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Strengthening food sovereignty by growing locally.

Green Iglu supports remote and Indigenous communities in improving food security and overall wellness through community-led partnerships across Canada.

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What we offer

1 in 8 households
in Canada

is without reliable access to a sufficient amount of affordable and nutritious food.

But now, changes are happening. We’ve begun a new chapter. We have found methods to put food systems back in the hands of the people.

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Mission

We build greenhouse infrastructure and offer remote communities tailored training that embraces culture, working towards food sovereignty in Canada.

Technology

We aim to be a tool which communities can use to tackle the issue of food insecurity through implementing their very own greenhouse infrastructure and growing technology.

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EDUCATION

An integral part of Green Iglu’s mission of promoting food sovereignty is to offer horticulture and nutrition programming to interested community members and youth, in a way that relates to their culture and surrounding environment.

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Training

Each project is owned and operated by the community, and can be a space to grow fresh food, gather, host classrooms, heal together, and more. To ensure each community can be successful with their food sovereignty goals, we provide customized on-site training.

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Milestone

9

COMMUNITIES

11

JOBS
CREATED

50%

PRICE
REDUCTION

615

STUDENTS
ENGAGED

5

GREENHOUSES

9.5K

SERVINGS OF FOOD
DISTRIBUTED
Summer 2019

56K

VOLUNTEER
HOURS

30

PARTNERS

Message from our Executive Director

Recently, our team here at Green Iglu has received some open and honest feedback from the Northern and Indigenous communities in which we have been invited to work.

There has been an overall message from them that we are in drastic need of time for reflecting, rebuilding and reevaluating how we are demonstrating our Core Values of Community, Integrity, Collaboration and Environment.

We at Green Iglu are grateful that time has been taken to educate us on our mistakes, and we are working to fix them and strive to continuously be better.

Green Iglu is but one tool being used by remote communities to tackle issues of food security, food sovereignty and community wellness. We are actively deconstructing our practices that are rooted in colonialism, and work on moving forward in a positive way.

We have many new and exciting things on the horizon.

We look forward to relaunching this website soon, with content that reflects the truth: that the hard work and project development isn't ours. It comes from the communities we are privileged to serve. Please contact us if you are interested in working with us at info@greeniglu.com.

Respectfully,
Ray Solotki
Executive Director
raygan@greeniglu.com

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