It was still just a dream last January – snow blanketing the ominous derelict buildings, rough treed-in road, and junk about the old Northern Pork site.
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Fort Simpson’s Shelley Empey and her husband could not wait to buy the farm. Actually, the owners of Forest Gate Greenhouse and Gardens bought the land as it came, about two acres in all, and are gradually building the farm themselves.
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Hello from Toronto! It’s the night before the Canadian Food and Drink Summit, and here I am, thinking about what the Northern Farm Training Institute (NFTI) can share with the “key stakeholders in Canada’s food ecosystem” who will be meeting for the next two days.
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Everyone is thinking about hunting this time of year; as Northerners we have a special relationship with wild animals. We help protect their environment and harvest what we need with respect. In our modern context and with our higher population, though, we also know that a local food system in the North could be complemented by raising domestic animals in order to take the pressure off of our wild herds. Now the question is, how do we do it?
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For decades Pat Bobinski and Bruce Green have tended wild rice crops in ponds around Hay River. This year they took Kim Ripati, the operations manager of the Northern Farm Training Institute (NFTI) to experience the harvest, which was a “bumper crop.”
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With spring in the air, a new crop of students is ready to start sowing the seeds of gardening knowledge at the Northern Farm Training Institute in Hay River this week.
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