Becky Zimmer

Humboldt

Freelance Journalist and Writer at Freelance

Farm girl with an English/Journalism degree. Freelancer writer and photographer Handler of #travellingmoose. Books, plants, dogs, and music. (She/her Treaty 6)

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Articles

VIDEO: The butterfly effect of floral planning

1 week ago | producer.com | Becky Zimmer

Glacier FarmMedia – In the white and gray of a Saskatchewan winter, Kristen Raney was thinking about rich chocolate browns, peaches and soft pink tones. As owner and operator of Shifting Blooms Flower Farm, the flower farmer, blogger and author uses the winter months to prepare for a successful growing season. In December, Raney was looking into wedding trends for 2025, scouring Pinterest for arrangement ideas and colour schemes she can sow into her upcoming flower crop.
Funding community infrastructure one ball of yarn at a time

2 weeks ago | saskdispatch.com | Becky Zimmer

Walking into the Humboldt Good Neighbour Store, thrifters never know what they’re going to find. Are they going to walk out with their next favourite outfit, the perfect bookshelf for their office, or a beautiful vase they just can’t leave behind? One thing is for sure, with every donation and every purchase, local thrifters are helping out worthwhile causes across Humboldt and the surrounding area.
Tips for growing cover crops

1 month ago | canadiancattlemen.ca | Becky Zimmer

More farmers and ranchers are looking at cover crops for many reasons, ranging from animal health, to reducing erosion, to capturing moisture. But how can people make them work on their operation? Kevin Elmy sees the benefits of a more hands-on approach to cover crop management. Through Cover Crops Canada, he talks with farmers and ranchers across Western Canada about their cover crop needs.
Ontario beef farmers buy abattoir to create their own supply chain

Feb 5, 2025 | canadiancattlemen.ca | Becky Zimmer

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Australian and Brazilian relationship a global win for Canadian cattle breed

Dec 26, 2024 | canadiancattlemen.ca | Becky Zimmer

Speckle Park are making their way around the world thanks to Australian interest in the Canadian breed.
Project diversification focuses work on English farm

Dec 6, 2024 | producer.com | Becky Zimmer

Producer steadily adds to the list of initiatives he has undertaken on his operation in an effort to maintain the family farm Ever the opportunist and entrepreneur, James Lee has been finding agribusiness opportunities throughout the Devon, England, region for nearly 20 years. His singular focus? Maintaining the family farm. Listing his projects was a feat in itself as we overlooked his pasture in the English countryside.
New crop adds biodiversity as well as profit

Dec 6, 2024 | producer.com | Becky Zimmer

Levelling technology allows farmers to grow rice in Switzerland as a way to restore unproductive swamp land The hot August sun beats down on acres of rice plants as frogs leap along the dikes separating different paddies. A snake slithers among the reeds and hundreds of dragonflies among the green stalks are too preoccupied to pose for a picture.
Agribition 2024: McCord product first mounted winner for cattle dog championship

Nov 29, 2024 | producer.com | Becky Zimmer

Dogs from across the Prairies put on a show at Canadian Western Agribition with a new cattle dog competition thrown into the mix. The cattle dog championship had both foot and mounted competitions this year with Caitlyn Mastad being the first mounted winner in Agribition history. Even when the rider’s attention is split between the dog, the horse and the stock, Mastad said she trusts the partnership she has with her teammates: two-year-old Border Collie, Sage, and 13-year-old gelding, Deets.
FUN, FACTS AND FARMING

Sep 3, 2024 | grainswest.com | Becky Zimmer

BY BECKY ZIMMER • PHOTO COURTESY OF IRENA CEKODid you know canola is a member of the Brassica family, which includes broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage and wasabi? Or, that Alberta sugar beet farmers supply eight per cent of Canada’s sugar market and one acre of beets produces 4,383 kilograms of sugar? Or that Alberta’s irrigation system consists of 8,043 kilometres of canals and pipelines? All of this can be discovered inside the Agriculture for Life Know Your Food mobile exhibit.
Keeping the community pub alive in Stoke Canon

Aug 26, 2024 | fulltankandtunes.wordpress.com | Becky Zimmer

When you’re visiting England and someone asks, “wanna go to the pub?”, the answer is never no. After speaking with a local farmer about diversification on his farm and young people farming in the Devon area, he asked if I needed a ride back to my friend’s place. There is no better walk than one down a narrow country lane in Devon, so I kindly refused. I needed the walk anyway, even before he said the magic words.