May is here and that means we are soon moving our operations from the streets of Winnipeg to our land lab in Northwestern Ontario to get our food security work back into the soil.
Spring is finally in full swing, and with summer around the corner, we’re getting ready to head back to our land lab and food security programming. For those who don’t know we maintain two distinct sides of our program: our urban hub in Winnipeg and our land lab in Northwestern Ontario. It’s a balance that defines who we are, moving between the city and the bush as the seasons change.
Throughout the fall and winter months, our work is almost entirely city-bound to align with the school season. We focus on a lot of digital and indoor activities during the cold months, but we always head back to the soil once the weather turns and school is over. Now that the heat is finally staying and the semester is almost done, it’s only a few more weeks to travel and get our hands back into the land-based work we’ve been planning for all winter.
Once we arrive, our days will be spent tending flowers and managing the food security side of the lab. It is more than just agricultural work; we also use our community garden program as an outdoor arts studio. We’re really looking forward to documenting the local plants and wildlife through photography and using the landscape to ground our creative projects for the rest of the year.
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