This greenhouse in a shipping container in Nunavut is powered by wind and solar energy | CBC News

'It was so fresh, not like what we get in the store. Sometimes when we get [lettuce] in the stores it is almost rotten. The ones we harvested are really fresh and tasty. One elderly lady even danced with joy when she got her lettuce.' | CBCNorth

These sea cans in Gjoa Haven are actually a new research station and grow pod used for growing vegetables. The solar and wind powered project is called Naurvik, which means, the growing place.

The two women are technicians, or guardians, for a new wind and solar powered greenhouse that the Kitikmeot community named "Naurvik." That means "the growing place" in Inuinnaqtun. Naurvik technician Betty Kogvik harvests the first lettuce grown in the sea can greenhouse in Gjoa Haven. In the spring, Sammy says he wants to travel to Taloyoak to help that community start its own version of the Naurvik grow pod.

The Arctic Research Foundation is calling its new Naurvik greenhouse project in Gjoa Haven the most northern agriculture pod to be powered by wind and solar electricity.

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