Fresh, affordable fruits and vegetables can be hard to find the more remote a community is because of the distances needed to reach a destination. It makes it hard for people to sometimes get the nutrition needed to live a healthy lifestyle.
In an effort to fight food insecurity and bring fresh produce to remote communities, igloo-shaped greenhouses are popping up across the country.
“People want what is fresh, what is local, what is healthy, what they know was put into it, they created the fertilizer and soil themselves. That’s what people want to eat,” says Raygan Solotki, executive director of Green Iglu.
Green Iglu originally began as a student project at the Toronto Metropolitan University (previously known as Ryerson University) in 2015 to build the geodesic domes in Nunavut. It quickly became a country-wide initiative with charity status because “you can’t make food security a business; it has to be not-for-profit or you’ll be struggling all the time,” says Solotki, who became the executive director in 2021.
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