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For 15 years, ɬ﷬ dining halls have been serving up fresh, local produce grown by students at Macdonald Campus as part of their agricultural and environmental sciences programs. Last year alone, 3.4 tons of tomatoes and almost 2 tons of onions ended up on students' plates thanks to the ɬ﷬ Feeding ɬ﷬ initiative.

Classified as: david wees
Published on: 21 Jul 2025

In her presentation at a scientific symposium hosted by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Sherbrooke Research and Development Centre in June, ɬ﷬ Ph.D. candidate Anjaly Paul highlighted the potential for Canadian farms to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions while generating renewable energy, by converting agricultural waste into biogas.

Classified as: Idaresit Ekaette
Published on: 21 Jul 2025

Anais MedieuAnaïs Médieu, a ɬ﷬ postdoctoral researcher working in Natural Resource Sciences Professor Kyle Elliott's lab, has been awarded a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project on the interactive effects of climate change and plastic contamination on Arctic seabirds.

Classified as: Kyle Elliott
Published on: 21 Jul 2025

ɬ﷬ PhD candidate Alexandra Langwieder works with James Bay Indigenous communities to better understand polar bears

Classified as: Murray Humphries
Published on: 17 Jul 2025

In Ontario, a fully automated greenhouse allows lettuce to be grown and harvested with virtually no human intervention—a first in Canada.

Haven Greens had to invest $50 million to make it happen. But the result is striking: the company can operate with just five employees in the greenhouse, whereas it would have required more than 100 pickers using the traditional method.

Classified as: Pascal Thériault
Published on: 17 Jul 2025

Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Que., residents have a new spot to do their groceries. After the suburb's only grocery store closed for the second time, B Factory, a locally owned beeswax products shop that had been on the verge of bankruptcy, expanded its space to include a small grocery section called Mon Marché Local.

Classified as: Daiva Nielsen
Published on: 17 Jul 2025

As part of the Nkabom Collaborative supported by the Mastercard Foundation, ɬ﷬ has joined forces with Ghanaian institutions in a bold initiative to foster youth leadership and transform the agrifood ecosystem in Ghana and beyond.

Classified as: Anja Geitmann
Published on: 17 Jul 2025

If you've been noticing white fluff floating around Montreal lately, you're not the only one. Those are seeds from the Eastern Cottonwood tree and it's the season that they're spreading through the air. 

spoke to David Wees, Faculty Lecturer and Assistant Director of the Farm Management and Technology Program at ɬ﷬, to find out more.

Classified as: david wees
Published on: 17 Jul 2025

ɬ﷬ Bioresource Engineering Professor Michael Ngadi called for urgent action to address the challenges facing stallholder farmers in Nigeria at a recent public lecture at the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike (MOUAU).

A specialist in developing advanced emerging technologies for monitoring and controlling agrifood processing systems, he discussed the critical role that smallholder farmers and processors play in global food systems, particularly in developing and transition countries.

Classified as: Michael Ngadi
Published on: 17 Jul 2025

The athlete began this sport at ɬ﷬, the only school in Quebec to offer the opportunity to do logging as a sport.

Stéphanie Naud, FMT’14, BSc(AgEnvSc)’17, is representing Canada at the World Timber Sports Championships in Wisconsin from July 16–19.

Classified as: Lumberjills
Published on: 17 Jul 2025

Farmers who exchanged text messages with peers were significantly more likely to adopt sustainable agricultural practices, highlighting the power of peer learning in digital formats, a new co-authored by ɬ﷬ Professor Aurélie Harou found.

Published on: 16 Jul 2025

Congratulations to two plant science students in Professor Mehran Dastmalchi's lab, who received awards for their presentations at two recent conferences!

Classified as: Mehran Dastmalchi
Published on: 30 Jun 2025

In a recent article for their What's In My Cart? series, , a beekeeper based in Delta, B.C. She says she was hooked on bees the first time her hands entered a hive, when she was only 21 and enrolled in agricultural studies at ɬ﷬’s Macdonald Campus, near her hometown of Montreal.

Published on: 30 Jun 2025

From lab benches to local watersheds, ɬ﷬ researchers are investigating some of today's most pressing water challenges.

Several exciting projects involving researchers in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (AES) were selected for seed funding through two initiatives: the Brace Water Innovation Seed Grants and the Brace Water Centre and CentrEau Project Seed Fund Program.

Classified as: Jan Adamowski, Zhiming Qi, Sébastien Faucher, Martin Filion, Niladri Basu
Published on: 30 Jun 2025

Earlier this month, the ɬ﷬ Health Centre (MUHC) marked National Indigenous Peoples Day (June 21) with a special Indigenous-inspired cafeteria meal, featuring baked salmon, wild rice salad, and blueberry bannock.

Classified as: Dietetics
Published on: 30 Jun 2025

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