McGill Opens State-of-the-Art Greenhouse and Research Platform at Macdonald Campus McGill University opened a new teaching greenhouse & advanced plant phenotyping facilities at its Macdonald Campus with $23.8M in funding.

McGill just opened a $23.8M teaching greenhouse & plant phenotyping platform.

Climate-resilient crop research. Federal and provincial backing.

This is exactly the kind of infrastructure Canada needs more of.

Great news for the CEA ecosystem.

#CdnAg #McGill

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Deborah Walliser has been building CEA solutions for food-insecure communities for over 25 years!

"Food security should not be a governmental burden alone. It must become a sustainable business model."

That framing is exactly right.

#CEA #FoodSovereignty #FoodSecurity

China directed more than half of its #agtech investment into agricultural biotechnology in 2025. Patient, strategic, state-backed capital with a 20-year horizon.

While the West debated, China built.

#FoodTech isn't a venture bet. It's sovereign infrastructure.

#FoodSecurity #FoodSovereignty

How Blueberries and Kiwi Joined America's Fruit Basket Two case studies exploring novel fruit commercialization

Frieda Kaplan called the kiwi her "18-year overnight success."

Nolan Monaghan's piece on how unfamiliar foods earn their place on grocery shelves is worth your time.

Patience, the right champion, and a good tart apparently.

#FoodHistory #FoodSystems #AgriFood

Cheap Imports Won’t Fix Canada’s Beef Problem Cheap imports may lower prices today, but they risk costing Canada its beef industry tomorrow.

Charlebois makes a point worth sitting with — importing cheaper beef doesn't rebuild a depleted herd.

You can't fast-forward biology.

#FoodPolicy #CdnAg #FoodSecurity

Reality check:

Your doctors leave.

Your nurses leave.

You're landlocked — Canada controls your pipelines.

70% of YOUR people don't want this.

Who does?

The ones who want your oil. Don't hand them the keys.

@therealkeean.bsky.social

Support for Alberta separation reaches five-year high: poll A new poll by Pollara Strategic Insights found that 27 per cent of Albertans would vote now vote to leave Canada.

Alberta separation math:

$130B cost in decade one.

$8.7B/yr in federal health & social transfers — gone.

$75-100B in debt to assume.

70% of Albertans want to stay.

Mark Carney Just Told America to Go Fuck Itself. And He Got a Standing Ovation. 70 cents in every dollar. Zero cents in every fuck given.

"Good on you, Carney. You magnificent bastard."

-- @ifloz.bsky.social

John? Josh will do. 😉

The Warning Is Clear. The Response Is Missing. Farm­ers are already building resilience. Policy and markets still reward short term thinking.

Soil Association report that should be bigger news than it is.

The warning is plain: food security is tied to soil health, and policy still rewards short-term thinking over resilience.

The slow-moving risks are always the ones that sneak up on you.

By: @memypigsandi.bsky.social

#SoilHealth

AgStacker Community Newsletter April Edition

This just in. Science has confirmed that plowing soil is bad for soil.

Haven't farmers been doing regenerative agriculture for generations?

Tim nominates science for a participation trophy. Hard to argue.

Better late than never, I suppose. 🌱

#RegenerativeAgriculture #FoodSystems

Chasing the same shiny object while the world starves… 242 billion.

67 to 1.

That's how much more VC went into AI than all of AgriFoodTech in Q1 2026.

Arlene Dickinson puts it plainly: the capital to feed 10 billion people by 2050 exists. It's just not pointed there.

Hard to read that and not feel it.

#AgriFoodTech #FoodSecurity #CEA #Investment

Norway's Most Expensive Dependency Nobody Talks About Norway Knows Its Salmon Industry Has a Soy Problem. The Answer Is Still Missing.

Norway built the world's most sophisticated salmon industry on someone else's soy. The government has named it a problem. Nobody has named a solution. New piece from @intravision.ca:

#Aquaculture #FoodSovereignty #CEA #Norway

The Sticky Truth About Food Fraud We regulate for safety, but we tolerate deception. That’s the uncomfortable truth behind food fraud in Canada.

Food fraud thrives in long, opaque supply chains. Too many hands. Too little visibility.

Shorter, local, traceable supply chains aren't just better for freshness. They're harder to cheat.

That's a quiet argument for CEA nobody talks about enough.

#FoodSafety #FoodFraud #CEA #FoodSovereignty

Sunrise over Marseille. In the foreground are the city buildings; they are bathed in a tangerine light. The distant massifs remain in shadow; however, from behind is the colours of the morning. These being tangerine, yellow and pink; set against a clear blue sky.

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. 🍊✊🏼
- Abraham Lincoln.

#photography #marseille

Reading about the decline of small farming sent me back to Evan Fraser's Empires of Food. @feeding9billion.bsky.social

Food sovereignty keeps communities fed and resilient.

Local. Year-round. In our own hands.

🤜 @intravision.ca 🏗️ enabling companies to build it.

#FoodSovereignty #futureoffood

Never Confuse Propaganda with Policy The new “Eat Real Food” guidelines

"It’s not the farmers getting most of the food dollar...

I assure you, the industrial food giants and the processors that have had a grip on the American food system since the inception of fake food 125 years ago, are not going to loosen their grip on what you’re eating without a massive fight."

"Canada became a commodity and ingredient country. We handed the commercialization value away to other nations."
— @arlenedickinson.bsky.social

That wasn't just an economic miscalculation. It was a sovereignty one.

The War You Can Feel at Home A war Canadians didn’t choose is quietly rewriting the cost of 2026—from gas and groceries to mortgages and the rituals that hold families together.

This piece by @lenispooner.bsky.social put words to something I've been feeling but couldn't quite name.

The pressure! Not from bad decisions, from good decisions made in a world that quietly changed underneath them.

That reframe matters. Worth a read if you're carrying more than usual right now.

THE PRICE OF WHAT WE DON'T MEASURE Hidden costs, convenient accounting, and a paradox that nobody in the food system particularly wants to resolve

The accounting framework that best justifies what we build is the one we can't use to make the business case.

That's the paradox. I wrote about it.

The economy is sluggish—so why is fast food struggling? Fast food is stuck in the middle—too expensive to be cheap, not good enough to be premium.

Charlebois nails it — grocery is beating fast food. But what's winning on those shelves? Increasingly, vertical farm greens. Local, ready to eat, getting affordable.

Now imagine those packs with protein added. A whole meal.

The shift to retail is real. The question is what retail becomes next.

Large-scale Soil Amendment: Surveying | Site Selection | Preparation | Swales Soil amendment strategy for improving 3 acres of low-quality soil, enough space to grow sufficient food to feed 100 people within 1 year. It discusses surveying, site selection, and soil preparation,…

How valuable is soil, really? 🌱

Healthy soil can transform land into abundant food systems. This open-source strategy shows how 3 acres of low-quality soil could feed 100 people within a year.

Learn more: buff.ly/xasZoqp

#onecommunity #HighestGoodforAll #SoilHealth #RegenerativeAgriculture

The idea of “hidden costs” shows up clearly in how we calculate food miles.
We price the fuel burned in transport
but not the system required to produce that fuel.

Extraction.
Refining.
Infrastructure.

So even our cost models are partial.

What looks like cheap food is often just cost shifting.

Environmental impact.
Water use.
Health effects.

The system isn’t low-cost, it’s just not fully accounted for.

#FoodSecurity #Systems #Economics

Solar panels being set up by 3 men

China donates 5,000 solar energy systems to Cuba, government prioritizing hospitals!

Beyond the hospital network, which includes more than 280 hospitals and 430 clinics, the project will also reach some 2,000 homes in isolated rural areas.

we're supposed to believe the Trump administration has spent more than a year doing a mass deportation of the worst of the worst criminals, but also there are sleeper cells of undocumented Iranians in the country that constitute a grave national security threat. the math ain't mathing.

Found this Pileated Woodpecker hard at work during my walk in the woods this afternoon. #wildlife #birds

You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything?

That’s how the internet was.