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Tomato Time

It feels like just a few weeks ago, the tomato plants were barely growing.
Jamie Bell July 19, 2025
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It’s been a beautiful season at our Northwestern Ontario Living Lab. Just weeks ago, our tomato plants were only just taking root—and now they’re full of plump green fruit, slowly ripening under the northern sun. All across our land-based spaces, growth is thriving: strawberries are blushing red, blackberries are filling out, and dill is standing tall and fragrant. Watching these plants grow from seed to harvest has been a joy, and a reminder of the patience, care, and wonder embedded in land-based learning. Summer has never tasted so good.

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Jamie Bell

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Jamie Bell is a Winnipeg-based interdisciplinary artist and strategist working at the intersection of media arts, community engagement, and public affairs. Among others, his work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council, and the OpenAI Researcher Access Program, with a focus on participatory media, strategic communications, and arts-based collaboration across northern and urban contexts.

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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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