by Rob Blaich | Oct 25, 2016 | CCARM News, Home News
Manitoba Pulse & Soybean Growers has announced the winners of its Why Pulses? Challenge, an initiative launched to celebrate and promote pulses during 2016, the UN-declared International Year of Pulses. The challenge ran from the beginning of this year until June...
by Rob Blaich | Feb 13, 2012 | CCARM News, Home News
YouTube’s view count of “Consider the Bean” is over 30,000 and rising! Views of the 1-minute video produced for the Canadian Centre for Agri-Food Research in Health and Medicine (CCARM) virtually exploded over the weekend. The dramatic increase, due in part to recent...
by Rob Blaich | Jan 27, 2012 | CCARM News, Home News
Dried beans, referred to as legumes or pulse crops, are actually the edible seeds that grow in pods on annual plants, bushes, or vines. They can be eaten fresh, sprouted, dried, and ground into flour. “They are also an interesting medium for portraiture” says Bill...