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We were delighted to welcome a great turnout of community members and sector stakeholders to this year’s What’s Growin’ On? event, where we focused on how innovation for the commercial greenhouse sector is helping to secure Canada’s food supply.
Guests toured four locations across our campus, meeting Vineland experts and taking part in interactive presentations and demonstrations. Along the way, attendees discovered how greenhouses are supporting food security, the technologies supporting greenhouse production, how to identify and manage pests, and how greenhouse waste can be repurposed and diverted from landfill.
There was a fantastic energy throughout the evening, with thoughtful questions and lively conversations at every stop. Thank you to everyone who joined us and helped make the event such a success.
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How Greenhouses are Securing Food Supply
Sarah Papp MSc., Research Scientist, demonstrates how growing highwire crops in commercial greenhouses is supporting food access.
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The Technology that Makes Greenhouses Viable
Dan Bath, PhD, Research Scientist, discusses and demonstrates how technologies are supporting productivity in the greenhouse for the short- and long-term.
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Identifying and Managing Pests in the Greenhouse Sector
Rose Buitenhuis, PhD, Director, led an interactive pest identification session, and explained how, Vineland’s research is supporting integrated pest management (IPM) in the greenhouse sector.
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Exploring Opportunities to Repurpose Greenhouse Waste
In Vineland’s TreeCulture Research Park, Research Scientist Jason Henry, MSc, presented how Vineland is collaborating with Grodan through a Greenbelt Foundation-funded project to explore whether greenhouse by-products can be repurposed as soil amendments that support soil health and improve crop production.