Sonny Gray thinks the crop of farms popping up across Northern Canada might end up teaching the rest of us lessons vital to the future of the country’s food system. “(Canada) takes for granted that California and Mexico are very nearby, and they’ll always be there,” said the co-founder and CEO of North Star Agriculture. The Yukon-based startup helps northern farmers, First Nations, and community groups establish farms and food processing hubs to meet local food needs. “We focus on exports like canola oil or soy. We’re not really focusing on the fact we’ve got X amount of people who we should be trying to feed.”
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TALOYOAK, NU, Feb. 20, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) On the coast of Aviqtuuq, the Nunavut hamlet of Taloyoak is home to 1,100 residents and one $500,000 Arctic Inspiration Prize for their food sovereignty project. WWF-Canada is proud to have helped support the community in developing this prize-winning proposal as well as other ongoing environmental initiatives.
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, which means our food in Inuktitut, was the winning submission from Taloyoak s Spence Bay Hunter & Trapper Association (the community was formerly called Spence Bay) and seeks to create a country-food economy in the most northern community on Canada s mainland.
Country food is the term for what s caught locally as opposed to expensive store food flown up from the south, but it is becoming increasingly inaccessible due to poverty, climate change and cultural loss.
Food sovereignty project in Taloyoak, NU nabs $500,000 prize
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