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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.

The Gardener’s Ethos: To Tend the Garden.
Food Security and Innovation

The Gardener’s Ethos: To Tend the Garden.

"Sustainability" has become a hollow term, often co-opted to mean simply maintaining the status quo or slightly reducing our negative impact.
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Fresh from the orchard—our northwestern Ontario apples are the sweetest way to close out the summer at the Land Lab.
Food Security and Innovation

Next stop: Apple Pie

The taste of the season—locally-grown apples marking the end of a busy, fruitful summer.
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Qunguliit
Photos and Short Stories

Qunguliit

A quiet pleasure, picking qunguliit connects us to the land and its history.
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Art you can eat: A taste of summer straight from the garden. This rhubarb and berry crisp is a perfect representation of the season's bounty.
Sustainable Agriculture

Art you can eat …

Ready for "Art You can Eat"? This rhubarb and berry crisp recipe is a masterpiece of seasonal flavors.
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Tomato Time
Food Security and Innovation

Tomato Time

It feels like just a few weeks ago, the tomato plants were barely growing.
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The delicate yellow flowers of dill, promising fresh flavour. Photo: Jamie Bell
Photos and Short Stories

Dill’s Freshness

Fresh Dill, a fragrant herb, adds a bright, distinctive flavour to Manitoba and Ontario kitchens.
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It's that time of summer! We're starting to see the blueberries ripe enough for picking. Photo: Jamie Bell
Food Security and Innovation

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.
Food Security and Innovation

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!
Food Security and Innovation

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.
Photos and Short Stories

Saskatoon Season Beckons

Saskatoon berries are plumping up. Discover this versatile Canadian fruit, perfect for picking.
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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" dropped on June 5! Check it out today!

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.

WINNIPEG 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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