“If you haven’t tried Shelly’s 4X bread, are you really enjoying that sandwich?” In all honesty, the ship has long since sailed for that bread-tasting opportunity. But if you were around Western Canad...

Chefs are today’s rock stars and providing them with innovative educational opportunities allows them to be ambassadors for many tantalizing foods, including pulses—the official term for beans, peas, ...

Farming isn’t rocket science. It’s actually more complicated than that. The high-tech equipment and production practices employed by farmers today raise the bar on efficiency, environmental sustainabi...

It is difficult to imagine a time when coffee wasn’t everywhere, but hundreds of years ago Italian peasants—unable to afford what was then a premium product—refined the art of recreating the satisfyin...

Calgary International Beerfest—Western Canada’s largest beer festival—is a great opportunity for both new and established breweries, large and small, to showcase their inventive brews for thousands of...

About 20 farmers attended a FarmSafe workshop in Grand Prairie on March 9, part of a series of learning days hosted by Alberta’s four crop commissions in conjunction with Alberta Agriculture and Fores...

Over the past century, we have seen the rise and subsequent fall of a western Canadian grain handling system run by co-operatives—its fall due in some measure to management mistakes....

When confronted with the question of who owns western Canadian farmland, the most obvious answer is farmers—and in the majority of cases, this is true. However, concerns have started to emerge about t...

A grain bin looms large over the tasting room at Tool Shed Brewing near Calgary’s city centre. After 125 years of storing grain at Antler Valley Farm near Red Deer, it stands as a tribute to malt barl...

“Whatever you do, do it right, and for the right reasons, or don’t do it at all.” It’s a lesson his dad taught him early and often, and one that has guided him throughout his working life. ...