An undergraduate biology student at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ont., is doing some research that has caught the attention of local food foragers. Mackenzie Hobbs has started collecting fiddleheads, mushrooms and eventually blueberries for...

Western University researchers are developing a new kind of farm that uses machine-learning algorithms and data analytics to create optimum conditions for growing food anywhere and in any season — producing bigger and better yields while using as little energy and water as possible....