Best Actor and Best Actress categories respectively. Judith Anderson for her portrayal as the sinister housekeeper Mrs. Danvers received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress. The film had four other nominations for Best Film Editing (Hal C. Kern), Best Music - Original Score (Franz Waxman), Best Art Direction - Black and White (Lyle R. Wheeler) and Best Special Effects (Jack Cosgrove and Arthur Johns.)
How Green Was My Valley
How Green Was My Valley is a 1939 novel written by Richard Llewellyn. It tells the story of the Morgans family based in South Wales. The family works in mining and the story is from the perspective of one of the sons Huw Morgan who despises their way of lives. The movie adaptation of the novel by the same name was directed by John Ford and went on to win five academy awards. Darryl F. Zanuck's decision to produce the movie struck the bull's eye as the movie won the 14th Academy Award for Best Picture in 1941. John Ford received the Best Director Academy Award and Donald Crisp's portrayal of Gwilym Morgam, Huw's father garnered him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Arthur Charles Miller won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography - Black and White and Richard Day, Nathan H. Juran and Thomas Little for Best Black-and-White Art Direction - Interior Decoration. Besides the wins, Phillip Dunne was nominated in the category for Best Adapted Screenplay while Sara Allgood who played the role of Mrs. Beth Morgan, Huw's mother was nominated in the category for Best Supporting Actress. The other two nominations were for Best Music - Scoring of a Dramatic Picture (Alfred Newman) and Best Recording Sound (Edmund H. Hansen).
Mrs. Miniver
Mrs. Miniver a 1939 novel written by Joyce Anstruther under his pen name Jan Struther which illustrates how the life of an ordinary English housewife is changed because of World War II. While the stories were initially published as a series of columns in The Times newspaper in 1937, it took two more years for the book version to be compiled. The movie version produced by Sidney Franklin which won the 15th Academy Award for Best Picture in 1942 was directed by William Wyler who also won the Academy Award for Best Director. Greer Garson for her titular role of Mrs. Kay Miniver won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Teresa Wright for her portrayal of Carol Beldon won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West and Arthur Wimperis who adapted the novel and wrote the screenplay of the movie won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Joseph Ruttenberg won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography - Black and White for Mrs. Miniver. Besides the wins, Walter Pidgeon was nominated for his role as Mrs. Miniver's husband Clam Miniver in the Best Actor Category. Henry Travers who played the role of Mr. Ballard was nominated in the Best Supporting Actor's category. May Whitty was also nominated in the category of Best Supporting Actress for her role as Lady Beldon. The other three nominations were for Best Effects - Special Effects (A. Arnold Gillespie, Warren Newcombe and Douglas Shearer ), Best Film Editing (Harold F. Kress) and Best Sound Recording (Douglas Shearer).
The Lost Weekend
Charles R. Jackson's first novel The Lost Weekend published in 1944 tells the story of Don Birnam a talented but alcoholic drinker. Charles R. Jackson became a well known name in the literary world as the novel quickly became a bestseller. Eventually in the very next year the novel was adapted into a movie by the same name. Produced by Charles Brackett and directed by Billy Wilder; the movie went on to win the Academy Awards both in the categories of Best Picture and Best Director at 18th Academy Awards in 1945. Ray Billand who played the protagonist Don Birnam won the Academy Award for Best Actor while Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett also won the Academy Award for their joint effort in the screenplay of the movie. The other three nominations were for Best Cinematography - Black and White (John F. Seitz), Best Music (Miklos Rozsa) and Best Editing (Doane Harrison).
Gentleman's Agreement
Published in 1947, Gentleman's Agreement a novel by Laura Z. Hobson went on to become a New York Time's bestseller in the same year. It narrates the Anti-Semitism that lies in the United States. Philip Green the protagonist of the story is a new writer for a national magazine. He is given the task to write an article on the Anti-Semitism that lies in the United States. He decides to write a first hand experience of the same and the story revolves around the turmoil that his life goes through with this decision. In the movie adaptation of the book Gregory Peck brilliantly portrayed the role of Philip Schuyler Green and for the same he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in the 20th Academy Awards in 1947. However, the movie produced by Darryl F. Zanuck won the Academy Award for Best Picture and Elia Kazan who directed the movie won the Oscar for Best Director. Celeste Holm who played the role of Anne Dettrey, Philip's friend bagged the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Anne Revere who played the role of Mrs. Green, Philip's mother was also nominated in the Best Supporting Actress' Category. For her portrayal of Kathy Lucy, Phil's girlfriend Dorothy McGuire was nominated in the Best Actress Category. Moss Hart who wrote the screenplay and Harmon Jones who was the editor were also nominated in the Best Screenplay and Best Editing Categories.
All the King's Men
Written by Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men bagged Robert Warren the Pultizer prize in 1947. Modern Library ranks it 36th greatest novel of the 20th century. First published in 1946, All the King's Men is a narration by Jack Burden a political reporter who comes to work for the Governer Willie Stark in 1930. The central theme of the novel was that all actions have consequences and you cannot just be a bystander. Produced and directed by Robert Rossen the movie won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1949 and Robert Rossen was also nominated in the category for Best Director. Broderick Crawford who played the role of the governor Willie Stark won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance. Mercedes McCambridge who played the role of Sadie Burke, Stark's campaign assistant who is in love with him, won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. John Ireland's role as Jack Burden bagged him a nomination for Best Supporting Actor in the 22nd Academy Awards. The other two nominations were for Best Writing Screenplay again by Robert Rossen and Best Film Editing for Robert Parrish.
This was the first part of a series of articles on the books that have been made into Academy Award Winning Movies for Best Picture. A simple study of the Academy Award Winning Movies for Best Picture will make you realize that most of these movies were adapted from books. To keep the list concise I have deliberately not added plays, broadway musicals and short stories which were not credited by the movie makers. Further articles will be coming up on the remaining movies too which were adapted from novels and nonfictions eventually becoming in a way Oscar winning novels.


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There's a widespread belief that Manitobans can't access locally grown vegetables in the wintertime, that our extreme climate simply cannot support year-round production. Well that's not entirely true. Although we can't grow in -40 degrees, storage vegetables, which include carrots, potatoes, onions, garlic, beets, cabbage, squash, can in fact stay fresh throughout the winter months. It's just a matter of learning to storage them correctly.
And with the deadline for our own Winter Vegetable Boxes just around the corner, we thought it was timely to provide some tips and tricks on how to properly store your veggies so that you can enjoy your locally grown veggies all winter long!
3 factors that contribute to storage life:
General Rules:
How to store each storage vegetables:
Beets: Store dirty and with their tops. Can be kept refrigerated or else, store in moist sand or sawdust and keep in a cold, dark location.
Carrots: Cut tops off, cover and store in a cool, dark location.
Garlic: Do not wash. Store in a dry, dark location. Stores great in a paper bag.
Onions: Store in a dark, dry location. Keep away from the potatoes.
Potatoes: Do not wash. Pack in paper bags in small batches with a few holes punched into the bags, and covered. Keep in dark spot. Never refrigerate.
Squash: Best kept at room temperatures (not in the cold) for overwintering.
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Order your locally grown, spray-free Winter Vegetable Boxes NOW until Wednesday, December 11. Our boxes come in three sizes: a feast box with or without chicken or ham (perfect for a holiday dinner), small and large.
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For many, December is the season of giving, but that doesn't mean we need to fall into the trap of over consumption and environmental degradation. That's why in this giving guide, we want to highlight some gift ideas that not only bring joy to a loved one, but also benefit the environment, the community, and our local economy.
We may not be able to shop our way out of the climate catastrophe, racial inequality or systemic poverty, but we can choose to take care of what is in front of us. And this giving guide is a good place to start.
1. FFFH's Winter Vegetable Box
Eating local in the winter just got easier! Farm Fresh Food Hub is back with our winter storage vegetables and winter feast boxes. These boxes feature spray-free and locally grown vegetables (and meats) from some of our favourite producers. Orders are open until December 11 and boxes can be picked up at the South Osborne Holiday Market from 11am - 3pm on Sunday December 15 (725 Kylemore Ave). Visit our online store to order yours now.
2. South Osborne Holiday Market
Head over to the South Osborne Holiday Market where you'll find over 30 local food and craft vendors. We have fresh bread, baked goodies, local meats, preserves, pottery, jewelry, and many more specialty goods. Make it a day by sitting down or shopping around with a breakfast sandwich made with local ingredients from our Pop-up Brunch by Clandess Diner. With live music, food and festivities, wouldn't you say this is a better experience than some sterile shopping mall?! Click HERE for the full list of vendors and other event details.
3. LITE Holiday Boxes
Give the gift that keeps on giving by purchasing a LITE curated seasonal gift boxes of local products made by social enterprises, non-profits, or people held back by social or economic circumstances. It's filled to the brim with all things LOCAL including Pottery by Art Beats Studio, Candles by the North End Women's Resource Centre, Bath Soaks by the Spence Neighborhood Association and more. LITE holiday boxes will be available for purchase at the South Osborne Holiday Market. Order in advance or learn more HERE.
4. Hearts & Roots' Victory Gardens
Do you have someone special who is passionate or curious about growing their own food? Check out Hearts & Roots' Victory Gardens that include organic plants and an organic growing workshop so that your loved one can feel confident growing organic vegetables at home. Gardens come in three sizes with an option to add additional plants. Visit their website to place your order. They also have a pretty cool gift guide that you should check out!
5. South Osborne Farmers' Market Gift Cards
With the days getting shorter and much more colder, we all need a reminder that the warm sun will come again. Why not give the ultimate gift to your summer loving friend by purchasing a South Osborne Farmers' Market gift card? With over 40 food & crafts vendors every Wednesday evening throughout the summer, there's something for everyone. And did we mention there's beer & cider on tap, a sitting area, kid's crafts and live music? Click here to learn more.
6. Farmers' Market Coupon Program
Let's be real -- there's many people in our community who can't access the fresh, healthy local food that we're always raving about. In the true spirit of giving, think about donating to the Manitoba Farmers' Market Coupon Program. Inspired by a successful program in B.C., this initiative aims to provide folks who frequently experience food insecurity with coupons that they can redeem for whole foods at participating farmers' markets. Plus your donation will also go towards supporting local producers and our social economy as a whole. It's a win-win. Donate HERE.
7. Camp Morning Star
Indigenous communities have and continue to be the worst impacted by climate change and environmental degradation, yet are also the ones putting their bodies on the line to protect the environment for all of us. Consider donating to Camp Morning Star that is opposing the proposed Wanipigow Silica Sand Extraction project in the traditional territory of Hollow Water First Nation, Treaty 1. This open pit quarry risks impacting the health of local residents, wildlife, and the land. All donations help support the daily maintenance of the camp and keeps the sacred fire burning. To learn more, visit their website. Click HERE for their donation page.
Interviewed & edited by Hannah Muhajarine
Photos by Geralyn Wichers, Manitoba Co-operator
On September 25, the South Osborne Farmers' Market hosted an Eat, Think, Vote (ETV) event as part of a campaign of Food Secure Canada that gathers community members across the country to speak with federal candidates about food issues in their community ahead of the upcoming election.
The South Osborne Farmers' Market has ended, but the federal election is well underway! On our last market of the season, we invited candidates from the riding of Winnipeg South Centre to our own ETV event at the market to share their parties' platforms on food and agriculture.
Food is not usually talked about as an election issue, but it touches on so many things--from agricultural and trade policy, to climate change and healthcare. That's why it's crucial to know what policies and proposals candidates and their parties have to help us build a food system that is sustainable, equitable, and accessible for all.
All candidates were invited to attend. Jim Carr (the Liberal incumbent), Elizabeth Shearer (NDP), James Beddome (Green Party), and Linda Marynuk (Christian Heritage) all showed up to chat with market goers, while Joyce Bateman (Conservative) and Jane MacDiarmid (PPC) declined.
We managed to nab Elizabeth, James, and Linda for a few minutes each. Unfortunately, Jim did not have time to talk. Here's what we found out! (Please note that with the candidates' permission, answers have been condensed and edited for brevity and clarity).
1. What do you think are some of the most important food issues in your riding, Winnipeg, and Manitoba?
JB, Greens: Firstly, I think there's the issue of food security, which really is about inequality and the growing gap between the rich and the poor. The Greens have a policy for a guaranteed liveable income that would end poverty in this country.
We also need more localized food production by connecting our producers with our consumers. It's worth noting that the average plate of food for a Canadian consumer travels fifteen hundred kilometres— that leaves us with a very food insecure system. In an era where we're facing climate change, we could see massive shocks to our global supply chains that we rely on an export-oriented agriculture. In a place where we should have a lot of abundance and plenty, we wouldn't even be able to feed ourselves.
But beyond that, our current model of agriculture is very unsustainable which is why we'd like to see a push towards regenerative agriculture.
LM, Christian Heritage: Well there are a lot of food issues…a lot of people live on minimum wage. There's also a lot of young people that have no salaries and they have a lot of financial constraints.
ES, NDP: We obviously know that food is at the heart of Canadians. But over 40 million Canadians experience food insecurity all across Canada, and particularly in the North.
Here in Winnipeg South Centre, a lot of the people that I've talked to wish that local healthy food could be more affordable. They love that the South Osborne Farmers Market exists, but they've expressed to me that they can only really afford to buy local once a week. We really need to have local food made more available, but also more affordable. It's hard enough to adhere to the Canada Food Guide for a Healthy Diet, let alone buy locally on top of that.
2. In your plans to tackle food insecurity, is local food a priority? If so, how would you help to bridge the gap between consumers, especially those food insecure, and local food providers?
JB, Greens: Firstly, we need to start with the increasing greater knowledge of where people's food comes from. I was lucky enough to be a farm kid myself, but for many people they may not have that connection.
I also think we need to be supporting more community and urban gardens. I mentioned the guaranteed liveable income, but there's other ways to help with food insecurity such as by making it accessible for everyone to grow their own food and supporting community groups like Sustainable South Osborne and Fruit Share.
There are also many regulations that limit how large producers can be, how they have to sell it, and how it has to be directly marketed. Our regulatory scheme needs to be opened up to allow more people to grow their own food and market it.
Transportation and marketing is also where the government has to put a lot more of our focus. We need to look at programs that are going to support farmers in connecting with consumers.
LM, Christian Heritage: Yes, it's very important. The cost of not addressing food insecurity is very high. I'd say make food more affordable for people. A lot of the stores, when there's a date on food, could give it to food banks instead of throwing it away. Because for a lot of people, food banks are their last resort.
ES, NDP: I know that there has been a recent shift towards growing more diverse crops in Manitoba such as pulses, soy, hemp—I think we need to continue on that route. We need to be creating more protein-rich sources of food that we can develop and manufacture here in Canada and sell locally.
Our party supports an increase in research and development on new products that can meet the needs of Canadians to provide a more locally-sourced food system.
And also working with farmers, working with people that know the land more than anyone else. We definitely want to connect farmers to more markets in urban centres, but also with each other, even more so, to increase innovation and share best practices.
3. "The demographic that experiences the highest level of food insecurity are First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people. This is a result of colonial practices that have led to ongoing challenges that many Indigenous peoples continue to face" (Food Secure Canada , 2019). Given this reality, how would you work to improve not only food insecurity among Indigenous communities, but also increase their sovereignty over their own Indigenous food system?
JB, Greens: The first thing to highlight is to recognize our colonial past. I myself am part of the settler population. It starts with recognizing that we really are, bluntly put, on stolen land.
The Green Party is in favour of getting rid of the Indian Act and giving First Nations more land to have underneath their own management and control. We'd work with First Nations leadership over a period of ten years to make that a reality.
That will provide more spaces for people to carry out their traditional rights to hunt, trap, fish, gather. It would also create more economic opportunities related to tourism and to food production.
LM, Christian Heritage: I am First Nations, so I have a lot of experience working with people in First Nations communities. I work in the school system, where I have to travel to schools across Manitoba. And when I go up there, I can't always bring food with me on the plane because of freight charges. And then when you do go up there, a jug of milk is like eight dollars. They need better access to roads. A lot of the communities don't have roads so you either have to travel by plane or on winter roads and so it's very expensive to transport food.
They also need more money for community initiatives such as breakfast programs and local gardening.
And then to revitalize traditional knowledge among young people because there's a lot of Elders in the community that could easily talk to and teach them.
ES, NDP: It's something like 67% of communities in Northern Manitoba are food insecure. Coming from a human rights lens, that's unacceptable. There has to be an increase in investment in transporting healthy food options for those people that are living in harder to reach areas, but on top of that, you need to invest in more sustainable ways of producing food in those communities. I would want to work in consultation with First Nations communities. I would love to learn more about their solutions to fighting this problem, and connecting them to the research and skills needed to increase the overall food sovereignty for their communities.
4. How would you help small to medium-scale farmers in their efforts to mitigate the impacts of climate change?
JB, Greens: In Manitoba, agriculture is our largest source of emissions which is contributing to the climate emergency that we are facing. This is because we're very reliant on synthetic fertilizer that release a lot of greenhouse gas emissions both in the way it is produced and used. At the same time, there is a lot of opportunity to reverse this trend by doing farming in the right way. There are about 1.7 megatonnes of carbon per year we could sequester in the soil through regenerative agriculture practices.
We need more support for small and medium-sized farmers. A smaller, localized, more niche market could actually deliver more economic revenue than a larger overproduction model. Often, we're farming marginal lands that depend heavily on using a ton of pesticides and fertilizers, and it's not even that economical to farm. There are ways of reclaiming or restoring marginal lands and wetlands that have the potential to become carbon sinks and create a steady economic benefit for farmers.
LM, Christian Heritage: To me, addressing climate change is a collaborative effort that requires scientific knowledge but there's also other ways of finding out about the weather and effects of climate change. We need both.
ES, NDP: We definitely need to invest in small farms. We have to make sure that they're ready to respond to climate change and that there's infrastructure and transportation available so they can get their products to market.
One of the things we often take for granted in urban areas, that a lot of rural areas don't have, is access to high speed internet, and affordable phone connections. If more rural farmers or agricultural producers were able to access more steady, reliable services like that, it could help them connect to each other and create direct market systems to support their work, and make a lot of their production more efficient.
The NDP supports decreasing food waste as well. Having more efficient systems to get food to table helps alleviate the food waste coming from that system.
Learn more about our ETV event and these candidates positions on food issues: https://www.manitobacooperator.ca/news-opinion/news/eat-think-vote/?fbclid=IwAR2mpb-uAes7zybT3hZECGGledBDz_xvDFKxlUfSCsIA9zecS7JJMqzyg2g
Or how the main political parties compare on other top election issues: https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/federal/2019/party-platforms/
For more voter information, including advance polling, voter registration and where to vote, visit: https://www.elections.ca/home.aspx
Election Day is October 21, 2019.
Feeding Diaspora
Chew on This! #7, September 18, 2019
Speaker: Christina Hajjar
Written by Anna Sigrithur
Chew on This! is a bi-weekly mini speaker series hosted at the South Osborne Farmers' Market that aims to bring market-goers and local food champions together with the idea that a market should be a meeting place and a place of critical ideas as well as commerce.
For our final speaker event of the 2019 season, we welcomed Christina Hajjar to come speak to our market audience about food, identity and diaspora. Christina is a queer, femme first-generation Lebanese-Canadian artist, writer and organizer whose name you might have heard in the media as one of the voices of the groundswell 'Not My Stella's' campaign in late 2018-- one that demanded an end to harmful labour practices at the Winnipeg restaurant chain. But for Chew on This!, Christina wanted to speak about something that generates more interesting and ongoing valences for her work-- that is, her own process of grappling with power, relationality and identity through food.
Christina has many practices through which she addresses these ideas, including visual arts, performance work and writing a column in The Uniter called "Feeding Diaspora". In the column, she writes critically and candidly about her own personal experiences as a Lebanese-Canadian and how food is one of the only things tying her to a homeland she has never seen-- and how those ties are often complicated:
"I used to think that to know home was to learn my mother's hands - her repertoire of creation forever connected to homeland. While I still believe that learning how to make Lebanese food from my mom is a reclamation, I know there is an irreconcilable distance between her and I, here and there." -- Feeding Diaspora, The Uniter, October 4, 2018
Food and cooking, Christina explains, are a great source of pleasure and connection for people living in a diaspora, and can be a way to address history and family trauma. Recipes might turn into love letters, time machines, and channels through which to speak to one's loved ones. But food can also be a reminder of pain: she discusses the common anxiety of feeling like a 'failure' if you do not feel adequately connected to your culture or homeland. But connecting can be tough: many people in diasporic communities are people of colour who face oppression and racism in their new homes, which complicates the politics of food in a new way-- especially when foods of their homeland are consumed by outsiders.
"Both food and the ways we consume, create, and interpret it can be political."
Christina then explained the concept of "eating the other", an idea explored by decolonial and feminist theorists. It says that colonization is an ongoing and extractive process, and that by consuming the cultural and other resources of a place or people (like food), a colonial body is in essence, "eating" the colonized body. It also holds the tension that due to colonial histories, white and colonizing people tend to conflate consuming the foods of a colonized people with an acceptance of them-- without examining the ongoing structural and overt racism and discrimination implicated in these relationships. She gave the example of Israelis claiming ownership over Palestinian foods-- a common occurrence in the occupation in Palestine today.
"Eating the other" is also at play in the industry of culinary cultural appropriation; white chefs and restauranteurs travel abroad, learn to cook a cuisine, and bring it back to profit off of-- all while people of that diaspora are often structurally disadvantaged to be able to do the same thing. Think about the "street food" craze in trendy restaurants over the past several years-- these are almost exclusively the foods of the global south. For white people, Christina says, eating the other can be a signal of worldliness, of sophistication-- while for diasporic communities, the pressure is often on assimilation.
So, Christina as asks in her column, "how [can] chefs and artists use food and social engagement to autonomously tell their stories, affirm their communities and work towards liberation?" She suggests that reclaiming food as a nurturing and pleasure-filled thing is one way to ensure an active resistance: food is care, and for people in diaspora who face daily oppression, one of the best ways to "feed diaspora" is to take care of one another.
"My friend making me dinner or sharing their cupcakes, my partner asking me what I want to eat or my mom asking me if she can drop something off are all transformative forms of community care…. When loved ones show up in this way, it decentres the individualistic mentality of surviving and thriving." -- Feeding Diaspora, The Uniter, September 19, 2019.
Feeding Diaspora column: http://uniter.ca/author/christina-hajjar
Mizna, Prose Poetry and Art Exploring Arab America:
The Fig Tree zine: https://maamoulpress.com/The-Fig-Tree-by-Leila-Abdelrazaq
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Kale and Celeriac Gratin
This hearty fall dish makes use of the oft-overlooked, but very tasty, celery root. This gnarled, gnarly vegetable hosts subtle nutty and celery flavours and a luscious, creamy texture. Roasting brings out its very best features and pairs beautifully here with bitter kale and salty cheese.
Featuring veggies from Heart Acres Farm
Cook the leeks and kale in the butter until softened, about 5 minutes. Set aside to cool.
Layer the slices of potato and celery root in a greased casserole dish, scattering with pieces of the kale and leeks. Repeat in a few layers.
Mix together the cream, salt, pepper, garlic, and herbs and pour over the casserole dish. Sprinkle with the parmesan cheese. Cover with foil and bake at 375 for 1 hour, then remove foil and bake for another 30 minutes, until very soft and cheese is starting to brown. Serve hot.
You can find many of these ingredients at the South Osborne Farmers' Market, open every Wednesday, 4-8pm until September 25. Located at the Lord Roberts Community Centre (725 Kylemore Ave).
Thank you to Robyn Salguero for all the fall inspired recipes this September. You can continue to follow Robyn 's creative food adventures at @allegra.eats.the.world.
Organizing for Food Sovereignty
Chew on This! #6, September 4, 2019
Speaker: Jeanette Sivilay
Written by Anna Sigrithur
Chew on This! is a bi-weekly mini speaker series hosted at the South Osborne Farmers' Market that aims to bring market-goers and local food champions together with the idea that a market should be a meeting place and a place of critical ideas as well as commerce.
Last week at Chew on This!, we were lucky to be joined by farmer, organizer and academic Jeanette Sivilay to speak to us about the dynamics in the Manitoba food system between players in the small farms community and policy makers that are shaping how we define food sovereignty in the Province. Jeanette began by sharing some of the background that inspired her to do the work she is doing. She grew up gardening with her parents in southeastern Manitoba and began critically engaging with food systems in university. Today she is an academic-- just having finished her Masters at University of Manitoba where she studied these food system dynamics-- and currently coordinates a provincial network of small scale food providers and local food enthusiasts interested in engaging in critical conversations about the food system.
So what is food sovereignty? Most people have probably heard the phrase 'food security' used by politicians and community food activists alike; it is the idea that a community has access to enough nutritionally adequate food to live on. Food sovereignty takes that idea one step further and says that a community should have the rights and the power to participate in and create their food system from the grassroots to the policy level. As the global peasant rights organization, Via Campesina puts it:
"Food Sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems." (Source: Food Secure Canada)
So what does this mean for small farmers in Manitoba? Jeanette described an experience early in her academic career that caused her to realize that, especially on the policy level, food sovereignty in the province was not robust. In 2013, a small scale farm that raised pastured pigs and made award-winning artisanal charcuterie products was raided and all their stock destroyed-- tens of thousands of dollars and countless months of work-- by provincial government health regulators. Although their products were previously approved through the provincial health department, a new health inspector had re-interpreted the existing food safety guidelines and determined the farmers were in breach of compliance. Shortly thereafter, two other small farms were shut down in a similar way. Small farmers around the province became scared: what were they to expect when the existing food policies were so vague and unspecific to their scale of production that their livelihoods could be made or broken by a switch in health inspector?
In Manitoba, this proved to be a pinnacle moment of tensions between the emerging network of small farmers and government regulators. Jeanette pointed out two things that frames this tension: first, that existing agricultural and food safety policies in the province were written for large scale, industrial operations. And second, that she believed the government at the time saw the small farms as a temporary nuisance, one that could be ignored and let fade away, rather than to invest time and money in changing these regulations. What regulators were not prepared for was for the farmers to fight back-- and fight back they did! Those affected by the charcuterie raid and their allies formed a group called The Real Manitoba Food Fight, which organized to push for policy reforms and clarifications that accommodated smaller scale, less industrialized operations. Groups like the Harvest Moon Local Food Initiative who were already pushing for small scale agricultural revitalization gained traction, and other groups formed, like Small Farms Manitoba (now known as Direct Farm Manitoba) which sought to connect consumers directly with small scale farmers via farm-gate style transactions and therefore by-pass prohibitive regulatory and health policies. Clearly a push for food sovereignty was brewing.
But Jeanette points out that although this was a big moment for the idea of food sovereignty-- and indeed subsequently, some policies have changed-- what she learned in her research is that one of the biggest hurdles in creating lasting food sovereignty is the tendency for local food to get swept into the neoliberal marketplace as luxury, niche products. It's a tough go, she says, because of course, having regulations that are reasonable for small scale producers is a part of building food sovereignty. And under the current system, where larger scale farms are subsidized and protected in ways small scale farms are not, being a small farmer has associated costs and risks that cause prices to be higher. Under the current (unsupportive) structures, there is no way for small scale farms to charge less than they do. But this is a systems failure. As an entire functioning web of producers, intermediaries, and consumers -- as a community -- how do we build true food sovereignty, rather than simply lobby for our own individual interests?
Jeanette says that she sees some possibilities: the growth of farmer's markets in the province is a positive step for making more fresh food accessible to more people, and groups like Direct Farm Manitoba are working concertedly for more policy changes to benefit small-scale agriculture. Some community-scale groups like the Good Food Club in West Broadway have been subsidizing local organic food for low income community for years. And the Winnipeg Food Council is trying to make a central plan for food in the city, and tackle some issues like food apartheid and lack of access to healthy foods. But more radical solutions-- such as transforming the very structures that benefit large scale agriculture and permit unequal access to food-- are going to take a diversity of ongoing approaches from a systems perspective. Jeanette says she's hopeful, but that it's not going to happen by itself, and it's definitely not going to happen if we don't work together.
The Real Manitoba Food Fight: http://realmanitobafoodfight.ca/
Direct Farm Manitoba: http://directfarmmanitoba.ca/
Winnipeg Food Council: https://winnipeg.ca/ppd/PublicEngagement/WinnipegFoodPolicyCouncil/default.stm
Food Secure Canada: https://foodsecurecanada.org/who-we-are/what-food-sovereignty
Become a Member of Farm Fresh Food Hub! Supporting us is supporting systems change in local food in Manitoba: http://www.farmfreshfoodhub.ca/
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This hearty vegetarian stew is filled with a lovely mixture of textures and flavours. Sweet squash and carrots contrast beautifully with bitter parsnips in a warm spice blend that will fill your home with a beguiling aroma.
Featuring veggies from Natural Collective.
For the spice blend, mix all the spices together until combined and set aside.
In a large dutch oven or deep pan, heat oil over medium heat. Add onions, garlic, ginger, and jalapeno and cook for about five minutes, stirring occasionally, until onions are starting to soften and become translucent. Add carrots, parsnips, and squash and cook for an additional 5-7 minutes, stirring, until softening. Stir in tomato paste and spice blend and toss to coat.
Add the chickpeas, lemon zest, and broth or water, and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low and partially cover the pot. Simmer for about 1 hour, stirring occasionally, until vegetables are very tender and chickpeas have soaked up the flavours of the stew.
Serve with couscous, brown rice, or quinoa to soak up the splendid sauce.
You can find many of these ingredients at the South Osborne Farmers' Market, open every Wednesday, 4-8pm until September 25. Located at the Lord Roberts Community Centre (725 Kylemore Ave).
And stay tune for more fall recipes by Robyn or @allegra.eats.the.world.
Galette of Beets & Greens
We have another festive recipe by market goer, Robyn Salguero, who found a lovely way to use up an excess of greens and herbs from the summer bounty. The galette is easy to assemble and looks (and tastes!) beautiful.
Featuring veggies from Natural Collective.
Boil the beets in lightly salted water until softened, about 30 minutes. Drain and set aside. When cool, peel the beets and chop into small pieces (1/4-1/2").
Meanwhile, make the crust. Mix the flour, salt, and sugar in a bowl until combined. Add the butter and mix in with a pastry cutter or your fingertips until you have a crumbly mixture, with a few larger chunks of bitter throughout. Dribble in the water and vinegar and mix together with a fork until just coming together into a rough, shaggy dough, being careful not to over mix. Divide the mixture into two and pat each piece into a flat disc about 4" round. Cover and let chill for at least 30 minutes or overnight.
Heat a large shallow pan over medium-low heat, then add the oil. Add in the onions and leeks and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened and wilted, about 10-15 minutes. Add the garlic and heat until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add in the stalks of the swiss chard and beets and cook for about 10 minutes, until soft. Add in the chard & beet leaves and cook until wilted and starting to cook down, about 3 minutes, then add the spinach. Cook the mixture for an additional 5-6 minutes, until soft and tender. Remove from the heat.
Season to taste with salt, pepper, and red pepper flakes, than stir in the herbs, green onions, lemon juice, and lemon zest. Allow to cool. When cool, stir in the eggs, cheese, and beets.
Heat oven to 375. Lightly flour work surface, and with a rolling pin, flatten a disc of dough out to a 12" rough circle. Transfer to a piece of parchment. Heap half the filling into the centre of the dough and spread out, leaving a 2" border around the edges. Carefully enclose the dough around the filling, folding and pleating as you work, so that the dough is holding the greens in but the centre is still exposed. Repeat with the remaining galette.
Bake for 25-30 minutes, until the crust is golden brown and the filling is bubbling and cooked throughout. Serve hot, warm, or at room temperature.
You can find many of these ingredients at the South Osborne Farmers' Market, open every Wednesday, 4-8pm until September 25. Located at the Lord Roberts Community Centre (725 Kylemore Ave).
And stay tune for more fall recipes by Robyn or @allegra.eats.the.world.
Try out this new recipe by our favourite market goer, Robyn Salguero, who was inspired by the abundance of veggies this autumn season. These gorgeous little triangular pies contain a wonderful autumnal combination of roasted squash, fennel and garlic with a faint aroma of basil. Make sure you use a pumpkin with less moisture so the dough doesn't get soggy. Kuri or buttercup squash is very good here.
Shout out to Heart Acre Farms for the fennel and basil, Natural Collective for the kuri squash, and feta cheese from Vegan Fromagerie.
For the dough: place the flour and salt in a large mixing bowl. Dissolve the yeast with the water, allow to froth for a minute or so, then add the oil and mix well. Pour the water into the flour mix a bit at a time, stirring to combine. When all the water is added, transfer to a lightly floured surface and knead well. If the dough is still sticky, add some extra flour, or add a bit more water if a bit crumbly. Knead for about 5 minutes, until soft, smooth, and elastic and no longer tacky. Cover with plastic and set aside.
Meanwhile, heat the oven to 425 degrees. Peel and remove the seeds from the squash and cut into rough 2" chunks. Trim the fennel bulb of the fronds (reserve for another use), slice in half, and cut into wedges. Toss the squash and fennel with the garlic paste and olive oil. Place on a baking sheet for about 25 minutes, or until soft. Remove and allow to cool slightly, the coarsely mash with a fork so you still have a bit of chunky texture. When completely cool, gently stir in the feta, herbs, and pumpkinseeds.
Divide the dough into 18 even balls. On a lightly floured surface, roll each ball into a rough circle about 3" in diameter. Place 2 scant tbsps of filling in the center of the dough and spread and shape it into a rough triangle. Moisten the edge of the dough with a bit of water, then pinch the dough shut in the shape of the triangle, beginning by pinching the edges at three equidistant points (12, 4, & 8 o'clock) and continuing pinching along the pastry, ending with all three points meeting evenly in the middle. Seal well. Repeat with the remaining pies
Place the triangles on a baking tray lined with parchment paper, and bake for about 10-15 minutes, until the dough has become light golden brown but is not completely crisp. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Get many of these ingredients and much more at the South Osborne Farmers' Market, open every Wednesday, 4-8pm until September 25. Located at the Lord Roberts Community Centre (725 Kylemore Ave).
And stay tune for more festive recipes by Robyn or @allegra.eats.the.world.
Chew on This! #5 August 21, 2019
Speaker: Kenton Lobe of Canadian Mennonite University
Written by Anna Sigrithur
Chew on This! is a bi-weekly mini speaker series hosted at the South Osborne Farmers' Market that aims to bring market-goers and local food champions together with the idea that a market should be a meeting place and a place of critical ideas as well as commerce.
Last week at Chew on This! we welcomed Kenton Lobe, a farmer, a seed saver, and a professor of International Development and Environmental Studies at the Canadian Mennonite University (CMU). Kenton began his talk by asking the audience whether we were aware of the fact that the land we were sitting on (at the Lord Roberts Community Centre in South Osborne, Winnipeg) had once been divided into river lots along the Red River occupied and cultivated by Métis farmers at the time of the city's birth. Most of us did not-- nor could we imagine quite what those people might have been growing-- but we knew it was not the genetically modified seeds of conventional agriculture today. In asking this question, Kenton implored us to consider the history of the human relationship with seeds and plants that has extended as far as 10,000 years and is ongoing. It's a relationship many of us don't think that much about, but one that merits rekindling.
Much of this relationship between people and seed has been damaged, disconnected and exploited in recent decades. Says Kenton, our agricultural biodiversity is in crisis: 75% of agricultural species have been lost over the past 100 years, and at the moment, 60-70% of the world's seed supply is controlled by four multinational corporations whose primary interest is profit for their shareholders. For the first time in the classes he teaches, he is assigning readings on 'ecological grief', the phenomenon of feeling profound despair at the state of the climate and our disconnection with natural systems and other species. But within all of this is a window of hope: seeds can provide a powerful physical tool and metaphor for social and ecological change. Just think about it, he says: a towering, 2000 year old sequoia tree grew from a seed that weighed 1/16th of a gram. That's powerful. Saving seed is a way and place where we can begin to regain and reclaim our relationships to other species.
Doing so is the practice of gaining what Kenton calls 'ecological literacy'. Ecological literacy is just what it sounds like: the knowledge about natural systems that allows us to 'read' their many variables, and to make educated guesses on how best to interact with them. When he first started saving seeds, he started with squash and quickly realized that to do so meant that he had to understand much more than just seeds; he had to learn how the flowers are pollinated and what the bees, birds, the wind and the humans were doing within a several kilometer radius of the squash patch! He realized that seed saving required learning the whole natural system that surrounded and supported that seed. And when it came to the moment for his direct influence, he had to choose which squash to save and let reproduce another year, and which to eat or compost-- a process called 'roguing'. It was the beginning of a long relationship that is now bearing its own fruits; Kenton now often teaches squash pollinating workshops at CMU in the summer times.
Through his work at CMU, Kenton got to know other seed savers who have influenced this relationship to seeds, and he cites one person in particular named Caroline Chartrand, who calls herself 'the landless Métis seed saver'. Caroline worked tirelessly to research any records of seeds from the Red River Valley to determine what her Métis ancestors would have cultivated and eaten-- on possibly the very same river lots we were gathered on the day of Kenton's talk. Caroline works to grow out these seeds where and when she can find them, and in doing so, is connecting with her ancestors. Yes, her ancestors who grew the seeds-- but also, from an Indigenous perspective, seeds themselves are living ancestors. Regaining a relationship with them is a way of healing from on-going colonial violence, as well as a celebration of connection. Kenton recalled one of the seminal (har har!) moments in which he came to understand this. He was visiting the White Earth reservation in Minnesota and spending time with the renowned elder/activist Winona Laduke when someone came and brought some seeds to her-- seeds that they had brought over the border in a bag of "Spitz". When she saw them, Winona exclaimed with joy, "Oh, you've brought my grandchildren home!" Kenton said he was taken aback by this at first, but her genuine appreciation and warmth towards these seeds stuck with him: it challenged his european, settler farmer view on what a seed was.
This is an important distinction in the face of the state of seeds internationally, with the aforementioned multinational corporations who control seed through patenting and intellectual property laws, and genetic manipulation to ensure that seeds from GM crops cannot be saved. Though this market share is still a global minority-- most of the food grown and eaten in the world today still comes from small-scale operations using non-GM seeds-- its implications about the right to control and patent life are significant. From Kenton, and many other seed savers' perspectives, there is a philosophical, cultural and justice-based logic that seed should not be owned or controlled by the few. It is a living entity, a resource-- and for many an ancestor-- that we all have a right to engage with.
And so, Kenton and other seed savers find satisfaction in working the land in a way that honours these relationships, and teaches in a way that he hopes he can inspire students and other farmers and gardeners to gain ecological literacy. It's one of the things we can do in the face of shrinking agricultural biodiversity and seed monopolies-- to literally work against these forces. For many years, Kenton and colleagues have organized the "Seedy Saturday" event at CMU, where seed savers from all over Winnipeg and Manitoba can come to freely swap or give away their seeds. He teaches about seed saving and seed banking (we'll give some information about local seed banks and libraries below), and encourages as many people to grow out and save seed as possible: the more something is grown out by attentive seed savers, the more adaptability we will see in our crops-- something we'll need in the times ahead.
The Osborne Seed Library Project:
Seedy Saturday:
Book: The Organic Seed Grower by John Navazio
Chew on This! takes place every other Wednesday from 7-7:30pm at the South Osborne Farmers' Market (725 Kylemore Ave). Childminding is available through our kids craft table.
Our next Chew on This! will be this coming Wednesday, September 4, and will feature Jeanette Sivilay, a former urban farmer and food sovereignty researcher giving a talk on "Organizing for Food Sovereignty: small scale farmers and the local food movement in Manitoba."
**Note: The time of Chew on This! has changed! The event will be from 7:00- 7:30pm instead of 5:30-6pm. The location will remain the same.**
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In the Middle East Tinat field, the use of the Revolution RSS saved the company's client $350,000 and a week of drill time by eliminating the need for drill pipe-conveyed wireline tough-logging-condition (TLC) operations.
Tasked with drilling a 5-in. horizontal section out of a 7-in. cement float and shoe to reach total depth in one run, Weatherford engineers recommended the penta-combo 4¾-in. LWD tool string featuring the SpectralWave azimuthal gamma ray and CrossWave azimuthal sonic tools. These services were used for data on formation porosity and for advanced elemental and petrophysical analysis of the reservoir. First, a full torque-and-drag hydraulic analysis was performed in order to design a BHA to eliminate TLC and optimize the rate of penetration (ROP). Then the LWD string was designed to acquire all the reservoir and geosteering data requested by the operator.
The entire 1,456-ft (444-m) lateral section was drilled to a 17,059-ft (5,200-m) TD in a single run, while averaging 41 ft-12 m/hr ROP at approximately 250°F (121.1°C). The DownLink Commander was used for rapid, two-way communication with the BHA and the Revolution RSS for higher ROP and a smoother borehole.
|The PowerDrive ICE RSS is a push-the-bit system presently available in 6.75-in. diameter. The TeleScope ICE system is available in 6.75-in. and 4.75-in. sizes. (Courtesy Schlumberger)
To tackle the growing number of high-pressure/high-temperature (HP/HT) wells, Schlumberger has developed an entire new tool system. Its name is ICE, ultra-high-temperature drilling services. ICE stands for Integrated Ceramic Electronics. This name is assigned to the new PowerDrive ICE RSS and the Telescope ICE high-speed telemetry service, but there is nothing cool about its record-breaking temperature capability. The system's operating temperature has been certified to 392°F (200°C) at pressures of 30,000 psi (207 bar) for 2,000 hours without failure.
Tested in the GoM and the Gulf of Thailand, where some of the hottest wells on the planet exist, the tool achieved its chief design criteria – uninterrupted drilling processes and provision of all required services. Testing included thermal shock cycling over a range of -72°F (-40°C) through 392°F (200°C). ICE electronic components use reliable ultra-high temperature multichip modules which include a ceramic substrate. The PowerDrive ICE dynamic elastomeric seals have been completely replaced by metal-to-metal ones.
The TeleScope ICE provides azimuthal gamma ray for steering, direction and inclination sensors, four-axis vibration, pressure, and temperature with two-way mud-pulse telemetry. Both the MWD and RSS tools are turbine powered and contain no batteries. The RSS tool operates up to 350 rpm for maximum ROP. The temperature rating applies to the system itself, not the formation temperature; thus it can successfully negotiate formations hotter than its rated temperature.
On its debut in Mexico, the PowerDrive ICE RSS saved nine days of rig time, conservatively valued at $1.35 million. This achievement was enhanced by a 16% ROP improvement drilling the well's 8½-in. tangent section over ROPs experienced in offset wells. The borehole trajectory steered from 77° to 57° azimuth to reach the 3D target set by PEMEX. Bottomhole conditions exceeded 329°F (165°C) and pressures greater than 15,000 psi (1,034 bar).
Originally, the operator experienced issues maintaining trajectory with a packed BHA. The pipe was tripped and the PowerDrive ICE RSS was deployed to recover the tangent section and withstand the high formation temperatures.
In Thailand, PTTEP drills more than 50 gas wells per year with BHT's greater than 200°C. Using the TeleScope ICE service, the operator was able to drill and steer successfully to target depth with measured formation temperatures of 399°F (204°C). A 13% rig time saving was achieved.


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SYNC® 3 Navigation: Advanced Features | Ford How-To | Ford
Your SYNC 3 navigation system
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But there may be a few things you're still
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To cancel a route that you've
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It feels like a mixed and meaty kind of news month, with the kind of vibrant diversity that we adventurous winelovers espouse. The big release for the month – along with Mount Mary's JWDM – is Nick Farr's 2017 Sangreal and Farrside Pinot Noir alongside his whites from 2018. It won't surprise you to hear that it's another affirmation of the way this family is still streaking ahead of the pack, finding ever more precise detail and harmony in the wines. Elsewhere in Pinot-land, there are vintage rolls for fellow Victorians Shadowfax, Punt Road and Onannon. The rest of the domestic news is dominated by stellar reviews, spanning the likes of Frankland Estate, Glaetzer, S.C. Pannell and Charteris.
The import side of things comes with a distinct French accent this month, with 2018 Chablis and its Petit brother arriving from Louis Michel, along with a full suite of organic Viré-Clessé wines from the exceptional old-vine holdings of André Bonhomme. From the Loire, the new vintage of Frédéric Mabileau's Chenin des Rouillères from Anjou has landed to rejoin the Rouillères Cabernet Franc from Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil and Racines Cabernet Franc from Bourgueil. There's even a French link to our Californian shipment, as the sublime Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from Hyde de Villaine hits these shores. These are the wines grown on on the vineyard of the Hyde family in Carneros in partnership with viticulturist Larry Hyde's brother-in-law Aubert de Villaine of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. And heading on a more Teutonic slant, we have a couple of new-vintage Grüner Veltiners bursting on the scene, while Johannes Hasselbach's Gunderloch wines are basking in the glow of rave reviews from Wine Spectator.
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Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's Socialists won Spain's national election on Sunday but large gains by the upstart far-right Vox party appear certain to widen the political deadlock in the European Union's fifth-largest economy.
Spain's acting prime minister, Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez, faced the prospect of hard bargaining to form a government on Monday after his gamble on holding Spain's second election this year resulted in no clear victor but a surge for the far right.
The outcome could mean there will be no immediate end to the stalemate between forces on the right and the left in Spain, suggesting the country could go many more weeks or even months without a new government.
Spain had, till now and because of its history, been considered immune to the populist rise of the far right in Europe but the clear victor has been the far right VOX which has gained 28 seats, giving it 52.
"I call on all political parties to work on unblocking the political situation in Spain".
"We call upon all the political parties, except for those that work against coexistence and foster hatred."
The far-right Vox party was on track to take third place with 52 seats, more than doubling its seats in parliament since the last general election in April. Three Catalan separatist parties won a combined 23 seats, one more than in April. Its increase in the number of votes across Spain was smaller, however, rising by a third.
The figures pointed to a legislative stalemate with neither the left nor right having a majority.
Some 37 million people were eligible to cast their votes in the latest election.
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The Socialists would prefer to govern in a minority, which would only be possible if the PP abstained in a parliamentary confidence vote - but with the strengthening of the right, the PP was unlikely to agree. The bigger question would be who its allies could be and how long such a government could last.
Although Vox has now established itself as a major right-wing force in Spanish politics, critics note that its agenda remains rather vague.
The outcome will require party leaders to be creative, negotiate seriously this time and, for some, swallow their pride, after higher abstention rates on Sunday showed that voters are exhausted of being called repeatedly to the ballot box. But in the future ...
"There are things about Vox that I don't like, but if they can bring some order to things like migration, health and the autonomous regions, that would be good", says 54-year-old Lidia Pascual, who runs a rural bed-and-breakfast.
That will make Vox the third leading party in the Congress of Deputies, giving it much more leverage in forming a government and crafting legislation.
"It will be practically impossible to form a government in Spain. harder than in the past", forecast Joan Botella, a political scientist at Barcelona's Autonomous University (AUB).
The new parliament, which will hold its inaugural session in early December, will include 16 parties, including several more regional ones and the anti-capitalist, pro-Catalan independence CUP party.
In fact, Sanchez has actually lost some ground, and the left-wing Unidas Podemos (United We Can) party which is the Socialists' most natural ally in the Cortes Generales, as the Spanish parliament is known, has lost even more.


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