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	<title>Food and Farming Canada &#187; random musings</title>
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		<title>A food nerd&#8217;s mountain top lunch</title>
		<link>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2010/06/18/food-nerds-mountain-top-lunch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian</dc:creator>
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My brother called me a food nerd today. I guess he&#8217;s right when I consider what I was doing to make him call me that.
We are in Switzerland this week and today we were in a mountaintop restaurant above Zermatt, having lunch. As soon as my lunch arrived, the first thing I did was arrange [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reconnecting with nature&#8217;s original alarm clock</title>
		<link>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2010/05/19/reconnecting-with-natures-original-alarm-clock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 03:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian</dc:creator>
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I grew up on a farm in rural Ontario and after about 15 years of living in the city, I returned to the country this past January when my husband and I bought a house just outside of town.
There are many things I like about no longer living in a sub-division &#8211; but one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where food, farming and bombs collide</title>
		<link>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2010/05/17/where-food-farming-and-bombs-collide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 18:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian</dc:creator>
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When they&#8217;re planting their crops, farmers in this area must always keep an eye out for unexploded bombs. Their lands were once battlefields and the dangerous remnants of those conflicts are still a threat today, decades after the end of hostilities.
Now any number of war-torn corners of the world may come to mind as you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food, farm and Mom</title>
		<link>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2010/05/09/food-farm-and-mom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 16:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s Mother&#8217;s Day today. Moms are special and hold a central place in any family &#8211; and the same is probably true even more so on the farm, where Moms are central to keeping home, family and business running smoothly.
Fellow blogger Shaun Haney of Real Agriculture has a great post on his blog about this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An IFAJ congress in food and drink</title>
		<link>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2010/05/07/an-ifaj-congress-in-food-and-drink/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 02:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian</dc:creator>
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Last month, I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the International Federation of Agriculture Journalists (IFAJ) annual congress, which took place in Belgium and Luxembourg.
Much to my satisfaction &#8211; as one who really loves to eat &#8211; food and drink played a key role in this gathering of those who write about food [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Return of the ash</title>
		<link>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2010/05/06/return-of-the-ash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 01:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian</dc:creator>
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There was a bit of deja-vu in the air along with the ash as I read in the news this morning that an airport-closing plume had made another appearance in Britain.
It seems a bit like old news now &#8211; but a few short weeks ago, the  impossibly-named volcano in Iceland that had somehow managed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In a palace by the sea</title>
		<link>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2010/04/17/in-a-palace-by-the-sea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canadian Farm Writers]]></category>
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Well, we&#8217;ve finally arrived in lovely Ostende, a city on the Belgian coast and our home base for the next few days. And we are among the lucky ones &#8211; it looks like about half of our IFAJ colleagues either never got off the ground or are stranded at airports in various parts of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meeting the little man that pees</title>
		<link>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2010/04/14/meeting-the-little-man-that-pees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian</dc:creator>
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The great Belgian adventure of 2010 is underway&#8230;and I spent less than 24 hours in Belgium before leaving that country for another. At the moment I am in Luxembourg, where we&#8217;ll be spending the next three days of our IFAJ 2010 pre-congress tour.
IFAJ is the International Federation of Agriculture Journalists &#8211; and this year I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The spaghetti tree hoax</title>
		<link>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2010/04/01/spaghetti-tree-hoax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian</dc:creator>
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In honour of April Fool&#8217;s day&#8230;a joke involving a spaghetti tree is listed among the top 100 hoaxes of all time.
In 1957, the BBC broadcast a story about a bumper spaghetti harvest from spaghetti trees in Switzerland. Many UK listeners called in with questions, including how they could grow their own spaghetti trees. 
It should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teats and tweets</title>
		<link>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2010/03/07/teats-and-tweets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian</dc:creator>
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A unique project brings daily activities of milking cows to new media tool Twitter.  
This article appears in this month&#8217;s Ontario Dairy Farmer magazine and is the full length version of shorter blog article I posted here a couple of weeks ago. 
They’re an unlikely team – a new media researcher in Waterloo, an [...]]]></description>
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