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Home / Food Security and Innovation

Food Security and Innovation

Our Food Security & Climate Resilience Program empowers Indigenous and Northern communities through land-based, sustainable agriculture and food innovation. Originally piloted in 2024 with funding from the Manitoba Agriculture Indigenous Food Systems and Agriculture Program and the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership, this initiative weaves together traditional knowledge, regenerative practices, and climate entrepreneurship—fuelled by the creativity of the arts. In 2025 the program expanded to work with Northwestern Ontario, Minnesota and Nunavut.

Reclaiming Food Sovereignty through Living Labs, Sustainable Agriculture and Creative Leadership

From local food production and preservation to the development of culturally relevant food products and community-led agri-innovation, the program strengthens food sovereignty while building skills and pathways for the next generation of land stewards, artists, and changemakers. By connecting agriculture, climate action, and artistic expression, we’re growing a resilient, just, and thriving food future—rooted in community, culture, and care.

Beautiful red leaves are finally emerging on young apple saplings after a slow start this May.
Photos and Short Stories

Apple Tree Seedlings Take Root

Second-year apple trees started from seed indoors are successfully adapting to their first outdoor spring season.
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Fresh buds on raspberry canes signal that the backyard growing season is officially underway this May.
Food Security and Innovation

Waiting on the Green: Raspberries

Budding raspberry canes bring the first signs of life to grow boxes after a slow spring start.
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Watching the slow emergence of Saskatoon berry buds brings a welcome sign of life this May.
Food Security and Innovation

Saskatoon Berries: Waiting on the Wild Side

Saskatoon berry bushes are running nearly a week behind, but buds are finally beginning to open.
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Hundreds of rural public sector workers face immediate financial ruin as the Government of Canada prepares to dismantle its regional agricultural network. The aggressive $394-million spending cuts have triggered a massive revolt from small-town mayors and union leaders, who are fiercely condemning the destruction of local economies and the implementation of draconian federal gag orders. With generational public infrastructure facing total abandonment, rural communities are demanding an immediate halt to what they call a reckless betrayal of Canada's agricultural heartland.
Food Security and Innovation

Rural towns rally as federal farming cuts threaten hundreds of jobs and spark secrecy concerns

Hundreds of public sector farming jobs are on the line as local mayors slam federal gag orders blocking research station staff from speaking out.
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Colder temperatures mean our raspberry canes are still sleeping, putting us a bit behind last year's schedule. This photo is from May 11, last year.
Photos and Short Stories

The Raspberry Snooze

This spring is much colder than last year, causing our raspberry bushes to remain stubbornly in dormancy.
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Canada's organic agriculture sector has been plunged into regulatory uncertainty following the official closure of the Canadian General Standards Board on April 1, 2026. Industry representatives testifying before the federal agriculture committee revealed that the dissolution leaves critical organic and GMO standards entirely unfunded, threatening international trade equivalency agreements.
Food Security and Innovation

Data Vacuum and Regulatory Gaps Threaten Canadian Organic Sector

Canada's multi-million-dollar organic export market faces a regulatory cliff. Discover why industry leaders are pleading for urgent parliamentary intervention.
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Farming scientists warn that Ottawa's plan to cut regional labs and organic research programs will leave Canadian crops highly vulnerable to climate change.
Food Security and Innovation

Agriculture experts warn federal research cuts will stall crop innovation and soil protection

Agricultural experts warn that closing regional research stations will permanently disrupt crop innovation and soil conservation efforts.
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Canada allocates less than one percent of public spending to agriculture compared to the international G7 standard.
Food Security and Innovation

Redesigning Broken Safety Nets for Agriculture

Canadian environmental compliance regulations backfire by adding heavy administrative burdens that actively drive down agricultural program enrollment numbers.
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Debt ratios now exceed thirty percent as corporate retailers shift financial burdens backward onto small family farms.
Food Security and Innovation

The Collapse of Farm Succession in Canada

Canada faces a major structural crisis as the national farm renewal rate drops to twenty four percent.
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Domestic fruit growers face severe financial distress after operating at an outright net loss for consecutive years.
Food Security and Innovation

The Squeeze on Canadian Agriculture

Canadian greenhouse profit margins plummeted from nine percent to five percent due to rampant input cost inflation.
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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 SEEDED BY

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