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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.

Watching the fuzzy grey buds turn into bright yellow catkins signals the true start of spring. These yellow pussy willow blooms offer critical nutrition to local pollinators when food sources are scarce.
Community Garden

Early Food for the Bees

Blooming pussy willow catkins provide a vital source of early-season pollen for emerging native bees.
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Vibrant red flowers will soon decorate our land while thousands of other seeds finish their winter nap.
Community Garden

Little Sprouts, Big Ambitions

Our Milkweed To Market Journey Begins with Blood Flower Milkweed
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Wild berries depend on the unique buzz-pollination skills only our native bumble bees bring to the boreal forest.
Photos and Short Stories

The Boreal’s Best Brawler

Planting milkweed and goldenrod ensures that Northwestern Ontario remains a thriving stronghold for bees and migrating butterflies.
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Our overgrown raspberry beds will soon be moved as our land lab and local community garden program enters its spring planting season.
Community Garden

Spring Land Lab Cleanup Begins

Spring cleanup begins with the Art Borups Corners Land Lab as raspberry plants prepare for transplant into expanded community gardens.
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The Milkweed to Market project began its planting season in Borups Corners and Melgund Township to support monarch butterfly habitat restoration.
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Seeding our Blood Flower Milkweed

Community-led Milkweed to Market initiative blends monarch conservation, arts, and sustainable climate entrepreneurship.
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For the last few years, we've let the fireweed grow in our little meadow. And this year, we're adding six varieties of milkweed to the mix!
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Our Monarch Mission

Six Milkweeds to Join Our Meadow As the snow finally retreats across Northwestern Ontario, our community is gearing up for something big. We are officially…
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This frost acts as a lethal "kill switch," rupturing the plant’s cells and ending its life cycle for the season. This icy death is exactly why seeds require stratification; they must remain dormant to avoid being destroyed by the very cold seen here. Once this freezing cycle passes, the seeds finally receive the signal that it is safe to wake up and grow.
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Stratification and The Big Chill!

Nature’s Secret to Waking Up a Meadow If you have ever planted a packet of wildflower seeds only for nothing to happen, you likely weren't…
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This article explores the importance and overlooked beauty of milkweed, highlighting its essential role in supporting the Monarch butterfly and broader pollinator ecosystems. It connects this ecological value to the community-led Milkweed to Market project in Melgund Township, where residents participate in planting, seed bomb making, and habitat restoration through arts and recreation programming. The piece also reflects on how these small, local actions contribute to a deeper understanding of the land, including informal baseline observations tied to the nearby Deep Geological Repository impact assessment, while extending into creative practices like papermaking and youth entrepreneurship.
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Milkweed Matters

Milkweed in Northwestern Ontario: A plant people used to pull out For a long time, milkweed was treated like a weed. It was seen as…
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Tomato Time
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Tomato Time

It feels like just a few weeks ago, the tomato plants were barely growing.
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Red Clover: the familiar charm of a summer meadow in Northwestern Ontario. Photo: Jamie Bell
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Clover’s Comfort

Appreciate the common yet captivating Red Clover, a familiar and vital presence in Ontario's fields.
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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.


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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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