Downtown Kamsack, Canada in the Middle of Rush Hour Traffic
Madge Lake near Kamsack
Kamsack Morning View
Open Fields and Open Skies
Granaries for a Large Scale Farm. Small Farms are an Endangered Species
Cold Winter Morning
The New Grain Elevator
Sunset Near the Old Grain Elevators
The Ukrainian Church: Church Goers are also Becoming Scarce in Small Towns
Inside the Ukrainian Church
Ukrainian Easter
Real Home Made Sausage, Yummy...
Not for Vegetarians: Free Range Cattle are Becoming Rare
Let's Catch the Gopher! This dog was digging for about 30 minutes.
Off-Roading on the Farm. That's my mom on the back.
Hey! It's Hay.
Skies are Huge in Central Canada
The Local Combine Dealership. They are more than $300,000 each.
Charlie the Donkey bought for $50.
My New Pet Calf
The End of Rural Towns
It is surprising and sad to see how much rural towns like Kamsack have declined over the years. When I was a child, Kamsack was a smaller town but very vibrant. There were many stores and business was booming.
Now most of the stores have closed and younger people have moved to bigger cities. On every street there are five to ten for sale signs on houses. If you want cheap real estate in Canada, this is a good place to come. Some of the older houses can be bought for less than $30,000.
The worst part of all this urbanization is that our food production is shifting to large corporate farms. We are eating more processed foods with more chemicals. It is getting very difficult to find decent quality fresh food in supermarkets. Meat is especially scary with all the growth hormones and antibiotics being used.
I don’t blame the corporations, they are just serving consumer demand. It is our own purchases that are fueling the demise of real food. If you care, pay more and buy from local farmers. Don’t buy pre-cooked and frozen foods. Sure it costs more, but how much is your health worth to you.
Please let me know in the comments if you like these picture posts or not. I am not sure if I will continue to add them.
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I definitely love the pictures! I agree with you about family farms. I purchase my meat from a small farmer here in Texas who doesn’t give the animals any antibiotics, vaccinations, or hormones. They breed their own animals and don’t buy any from others. All the livestock get to wander around on pasture as well. I truly believe you are what you eat.
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