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Partner blog feature: Pioneering greenhouse technology to feed communities

As part of the Homegrown Innovation Challenge sponsored by the Weston Family Foundation, AgriTech North has joined forces with Collège Boréal and the Rural Agri-Innovation Network to help create a scalable fresh-food production system that’s both economically viable and sustainable for northern growers, particularly in remote and Indigenous communities. This unique-to-Canada growing space is underpinned by a thermal-management technology and advanced thermal harvesting apparatus.

Collège Boréal is a Bioenterprise Canada Knowledge & Development Partner. Agri-Tech North was the winner of the 2022 Northern Ontario Innovation Challenge run by Bioenterprise Canada. 

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Everything, Everywhere, All at Once - April Hemmes

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Breaks are hard to come by in harvest. That’s why we took the MtoM podcasting equipment to the field to visit on the issues of the day with April Hemmes of Hampton, Iowa. She filled us in on her thoughts on trade negotiations, inputs costs and machinery prices. Then she turned the tables and put Paul behind the steering wheel and started asking her own questions.