Celebrate food … from field to table
Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by Karen Armstrong in Chicken Soup
March is National Nutrition Month. Each March, for the past 28 years, Dietitians of Canada invites Canadians to take a closer look at the role food and nutrition play in a healthy lifestyle. This year dietitians want us to take time to learn where our food comes from and to celebrate the fabulous products grown and produced in Canada.
Here in Manitoba we have over 19,000 farms and 1 in every 18 Manitobans lives on a farm. Manitoba farms produce great foods like fruits, vegetables, herbs, honey, milk, eggs, meat, poultry, pulses, canola, flax, hemp and, of course, the grains that the prairies are famous for. The average farm produces enough to feed 120 people, compared with only 10 people in 1900.
Manitoba has 118 registered farms raising meat chicken. These farms raise their birds on a diet of grains, without the use of hormones, and allow them to roam freely throughout the barns. Manitoba chicken farmers focus on supplying enough chicken to meet the demand for chicken in Manitoba. You’ll find Manitoba grown chicken in all the major grocery stores in the province.
For more information about chicken visit Manitoba chicken .
For more information about other Manitoba foods visit foodmanitoba.ca.
