Farm Fresh
Farming in Manitoba has a long and varied history, ranging from the agricultural practices of Indigenous people on this land over the millennia, to immigrant farm techniques, to the more recent (re)discovery of organic farming. Featuring interviews with a farmer-professor and a German Canadian grandma, this episode explores a few of these farm stories.
Episode Transcript
EPISODE CREDITS
Written by Dorrie Hellegards, Jackson Anderson, Daniel Nychuk, and Janis Thiessen
Narrated by Daniel Nychuk and Janis Thiessen
Produced by Kent Davies
Interview participants: Royden Loewen, Daniel Nychuk’s anonymous Oma
Episode image: Kimberley Moore
Theme music: Robert Kenning
INTERVIEWS
“Oma”, interviewed by Daniel Nychuk, 26 June 2022 in Osborne, MB. Digital audio recording. Manitoba Food History Project, Other Regions series, Oral History Centre Archive, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB.
Royden Loewen, interviewed by Janis Thiessen, 12 March 2019, in Winnipeg MB. Digital audio recording. Manitoba Food History Project, Winnipeg series, Oral History Centre Archive, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB.
MUSIC
Lobo Loco – Country Dream Sequences
Scott Homes Music – Childhood Memories
Blue Dot Sessions - Calmion, Brer Menuet, Homin Brer, Convex Marsa
Sound effects
Fission9 – Polar Wind
NikPlaymostories – Tape Rewind – Sound Effect
Plasterbrain – Fast Forward
Snstro – Birds Summer
Soundmary – Tractor Approaching
XHALE303 – Workers Forging Steel
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