In early October, a group of Ryerson business students completed the construction of a greenhouse in the town of Naujaat, Nunavut. The dome-shaped greenhouse was built to tackle the problem of food insecurity in northern Canada as part of their Growing North project.
“I think this is not just a greenhouse, this is kind of an infrastructure of hope,” said Stefany Nieto, a fourth-year business management student and president of Enactus Ryerson, an organization that takes on innovative and sustainable projects that the other members of Growing North are a part of as well.
Nieto and Ben Canning, co-project managers of Growing North, wanted this project to approach a national issue.