MARCH 2025 • WINTER FAIR • THE BRANDON SUN
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Kids feed the sheep and goats at the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair’s annual Royal Petting Zoo – a perennial favourite. (File/The Brandon Sun)
“If you’ve been to the fair (before), or this is your very first time, this is some- thing that you have never seen,” Swain said. “It’s going to be exciting … wheth- er you’re a six-year-old walking through looking at cartoon characters, or you’re an adult just wanting to learn about ag- riculture and the impact it has in our ev- eryday lives. That’s why we went after it.” The exhibit brings viewers through a story told by more than twenty displays including live soil, organisms, and TV screens. The process teaches about the purpose that soil plays in life and the im- portance of soil in the ecosystem. Ingenium, a museum operator owned by the Canadian government, estimat- ed on its website that the exhibit weighs roughly 9,665 lbs and takes three days to set up. The exhibit is scheduled to show across North America in the next two years including in Nebraska, British Co- lumbia and Ontario. A horse gets brushed down before a competition during the 2024 Royal Manitoba Winter Fair. (File/The Brandon Sun)
Originally from Calgary, AB, Danielle Urban who now hails from Omaha, NB washes nine-year-old Falco after a competition during the opening day of the 2024 Royal Manitoba Winter Fair. (Matt Goerzen/The Brandon Sun)
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