Overview
B.Nature Biotech (Saskatoon, SK) is a biotech company using microbes to revolutionize composting.
What they’re doing: The Prairies are an enormous crop producer for the country, but soil in those western provinces is low in phosphorus, which is needed to increase crop yields. B.Nature is upcycling food waste and Canadian rock phosphate into a phosphate-enhanced biofertilizer and tracking its effectiveness on Cowessess First Nation agricultural test plots.
How will this be used in the real world? Given recent geopolitical impacts on supply chains, especially synthetic fertilizers, B.Nature is looking to remove the need for importing altogether with their natural phosphate-enhanced biofertilizer made in Canada for Canadian farmers.