Zine with Blue Text in all caps: Future Visions of reimagined systems." Various colourful seed packs spill out of a yellow cloth bag.

Future Visions of Reimagined Systems

Riso printed zine, cotton bag dyed with marigold flowers or fireweed leaves (2025 season), 14 seed packs (2026) [limited to 40, within Canada only]

We are in no way going to solve the ongoing problems of food inflation and insecurity by growing food for ourselves on our own, but we need to start imagining new alternatives for moving forward. Diving into the numbers of vegetable imports and exports in Canada, this project hopes to share information and inspire some imagining. Included are seeds selected within the context of Canada’s overall vegetable imports: collectively, they represent 43.4% of all field vegetable imports and 92.1% of all greenhouse vegetable importsinto the country (2024). My hope is that planting, growing, and caring for these seeds will offer a chance to learn more about the vegetables we pick up at the grocery store while also inspiring new ideas and ways to imagine how we might shift the situation on a collective scale. This project hopes that we can learn and practice together as a way to reimagine these systems that have a profound impact on our daily lives. 

Please consider sharing some of your seeds with others, and/or planting them again next year. Check out more information, resources, and tips.

For links to resources cited in zine, see bottom of this page.

This project was made as part of a larger research project supported by a research/creation grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. Printed by Procrastination Press in Edmonton!

Seeds included with this zine:

  • Peppers (choice of variety)
  • Tomatoes (choice of variety)
  • Lettuce mix (leafy)
  • Walking Onion
  • Beans mix
  • Pumpkin (sugar pie)
  • Radish mix
  • Thai basil or basil mix (limited)
  • Marigold
  • Calendula (Pot Marigold)
  • Chamomile
  • Dill
  • Chives
  • Cilantro (limited)

Sign up using the form below to receive a Future Visions kit and to select your specific varieties of seeds. Limited to 40. Within Canada only, please.

Future Visions of Reimagined Systems (2026)

Please let me know more about the seeds you would like to receive as a participant in this project.

MM slash DD slash YYYY
Name
Address
Within Canada only, please! This will only be used to send you your seeds and not published as part of this project.
Please note the city, territory, treaty or other descriptor for where you growing plants will be located.
this will remain private and used only to communicate with you directly.
Peppers (select 1 variety)
please select only 1, if you’d like more peppers you can request them via the main project page.
Tomatoes (select 1 variety)
please select only 1, if you’d like more tomatoes you can request them via the main project page.
Let me know of anything else I should consider while prepping your seeds.

Resources cited in zine:

Government of Canada, Consumer Price Index, September 2025.

In Canadian politics, a new world order can’t overshadow the price of groceries, Aaron Wherry, CBC News, Jan 26, 2026.

IT’S ALL ABOUT LETTUCE, C. Battle, 2022, ongoing.

New Data on Continued Record Profits in Canadian Food Retail, Jim Stanford, Centre for Future Work, December 10, 2023.

Canada’s new Grocery Code of Conduct is here, but don’t expect any instant price drops, Michael von Massow, The Conversation, January 26, 2026.

Government of Canada, Statistical Overview of the Canadian Field Vegetable Industry, 2024.

Government of Canada, Statistical Overview of the Canadian Greenhouse Vegetable and Mushroom Industry, 2024.