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Melgund Township, Northwestern Ontario
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Delayed by a cold spring, unique green and purple apple seedlings finally leaf out in the land lab.
Community Garden

Apple Trees Opening Up

Discover how Art Borups Corners is utilizing a community apple orchard to talk about northern food security.
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Community Breakfast Brunch on May 30
Recreation

Community Breakfast Brunch on May 30

Fresh breakfast, friendly faces, and community connection await residents at the Melgund Township Community Breakfast and Brunch event.
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Tiny green threads of dill lift flat, striped seed hulls out of the coarse earth.
Community Garden

The Dill Appears

Dill. Our favourite plant begins its season as a pair of thin shoots in the mulch.
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Rain Catchers: A single bead of rainwater rests perfectly in the center of a radiating lupine leaf, capturing the quiet, green morning light of a northern garden.
Community Garden

Lupines: Living Lenses in the Soil

Lupines shape the soil and inspire creative growth in our Northwestern Ontario community garden.
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This rugged clump of Common Wood-rush stands out against the surrounding terrain at our Northwestern Ontario land lab. The plant showcases its characteristic wide, flat leaves mixed with weathered, papery brown tips left over from surviving a brutal Boreal winter under the snow. On the left side, the newly emerging spring flower clusters are already waving on thin stalks above the dense mound.
Community Garden

Wood Rush

Wood-rush looks like grass but belongs to a different family. Learn to spot this resilient native plant in Northwestern Ontario.
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A northwestern Ontario arts and speaker series event focused on grief, memory, and healing, featuring artist Leanne Nicholson. This session explores how loss reshapes the body, work, and identity, and how art becomes a practice of holding experience that cannot be fully expressed in language.
Borups Corners

After Leah with Leanne Nicholson

June’s Artist Speaker Series invites community reflection on grief, memory, mental wellness, healing, and contemporary northern creative expression.
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Known traditionally as kinnikinnick, this resilient groundcover provides critical early season sustenance for hungry native queen bumblebees. Later this summer, these delicate pink clusters will transform into bright red berries that feed local bears.
Community Garden

Boreal Bells: Wild Bearberry

These hardy evergreen shrubs use urn shaped blossoms to protect their precious nectar from harsh northern elements.
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After a two-week delay from chilly spring weather, our raspberry canes are finally sprouting fresh green leaves. Cold weather held them back, but the community raspberry project at the land lab is officially underway.
Food Security and Innovation

Raspberry Canes Are Finally Sprouting

Help us monitor plant health and growth rates by following our community-led agricultural research updates all summer.
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This summer, our community garden is blending hands-on arts programming with real-world climate action and scientific research. Native milkweed takes years to bloom, so we planted fast-growing Blood Flower for some immediate summer color.
Community Garden

Watching the Milkweed Sprout

We are squinting at the dirt in Melgund Township, watching the first fragile milkweed sprouts break through.
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The young apple trees have officially cleared the winter hurdle, breaking dormancy with intense maroon growth.
Community Garden

Apple Seedlings Meet the Spring Sun

Planted last season, these resilient plants are now showing steady, measurable progress as year two begins.
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Latest News and Updates

  • Melgund Creek Running Strong
  • Melgund Canada Day Arts and Crafts Market: Francine Higgins
  • Radical Rhubarb: The Tangy Triumph
  • Canada Day Celebration in Melgund Township Features Crafter Terri Bell’s Crocheted and Dolls
  • Painted Paddle, Northern Spirit

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Upcoming Events

Celebrate Canada Day by showcasing your talents at the upcoming Dyment Community Craft Sale on July 1st! Held at the Dyment, Ontario Community Centre & Grounds from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM, this vibrant community market is officially calling for local vendors, artisans, and creators to join the festivities. Organizers are currently seeking applications for a wide variety of booths, including handmade crafts, artisan goods, local produce, vintage & unique finds, and delicious eats. It is a fantastic opportunity for small businesses and hobbyists alike, offering both tables and tent spaces with no fee for tables. To learn more about booth information, request an application, or register for the event, interested vendors can contact Terri at 807-220-5177, email melgundlsb@gmail.com, or visit the official website at www.melundrecreation.ca. Make sure to submit your application before the deadline on June 25th. Don't miss out on this incredible celebration of creativity and community in Melgund Township!
Celebrate Canada Day in Melgund Township with live music, local food, artists, vendors and family fun at the Dyment Recreation Hall and Complex on July 1. Enjoy performances by Gerry and Tanya McArthur, Walter and Friends, and more.
Join Art Borups Corners on July 18, 2026 at the Dyment Recreation Hall for an evening of food, music, creativity, and community connection. Enjoy a community BBQ, connect with neighbours, and help imagine the future of local parks and greenspaces through drawing, mapping, storytelling, and conversation. Part of the national Everyone Outdoors Together initiative led by the Canadian Parks and Recreation Association (CPRA).
Discover a growing collection of inspirational and motivational short stories from Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario, created to inspire hope, resilience, courage, and personal growth. These uplifting short stories and daily motivational reads are rooted in strong community values, dignity, integrity, perseverance, and leadership—reflecting life across the Prairies and Northern Ontario.

Each inspirational story delivers powerful life lessons, positive mindset reminders, and encouragement for self-improvement, mental strength, and purposeful living. Whether you’re searching for motivational stories for tough times, short stories about resilience and overcoming challenges, or inspirational reflections grounded in rural, northern, and Indigenous-informed community perspectives, this collection is designed to fuel optimism, confidence, and long-term success.

Through storytelling that highlights community leadership, youth empowerment, kindness, and values-based living, these inspirational short stories help readers in Manitoba, Northwestern Ontario, and beyond stay grounded, build inner strength, and move forward with clarity, hope, and possibility.

ART BORUPS CORNERS SOCIETY

Art Borups Corners is a non-profit arts incubator based in Melgund Township, Northwestern Ontario. We bring artists, youth, and local residents together through hands-on creative projects, workshops, and storytelling rooted in everyday life in the North. Our focus is on making space for people to try things, share skills, and build confidence through art that grows out of where they live.


We’re also a place for testing ideas and working across different ways of making — from land-based practice to digital work and everything in between. Much of what we do happens through partnerships and shared projects, connecting local creative work with wider conversations while keeping things grounded, practical, and community-led.


BN: 790519573RC0001

ESTABLISHED WITH FUNDING FROM

Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse Logo

This program was seeded with funding from the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse program. This program allowed us to explore strategic arts innovation, capacity building and new technologies. Programming was also supported by the OpenAI Researcher Access Program, the Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program and the Province of Ontario. We thank them for their support.

PROGRAMMING SUPPORTED BY

Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program
Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program
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