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Planting Sage

With its soft, textured leaves and earthy aroma, sage brings more than flavor—it offers resilience, tradition, and a connection to generations of herb gardening practices. We’re looking forward to a meaningful harvest later this season.
Art Borups Corners June 3, 2025
This week, we planted sage in our community garden—a small act with deep roots. Known for its medicinal, culinary, and ceremonial uses, sage has long been a symbol of wisdom and renewal.

This week, we planted sage in our community garden—a small act with deep roots. Known for its medicinal, culinary, and ceremonial uses, sage has long been a symbol of wisdom and renewal.

Planting Sage and the Stories It Holds

This week, we planted sage in our community garden—a simple act that connects us to generations of growers, cooks, and caretakers. As part of our herb gardening efforts, the sage plant brings both beauty and purpose to our raised beds.

Sage is more than just a flavorful addition to fall recipes. It’s one of the most beloved healing herbs, traditionally used in teas, tinctures, and ceremonial smudging. Its soft, velvety leaves are rich in essential oils and known for their earthy scent and medicinal properties. Whether you’re learning how to grow sage for cooking or for wellness, it’s a low-maintenance perennial that thrives in sunny spots and well-drained soil.

As we gently tucked each seedling into the soil, we thought about the harvest to come—when the plants mature, and we can dry the leaves for winter use or share bundles with neighbors. But even now, at this early stage, sage offers something valuable: a reminder that growth takes time, and that planting a garden means investing in the future of both food and community.

We’re excited to watch our sage grow throughout the season and look forward to sharing the process—and the harvest—with all who visit or tend this shared space.

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Art Borups Corners

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Art Borup’s Corners is a northern arts incubator based in Melgund Township, Northwestern Ontario, where community-led creativity, land-based practice, and digital innovation come together. Rooted in the cultural rhythms of the boreal forest and shaped by years of grassroots organizing across Ontario, Manitoba, Nunavut, and Minnesota, Borup’s Corners supports artists, youth, and community members through participatory storytelling, climate-focused projects, and creative entrepreneurship. From wild blueberry walks to immersive AI-powered exhibitions, our seasonal programs and artist residencies foster connection, skill-building, and self-determined expression—all grounded in place, culture, and care.

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NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO ARTS PROGRAMS

This platform, our Northwestern Ontario hub and programs have been made possible with support from the Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program. We gratefully acknowledge their funding and support in making the work we do possible.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Arts Incubator and Art Borups Corners Collective was seeded with strategic arts innovation funding from the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse and the Local Services Board of Melgund. We thank them for their investment, support and bringing the arts to life.

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SUPPORTING ARTS AND RECREATION

Borups Corners Arts and Recreation supports arts and recreation in Melgund Township, Northwestern Ontario as volunteer-driven Arts Collective.

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