Sustainable Northern Food Resources

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Sustainable Northern Food Production Initiatives

• Île-à-la Crosse Fish Plant Inc.
• Northern Wild Fishery (Wollaston Lake, including a retail outlet in Prince Albert)
• J. Waite Fisheries Inc. (Buffalo Narrows)
• Boreal Heartland Herbal Products (Air Ronge)
• La Loche modular farm
• La Loche Community Greenhouse (at Friendship Centre)
• Sakitawak Market Garden (Île-à-la Crosse)
• Beauval grow tunnels
• Black Lake community greenhouse
• Buffalo Narrows Community Garden
• Riese's Canadian Lake Wild Rice (La Ronge)
• Northern Lights Foods (La Ronge)
• Against the Grain WIld Rice (La Ronge)
• "Market gardens in northern Sask. growing prosperity from 'sand'"(CBC article)
• "Greenhouse Project Helps Build Community [Montreal Lake Cree Nation] - APTN"
• "Northern Manitoba First Nation aims to help feed community, fight diabetes with expanded vertical farm project" [Opaskwayak Cree Nation/The Pas/Kelsey, MB.] and related podcast.
• Statements of Provincial Interest (Agriculture and Value Added Agribusiness)

Sustainable Northern Food Security Research & Background

• Saskatchewan Food Security Initiatives Inventory (Food Security Canada)
• Food Security in the North (University of Saskatchewan, College of Agriculture and Bioresources)
• Aboriginal Food Security in Northern Canada (Council of Canadian Academies (CCA))
  
• The Cost of Healthy Eating in Saskatchewan: Saskatchewan Food Costing Task Group 
• Guidelines for Establishing a Northern Greenhouse Project (International Centre for Northern Governance and Development)
• "Caribou Migration Creates Food Security Concerns" (La Ronge Now)
• Saskatchewan Poverty Reduction Strategy
• Northern Healthy Communities Partnership

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