By Jennifer MacKenzie Hosting a big holiday meal can be nerve-wracking, even for seasoned hosts, but it doesn’t need to be stressful. Here we bring you how to cook Turkey dinner with a timeline, tips and a few don’ts. Being prepared goes a long way to reducing panic and getting your fabulous meal on the …

#DYK that we grow some of the healthiest foods in the world in Canada? One of those foods is lentils. Nutritionally, they are a good source of fibre, potassium, folate, plant protein and help with blood sugar control. Plus they are easy to cook and taste great! Canada grows about 1/3 of all the lentils …

Speaker: Dr. Sara Place, Chief Sustainability Officer, Elanco Animal Health. Dr. Place discusses how grazing animals fit within a sustainable food system, covering sustainability, feed vs. food competition and climate change. This lecture was part of a series of presentations hosted by Farm & Food Care Ontario  November 10, 2020, at the Royal Winter Fair Food …

Speaker: Dr. Frank Mitloehner is a Professor and Air Quality Specialist in Cooperative Extension in the Department of Animal Science at the University of California, Davis. It’s crucial that we do not increase the methane we’re putting in the atmosphere. This makes it even more important to understand how methane is being measured. Could livestock …

Speaker: Dr Kim Ominski, Professor and Associate Head at the University of Manitoba. Dr Ominski has established a research program aimed at improving the productivity and sustainability of beef cattle production in Western Canada. This work includes identification of greenhouse gas mitigation strategies conducted in collaboration with multidisciplinary team of researchers from across Canada. This …

Speaker: Dr. June Matthews, PhD, RD, PHEc, Associate Professor in Food and Nutrition Sciences at Brescia College. Dr. Matthews shares her education strategies to teach university students about agriculture, about its complexity as well as the wide ranging contributions to help preserve wildlife habitats, mitigate global warming & sustain rural communities while providing abundant, safe, …

Speaker: Clinton Monchuk, Executive Director of Farm & Food Care Saskatchewan. Clinton is a 3rd generation Canadian farmer discusses how precision agriculture has impacted the health and sustainability of today’s farms. Dirt is the life blood of all farms. Through precision agriculture, farmers know where to put what is needed, when it is needed. This …

Speaker: Dr. Christian Artuso was the Manitoba Director for Bird Studies Canada (https://bsc-eoc.org/). Dr. Artuso is devoted to the conservation of prairie grasslands and the many species that call this ecosystem home, which includes some of Canada’s most threatened. We often hear how growing or raising our food has damaging affects on our planet, leaving …

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