Come Eat With Me 2025

Come Eat With Me 2025 is a vibrant reflection on the foods, stories, and sustainable agriculture initiatives that shaped this year’s program. Rooted in the success of last year’s pilot and informed by years of climate-focused food security work, this exhibit offers a sensory journey through community-grown harvests, wild-foraged knowledge, and land-based innovation. It celebrates the hands that plant, prepare, and preserve, showcasing how food connects us across cultures and generations. More than a meal, it’s a shared act of resilience and creativity.

Freshly harvested rhubarb, chopped and packaged into four-cup portions for freezing. A key step in our food preservation efforts, ensuring this vibrant, tart bounty can be enjoyed all year long.

Rhubarb Rhapsody

There’s nothing quite like the vibrant, tart taste of freshly harvested rhubarb – a flavour that is both sharp and sweet, with a unique tang that brightens any dish.

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Jamie Bell May 31, 2025
This bright yellow flower is from a giant pumpkin—the first one ever grown in our food security and sustainable agriculture program.

The Unfolding Giant

A vibrant yellow bloom, tiny prelude to a giant dream. Youthful hands coax colossal growth from the earth, blending art, ancestral wisdom, and climate resilience into a living lab where food security blossoms into monumental art.

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Jamie Bell May 30, 2025
Under the warm spring sun, the ulu becomes an extension of the hand, gracefully preparing caribou meat for drying. This isn't just work; it's a living tradition, connecting us to the land and the wisdom of generations past.

Ancestral Cuts

Beneath the generous sun, the ulu sings. Each deliberate slice of caribou, a whispered conversation with ancestors, transforms sustenance into art. It’s a profound dance of hand and earth, weaving resilience into the very fabric of northern life.

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Eva Suluk May 28, 2025
Tender leaf lettuce seedlings, among the first to be planted this year, thrive in our grow-beds – a promising start to our community sustainable agriculture and food security program!

Emerald Canvas

From humble seeds, emerald dreams unfurl. Each tender lettuce leaf, a silent whisper of resilience, paints a vibrant tableau of community, sustainable art, and the profound beauty of shared food in a changing world.

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Jamie Bell May 27, 2025
In the crisp air of Northwestern Ontario, a blueberry bush unfurls its delicate beauty. These blossoms signal the start of a new season, a time when the landscape will be painted with the vibrant blue of ripening blueberries, a testament to the enduring beauty and natural abundance of this northern wilderness.

The Wild Blue Symphony

The wild blueberry, a painter’s deepest blue, embodies the north’s resilient heart. Each tiny orb, a concentrated burst of flavor and ancient wisdom, defies commercial uniformity, a testament to nature’s art and community’s reciprocal embrace of land and sky.

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Jamie Bell May 17, 2025
These early white blossoms belong to the Saskatoon bush (Amelanchier alnifolia), one of the boreal forest’s most generous and resilient plants. For generations, Saskatoon berries have nourished communities, supported pollinators, and thrived in northern climates. This year, we're proud to be adding Saskatoon bushes to our food production project—deepening our connection to the land, strengthening local food systems, and honouring traditional knowledge through action.

The Saskatoon Berry Tapestry

White blossoms unfurl, a silent chorus in the boreal breeze. Each petal whispers ancient stories of resilience, food, and community, a living art etched upon the northern canvas, honouring land and human spirit intertwined.

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Jamie Bell May 17, 2025
Seedlings for a northern apple orchard are thriving as spring arrives, marking the next phase of a community-led food sovereignty project. Seeded with support from the Manitoba Agriculture Indigenous Food Systems and Agriculture program and the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership, last year’s five pilot trees survived the winter. This season, 30 more apple trees will be planted—laying deep roots for a resilient, local food future.

The Apple’s Promise

From winter’s hush, a verdant symphony unfolds. Each tender apple shoot, a brushstroke on the northern canvas, whispers tales of resilience, community’s embrace, and the art of defiant growth against the unpredictable breath of the climate.

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Jamie Bell May 12, 2025
Strawberries are waking up in our northern garden, part of a project building community resilience through fresh food.

Where the Soil Meets the Soul

From slumbering soil, a vibrant tide unfurls, painting the landscape with whispers of crimson. Each berry, a tiny heart, beats with stories of earth’s embrace, resilience, and the sweet defiance of community’s art against the vast, uncertain sky.

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Jamie Bell May 10, 2025
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