Blog — News & Updates — Farmland Legacies

Stories, updates, and reflections from the Farmland Legacies team since 2014.

October 16, 2020

It's World Food Day! Please take a moment to read our Executive Director's important message (on your phone: touch the image until a menu appears, select "view …
September 26, 2019

Help Farmland Legacies turn this hay into healthy grass-fed ground beef for our food banks and soup kitchens in Saskatchewan. Please contribute in any way you c…
February 21, 2019

We are so grateful for The Mosaic Company - Canada 's support of our leafcutter bee and food bank beef programs! Partnering together on this initiative helps bu…
January 30, 2019

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April 25, 2018

The new calves of 2018 are making their appearance! Thank goodness the snow is finally gone. Check out the amazing facial markings on this newborn.
December 20, 2017

An acrostic for you this Christmas!
November 9, 2017

Thanks to the Western Producer and article writer Shirley Byers for the feature on Farmland Legacies in the Nov 2 issue! Here’s the link.
October 10, 2017

Dear Friends, I hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend celebrating the abundance and freedom that most of us enjoy in Canada. It’s often a big …
June 1, 2017

We are busy adding 3 new dugouts around the pastures on the farm, in order to better manage our herd. All part of our committment to the Legacy of One, our prog…
March 2, 2017

Thanks to Small Farm Canada for featuring an article about us in their Jan/Feb 2017 issue!
February 16, 2017

Today we're stripping leafcutter bee larvae from their nests. The stripping machine pushes the larvae from their nests into a container. Then they're boxed up, …
January 25, 2017

Congratulations to Michelle of Regina, the winner of the bluetooth speakers - (thank you, SaskTel!) - as part of our end-of-'16 "Legacy of One" donation drive. …
January 19, 2017

Hard to believe it's January! Melting snow, and above zero all night. The cows don't mind, though.
December 15, 2016

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December 8, 2016

There is still time to donate to this fall's Legacy of One project sponsoring ground beef to Sasktatchewan Food Banks. Anyone who makes a donation on or before …
May 26, 2016

Beautiful twin cows with momma. And a fine-looking bunch of ... dandelions (the cows are nice too). We found a goose nest in one of our bale stacks (see May 5 b…
May 5, 2016

Some beautiful little calves are becoming acquainted with our farm this year! The white-faced calf was only 5 hours old when the picture was taken. The markings…
March 23, 2016

Thank you, Wynyard Advance-Gazette, for featuring Farmland Legacies in your recent Agriculture Week section!
December 14, 2015

Christmas blessings!
October 15, 2015

How wonderfully appropriate that World Food Day - observed on October 16 each year - comes so soon after Canada’s Thanksgiving! For among all the blessings we h…
September 17, 2015

The summer always seems to go by so fast! One of the jobs we're working on these days is collecting the bales from the field. We load them onto a hay wagon in t…
July 20, 2015

We're busy making hay while the sun shines! Here below you can see our hay rake, collecting the cut hay into swaths. The baler will then pick up the swaths and …
June 25, 2015

Summertime work at the Home Quarter with the help of valued volunteers! Disinfecting bee nests so they're ready for use by our pollinating friends. Stacking the…
May 27, 2015

Beautiful Spring-time! How many new babies can you spot? A robin with an artist's heart built her nest in these coils of wire, hanging on the wall of a shed. Fo…
December 10, 2014

What happened today? - the media event regarding the delivery of Farmland Legacies ground beef and hamburgers at the Saskatoon Food Bank & Learning Centre. Chec…
November 27, 2014

Two days ago on November 25 a shipment of Farmland Legacies ground beef and hamburgers arrived at Saskatoon Food Bank. This was the first delivery to Saskatoon …
November 12, 2014

I’ve just returned from a conference in Camrose, Alberta that was called Respecting the Land: Transition to a New Economy. Wow! What a lot of good things going …
October 27, 2014

Thanks once again to Tracey Zambory and Lars Murran from SUN for coming out today and being part of the media release. As director of Farmland Legacies, I’m so …
October 16, 2014

World Food Day was founded by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization in 1945, and has been observed annually, every October 16, since 1981. The e…
October 3, 2014

Farmland Legacies is pleased to announce the addition of Drake Meats as the processor for the Saskatchewan Food Banks beef program!! Processing of ground beef b…
May 1, 2014

A great day today for Farmland Legacies as the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN) help launch the Legacy of One! It is so fitting that health care professionals…