“Today is Canada’s Agriculture Day, celebrating a critical industry that touches everyone’s lives. In the Northwest Territories (NWT), agriculture is literally and figuratively a growing sector, with initiatives and projects in every region across the territory."
This Program provides funding for commercial producers, harvesters and processors of food in the NWT, with the goal of building the commercial food production and processing sectors and increasing the availability of local food to northern consumers.
Tomorrow is Canadian Agriculture Day. It is a day to showcase all the amazing things happening in Canada’s agriculture industry and to increase consumer awareness to where food comes from and the people who produce it.
A new funding initiative will enable commercial agriculture producers in the Northwest Territories to make larger investments in their operations.
In Yellowknife, two unique agriculture-based businesses are leveraging their skills, specialities and strengths for a unique NWT-spin on frozen meals.
Thanks to a greenhouse business in Fort Smith, locals can grow their own tomatoes, cucumbers, squash and even pumpkins within the NWT’s growing season. Hilary Turko, the heart and mind behind the business, Roots and Ruminants, is now entering her fourth growing season after purchasing the 30-year-old business.
Watching kids in Tuktoyaktuk gobble up peas from their community greenhouse while the summer snow fell was something Ray Solotki will never forget. She is the Executive Director of the Inuvik Community Greenhouse and over the last five growing seasons, has spent her time with her hands in the dirt across the Beaufort Delta Region.
Since 2016 Pam Noland, of the Peel River Garden Society in Aklavik, has been keeping her hands dirty teaching residents how to grow produce.
The Egg Farmers of Canada Conference is currently underway in Yellowknife this week with a jam packed schedule of experiences. With boat tours, golf, art walks, aurora viewing and fish fries there are many opportunities for the delegates to get a taste of the North.
Camping is the perfect way for people to disconnect from technology and take a break from the modern world. But cultural camps offer campers a chance to connect or reconnect — to Indigenous cultures, elders and to the land.
