Our students discover, create and innovate (and have fun doing it).  Dal Ag students emerge from the Cultiv8 sandbox equipped to have impact on their world.  It matters because we're faced with big problems, and we need to fill our future with creative solvers.

Providing Truro with locally grown produce boxes weekly throughout the summer!

Maintaining a focus toward food security, sustainable economic growth for small and medium sized agriculture, and climate emergency reversal, our living lab enables students, professors, researchers, farmers, industry and communities to address issues in sustainable agribusiness in a collaborative and applied setting.

Cultiv8, Dalhousie’s Agricultural Innovation Sandbox, exists to build the sustainability of businesses in Nova Scotia at the post-secondary level. The development of competencies crucial to innovators is fundamental to building lifelong student knowledge, skills and abilities.