Fundraising site for Nunavut greenhouse draws dollars, encouragement and advice
QIKIQTARJUAQ, Nunavut — A teacher in Nunavut who turned to crowdfunding for a modest greenhouse to grow vegetables with his students is revising his plans after Canadians responded with a bumper crop of donations.
Adam Malcolm originally asked for $4,500 on GoFundMe for a greenhouse about the size of a garden shed to grow fresh produce in Qikiqtarjuaq, but following news reports about his project last month, more than four times that amount has been pledged.
A welding equipment company, Weldcor, has even paid for two larger greenhouses, which Malcolm said have made it as far as Iqaluit and are awaiting a flight to the Inuksuit School in the remote Baffin Island community.
“A lot of planes come but the weather is not good, so they get turned around and never do land, and more things get backed up in cargo in Iqaluit,” Malcolm explained in an interview with The Canadian Press about the realities of transport in the North.