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Alberta Wheat and Barley Looking for Board of Directors

A pair of Alberta agriculture organizations are putting a call out to fill some board vacancies.

The Alberta Wheat Commission is seeking nominations from farmers to fill three board of director positions.

Two of which are in the Calgary area and are three-year gigs while the other one is in the Red Deer, Clearwater County, and Lacombe area and is a two-year position.

And Alberta Barley is looking for nominations from barley farmers to occupy three board of director roles.

One position for each of the following areas; northeastern Alberta, north-central Alberta including Edmonton, and northwestern Alberta.

The nomination deadline for both commissions is set for October 29, 2021.

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Alberta Honey: A Day at Molenkamp Honey Farms

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When was the last time you read the label on your honey?

We spent a day at Molenkamp Honey Farms with Michael Molenkamp, who has been keeping bees for 17 seasons and runs three to four thousand hives. In mid-September, he was finishing treatments and getting his bees ready for winter, and he walked us through how Alberta honey gets made.

Alberta has just 150 commercial beekeepers running 300,000 colonies, and together they produce 40% of Canada’s honey. Long summer days and golden canola fields give Alberta honey a light flavour that’s hard to match anywhere else.

Molenkamp calls Alberta beekeepers some of the most resilient farmers he knows. There’s plenty of Alberta honey to go around, but a lot on our shelves isn’t from here, so his ask is simple. Give the label a second look and choose honey made by Alberta beekeepers, or buy straight from a beekeeper near you.