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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.

It's that time of summer! We're starting to see the blueberries ripe enough for picking. Photo: Jamie Bell
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Blueberry Bounty

Northwestern Ontario Blueberries deliver exceptional flavor, a cornerstone of northern summer food traditions.
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A close look at Dwarf Red Raspberries, a focus of our art and storytelling project on native plants.
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The Low-Growing Delights

Dwarf Red Raspberries: part of our project documenting Ontario's native plants and stories.
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Northwestern Ontario blueberries, just starting to turn. Soon they'll be perfectly ripe for picking!
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Wild Blueberry Watch

The Promise of Blue: Northwestern Ontario's Berry Season Look at these little guys! You can just see them, nestled among the green leaves in Northwestern…
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Nature's candy: Saskatoon berries are almost here! We're tracking their progress with one of our arts projects this year.
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Saskatoon Season Beckons

Saskatoon berries are plumping up. Discover this versatile Canadian fruit, perfect for picking.
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Delicate dill plants are thriving in the Living Lab's community garden, a returning favorite from last year's pilot program.
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Dill: A Taste of Memory

Living Lab's dill thrives, a flavorful memory from our pilot program. Our community garden blends sustainable agriculture, storytelling, and plant documentation.
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Vibrant purple chive blossoms in full bloom at the Living Lab, offering a beautiful subject for photography and adding to the richness of the community garden.
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Chives in Full Glory

Living Lab chives bloom, offering vibrant photography subjects. Our arts-integrated project highlights sustainable herbs and nature connections.
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The vibrant red of the first ripe strawberries emerges from the rich soil, marking a joyful milestone in this year's sustainable agriculture and food production program for northern Indigenous communities.
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Strawberries: From Pilot to Plenty

Sweet success! Our first strawberries are ripe and ready.
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The Land Lab's sustainable agriculture project expands this summer with the successful cultivation of traditional herbs like sage, enriching our storytelling initiative.
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Sage Thrives in Land Lab

This summer we're documenting garden and traditional plants while supporting community engagement on the land.
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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.
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Chives: More Than Just an Herb

These pretty purple chive blooms defy expectations. They transform gardens, flavor dishes, spark creativity, and simplify home decorating.
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These small, tightly-closed green buds nestled amongst the glossy leaves of the pepper plant are a welcome sight and a critical milestone. This is indeed the flowering stage, a clear sign that the plant is healthy, mature, and ready to begin the process of fruiting. Each of these nascent buds holds the promise of a future pepper. With continued sunlight and care, they will soon open into small, delicate flowers, which, once pollinated, will transform into the crisp, sweet green peppers destined for the table.
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Green and Red Peppers

"Our pepper plants are starting to show signs of things really kicking off, with new buds ready to become beautiful flowers."
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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.


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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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