The final episode of Season 2 of the Frontier Entrepreneurship Podcast brings us to Dryden in Northwestern Ontario where we meet Benjamin Feagin Jr., Co-Founder & CEO of a social enterprise that is tackling the challenge of food security through advancements in hydroponics. Ben introduces us to AgriTech North and challenges our assumptions about organic food systems, sustainability and workforce development, and how indoor agriculture should be tackled in rural and remote communities. In conversation with Frontier co-hosts Braden Kemp (Fundspoke) and Tracy Morningstar (CCIB), Ben explains why we should decentralize R&D infrastructure, while carefully timing and managing strategic investments in innovation.

• On CEA- Controlled Environment Agriculture (UNDP)
• Canadian Organic Standards (Government of Canada)
• Canada Organic vs. USDA Organic – The Organic Council of Ontario
• City of Dryden, Ontario, Canada
• Grand Council - Treaty 3 and The Northwestern Ontario Métis Community.

The Executive Producer of the Frontier Entrepreneurship Podcast is Robert Washburn. Special thanks to Daniela Scoppa, Heather Cannings and John Hayden. This project is made possible with the support of FedDev Ontario and the Government of Canada.

For more information on our podcast, including co-host biographies, click here.

The Canadian Council for Indigenous Business (CCIB) builds bridges between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, businesses and communities through diverse programming, providing tools, training, network building, major awards, and national events.

How do you stop frost formation with bacteria? In this latest episode of Nventure's Frontier Entrepreneurship Podcast, we dive into more mind-bending breakthroughs in Canadian agricultural biotech. Join us for a fascinating conversation with Dr. Collin Juurakko, PhD, Founder and CEO of Advanced Agriscience, as co-hosts Braden Kemp and Tracy Morningstar explore the origins and applications of biological frost disruption and how it could potentially stabilize vast swathes of global agriculture.

Resources and links

• Background study on Bacterial Ice Nucleation: A Factor in Frost Injury to Plants (1982)
• Science: Fighting the Biotech Wars (Leon Jaroff, TIME, 1986)
• Deborah Henderson (Director, Institute for Sustainable Agriculture at
• Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Langley, British Columbia)
• Virginia Walker’s Lab at Queen’s University (Department of Biology)
• Steve Lindow (University of California, Berkeley – Plant and Microbial Biology)
• Entrepreneurs First start-up accelerator (Toronto)
• Bioenterprise Innovation Advisors (including Mike Manion)
• Sydenham, Ontario (Wikipedia)
• B Corp certification
• Cryopreservation

The Executive Producer of the Frontier Entrepreneurship Podcast is Robert Washburn. Special thanks to Daniela Scoppa, Heather Cannings and John Hayden. For more information on our podcast, including co-host biographies, click here.

Bioenterprise is Canada’s engine for food and agricultural technologies, a vibrant community of entrepreneurs, researchers, accelerators, and partners committed to driving industrial innovation. Learn more at bioenterprise.ca.

Data, predictive analytics, dynamic communications and digital twins make up the virtual landscape of modern dairy farms. Bringing it all together into a comprehensive platform for some of the largest cattle operations in the world is veterinarian, computer engineer and entrepreneur, Shari van de Pol, polymath and Founder of CATTLEytics. “Dairy farmers we work with are some of the most incredible, innovative, understanding, hard-working people out there, and that’s one of the reasons I love doing what I do,” Shari says. In this episode of the Frontier Entrepreneurship Podcast, co-hosts Braden Kemp and Tracy Morningstar explore how Shari and her team successfully introduce advanced technologies into the dairy industry.

The Executive Producer of the Frontier Entrepreneurship Podcast is Robert Washburn. Special thanks to Daniela Scoppa, Heather Cannings and John Hayden. For more information on our podcast, including co-host biographies, click here.

DELIA is Nventure’s Women Entrepreneurship Loan Fund backing women-owned ventures across Canada. Visit our website to learn more and apply today.