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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—fueled by the creativity of the arts. In 2025 the program expanded to work with Northwestern Ontario, Minnesota and Nunavut.

Reclaiming Food Sovereignty with 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.

A tight cluster of chive flowers presents a striking study in texture and color, offering a captivating subject for close-up photography within the Living Lab.
Food Security and Innovation

How to Care for Chives in Summer

How to Care for Chives in Any Garden Setup
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Modest legislative strides pulled Manitoba out of the D-range, but policy gaps in rental assistance and northern food security continue to trap households.
Food Security and Innovation

Manitoba climbs to ‘C-‘ grade in national poverty report

While Manitoba secured the second-highest grade in the country, the province still flunked four major categories including food insecurity and social support adequacy.
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Beautiful, ripe strawberries, hand-picked after a season of careful cultivation.
Food Security and Innovation

How Often to Water Strawberries for Sweet Fruit

How Often to Water Strawberries Without Drowning Your Crop
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How to Care for Strawberries
Food Security and Innovation

How to Care for Strawberries

Find out how to care for strawberries using the right mulching techniques to lock in soil moisture and protect low-hanging berries.
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Young farmers are effectively becoming a vanishing group, raising serious questions about who will be left to feed nine million citizens as older operators retire over the coming years.
Climate Entrepreneurship

Funding the Funeral: Canada Trails Western World in Agricultural Defense

Vicious federal research cuts threaten to strip twenty seven million dollars from vital scientific innovation.
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A sweeping federal communication ban ordering agricultural scientists to lock out local mayors and evade reporters represents a chilling, anti-democratic assault on public transparency. By aggressively muzzling frontline public servants to conceal a massive $394-million laboratory budget cut, Ottawa has stripped Canadians of their fundamental right to know how their own food security is being compromised. This weaponization of government secrecy directly threatens democratic accountability, forcing open inquiry behind locked gates and hiding vital public-good science from the very communities that funded it.
Food Security and Innovation

Silenced by Ottawa: Canada slaps gag orders on scientists

Inside the federal gag orders muzzling Canadian agricultural scientists as an all-party committee demands Ottawa lift directives blocking public servants from speaking out.
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Young farmers are effectively becoming a vanishing group, raising serious questions about who will be left to feed nine million citizens as older operators retire over the coming years.
Climate Entrepreneurship

Speculators Extinguish Young Farmers

Because young operators lack deep cash reserves and extensive credit histories, traditional commercial banking models are choking out fresh blood.
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Community-led agriculture in action: Royal Gala apple seedlings, started indoors in January, are prepared for planting season. This project highlights sustainable food production and local engagement in rural Northwestern Ontario.
Photos and Short Stories

Exploring the Connections: Art and Food Security

From murals to gardens, creative projects are helping younger generations reconnect with sustainable food systems and community care.
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Canada's federal safety nets are fundamentally broken. Growers are actively fleeing government programs like AgriInsurance because the steep premiums routinely exceed their annual profits. For greenhouse operators, crop insurance protections are entirely nonexistent.
Climate Entrepreneurship

Empty Fields, Empty Shelves: Canada’s Agriculture Crisis

Ontario and Quebec alone command over eighty percent of fresh vegetable production volumes across the entire country.
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From Sidewalks to Soil
Food Security and Innovation

From Sidewalks to Soil

Summer is almost here and we are ready to get back to the land for some gardening.
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Jukebox In Exile is the new country music album from Flin Flon singer-songwriter C.C. Trubiak, blending classic country, honky-tonk, Americana and traditional storytelling into a collection of songs inspired by resilience, community and life in Northern Manitoba. Written during and after the 2025 Flin Flon wildfire evacuation, the album draws influence from country music legends including Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings and George Jones. Featuring the singles "Old Country Songs," "Being Rich" and the charting track "Outlaws Meditation," Jukebox In Exile showcases Trubiak's signature songwriting while celebrating small-town life, northern Canadian culture, queer country music and the enduring spirit of Flin Flon. The album is available now on major music streaming platforms.
Manitoba's own C.C. Trubiak's new album "Jukebox in Exile" drops on June 5!

Upcoming Events

The Under $100 Art Show is coming to Winnipeg August 13-16, 2026. Get your tickets now for this amazing event! The Art Spot Canada Under $100 Art Exhibition is coming to Winnipeg, Manitoba this August! ART SPOT was created in 2008 in Calgary to support local emerging artists.  ART SPOT has curated and facilitated over 100 successful art events, including solo exhibitions, group exhibitions, workshops, concerts, body painting competitions, markets, community events and more.

MANITOBA ARTS PROGRAMS

This platform, our Winnipeg, Manitoba hub and programs have been made possible with support from the Manitoba Arts Council Indigenous 360 Program. We gratefully acknowledge their funding and support in making the work we do possible.

Manitoba Arts Council Indigenous 360 Program

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Arts Incubator was seeded and piloted with strategic arts innovation funding from the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse. We thank them for their investment, supporting northern arts capacity building and bringing the arts to life.

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NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO ARTS

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.

Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program
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