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Brother, sister business team wins $50,000

Cassandra Kyle, Saskatchewan News Network; CanWest News Service

Published: Friday, September 14, 2007

SASKATOON -- A brother and sister business team are finalizing their plans to open an aquaponics greenhouse near Osler after winning $50,000 through a University of Saskatchewan program.

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Gordon Graham's Humongous Tomato

On trips, he faithfully carried it with him, packing it in his wife's bowling ball bag
 
Eric Shackle (shack)  (Copyright 2007) 
Published 2007-08-20 13:57 (KST)
    
 
A tomato weighing 2.2 pounds (about one kilogram) was judged the largest and ugliest at the four-day Pittston Tomato Festival in Pennsylvania last week. That was less than one-third the world record weight, set in Oklahoma 21 years ago.

Instead of celebrating a new world record, this year's festival highlight was a pitched battle using ripe tomatoes as ammunition.

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Newsflash

By: Mark J. Crawford, Editor
September 27, 2007

The new year already has exciting things in store, including the January opening of the Bradford Farmers Market.
County commissioners have approved allowing the founders to use the site of the Bradford County Health Department for the market.
With a site chosen, the founders, including Sam Williams and Marilyn Dye, are working to develop rules for the market and generate interest in participation.
"We see it as a way to help preserve Bradford County's agricultural roots," Williams said.
Farmers markets allow growers to cut out the wholesaler and the long trip to the auction market, she said.

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