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A vibrant animated image featuring sheep, a tractor, sea, fish, raining clouds, and silhouettes of people cultivating a garden.
Exhibition

Sustainable Agriculture Gallery

Ongoing

This gallery shares stories of research, innovation, and changing practices related to sustainable agriculture.

Throughout Canada, farmers, researchers, and knowledge keepers look for the best ways to farm. Many people have already adopted practices and technologies that are transforming agriculture, which provides us with food, medicine, fibre, and more.

The gallery will grow over the coming years to share more stories along this theme.

Included with museum admission

Funding for this project has been provided in part by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

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Gallery highlights

  • Follow carbon’s journey as it moves through the environment
  • Discover how technologies—such as GPS guidance, drones, and sensors—can help farmers grow their crops in a more sustainable way
  • Observe small and large field drainage artifacts, including a horse-pulled ditching machine from the 1890s
  • Examine an illustration that shows how human activities, including farming, can affect water quality
  • Watch a video of the mighty machines used to install drainage systems today
An display at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum featuring water management. There are interpretive panels and agriculture equipment  on display. Artistic raindrops are hung from the ceiling of the wooden barn.

Water Management

Crops depend on water to grow healthy and strong. But is it possible to have too much water in our fields?

As temperatures rise and rainfall becomes more intense, managing water has become an even more important task for farmers.

This small gallery dives into how and why some farmers in Canada drain their fields to manage water. Explore the technologies farmers have used in the past and what they use today.

A child holds an adult’s hand as he descends green stairs coming from the cab of a green tractor with large tires and yellow rims. The tractor simulator is indoors at the museum.

Farming for the Future

Ever wondered what it’s like to drive a tractor? Climb into a life-sized tractor cab, or drive an immersive accessible cabin at ground level to see how well you can plant a cornfield in a sustainable way.

This highly interactive experience explores the impact of farming on the environment. Learn how Canadian farmers are innovating to improve soil health and crop yields in eco-friendly ways. You’ll discover what makes for healthy soil, why it’s vital to our farms and how new precision agriculture technologies such as GPS and drones are helping farmers to grow crops in a more sustainable way.

Four exhibition panels, with quotes and images of agriculture workers. They are on display in a wooden barn.

Taste the Commitment

Meet the people behind your food. In this gallery, farmers and agricultural business owners explain why they care about the environment and how they put their sustainable environmental practices in action.

These quotations come from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Taste the Commitment video and story series.

A display in the Sustainable Agriculture Gallery featuring panels with images and text about locally grown plant dyes. The exhibit is surrounded by a wooden floor, a small wooden bench, and a large green tractor in the background.

Pembina Fibreshed

Our clothes have a significant impact on the environment.

This photographic gallery showcases the Pembina Fibreshed, a group in southern Manitoba working to produce textiles sustainably, from raising sheep to processing wool.

Through powerful images and quotes, explore how local farmers, artisans, and manufacturers use natural fibres and dyes to create regionally-made products.

In with Innovation gallery

In with Innovation!

Innovators in Canada are making agriculture more sustainable. With passion and creativity, they find new ways to do things.

Each innovator has their own story. We need this diversity of voices and ideas to tackle important problems such as soil loss, farm greenhouse gas emissions, and access to food.

Meet some of Canada’s agricultural innovators! Discover how they are leading the way into a greener and more inclusive future.

Accessibility

The tractor-planting interactive was specifically reimagined for accessibility and underwent extensive user testing before rollout. Highlights include:

  • Ground-level access, offering the same game play for people with mobility needs, and individuals with strollers
  • A game-play tutorial with audio description
  • Haptic feedback through the steering wheel that indicates when the driver has gone off-track
  • Voice commands, directional aids, and sound effects to help players finish the game
  • Clear physical descriptions of the buttons used in playing the game
  • A version in which people can opt in to play with assistance
  • High-contrast visuals and onscreen text

Additional accessibility features in the galleries include:

  • Described audio and braille instructions in Water Management
  • Braille instructions in Taste the Commitment

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