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Melgund Township, Northwestern Ontario
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Community Garden

Rooted in the principles of sustainable agriculture, our Northwestern Ontario arts-driven living lab is a creative, community-based hub for tackling food insecurity through regenerative small-scale farming, intergenerational knowledge transmission, and climate resilience.

Community-Driven Sustainable Agriculture in Northwestern Ontario and Manitoba

Operating across key regions—including Winnipeg, Manitoba, Minnesota, and Northwestern Ontario—our living lab integrates art, ecology, and innovation to strengthen local food systems and inspire action. Combining traditional practices, permaculture, and hands-on education with artistic collaboration, we work to empower communities to co-create sustainable, community-led food solutions that respond to the impacts of climate change, and the need for youth-led initiatives, participatory design, and cross-border partnerships.

Beautiful, ripe strawberries, hand-picked after a season of careful cultivation.
Community Garden

How Often to Water Strawberries?

A lot of people have been asking: How often to water strawberries?
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A vibrant, purple chive blossom bursts forth in a delicate, globe-like cluster of tiny florets, a beautiful and edible jewel in the garden. Set against a dense backdrop of their slender, emerald-green, and onion-scented stalks, this blooming stage signifies a healthy, well-established plant.
Community Garden

How to Care for Chives

Learn how to care for chives with our comprehensive guide to sunlight, watering, and soil. Discover the simple steps to keep this cold-hardy perennial producing…
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Blooming before the trees leaf out, this resilient native sedge brings early life to shaded northern forests. With its signature triangular stems, Pennsylvania sedge forms soft, flowing green carpets under the dense boreal canopy.
Community Garden

Golden Tassels: Pennsylvania Sedge

Learn how Ontario's wild Pennsylvania sedge uses wind pollination and creeping roots to anchor dry woodland ecosystems.
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One of the newest additions, this apple tree was seeded last winter in the greenhouse and was just planted in its new home.
Community Garden

How to Care for Apple Trees

Discover how to care for apple trees from planting to harvest.
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Growing Apple Trees from Seed
Community Garden

Growing Apple Trees from Seed

Watching our young apple seedlings leaf out brings a genuine sense of excitement to the garden routine.
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Vibrant glow moss carpets the damp boreal forest floor of Northwestern Ontario, creating a lush green wonderland. Lacking true roots, this microscopic ancient plant absorbs moisture directly through its leaves to survive harsh conditions.
Community Garden

Glow Moss: The Living Sponge

Glow Moss (Aulacomnium palustre), is a vibrant, water-retaining bryophyte blanketing the damp forest floors of Northwestern Ontario.
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These tiny native violets hug the cold forest floor to survive harsh northern winds and early frosts. Intricate purple nectar guides act as vivid runway lights, directing early spring pollinators to these microscopic wildflowers.
Photos and Short Stories

Tiny Treasures: The Secret World of White Violets

From feeding native bees to hosting rare butterfly caterpillars, these minuscule plants quietly anchor Ontario’s fragile ecosystem.
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Delayed by a cold spring, unique green and purple apple seedlings finally leaf out in the land lab.
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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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Tiny green threads of dill lift flat, striped seed hulls out of the coarse earth.
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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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The Nuclear Waste Management Organization is inviting residents and land users in the area of Canada's proposed Deep Geological Repository for used nuclear fuel to participate in a Diet and Land-Use Survey. The information collected will help inform local perspectives as the project moves through the federal regulatory process.

The survey can be completed online or through an in-person interview at the Ignace Learn More Centre. It is open until September 7, 2026, and participants will have the opportunity to enter a draw to win one of twenty C$125 gift cards redeemable at local businesses.

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 SEEDED BY

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