Media


	June 5, 2025 Morning North with Markus Schwabe: A Sudbury-area seed producer has partnered with World Wildlife Fund Canada to expand native seed production CBC Listen Radio, Morning North
	June 5, 2025 CBC News: Sudbury, Ont., seed producer helping expand national seed production through new partnership Northern Wildflowers is working with World Wildlife Fund Canada’s Seed Orchard Program CBC News by Erika Chorostil
	May 30, 2025 Deux projets de semences indigènes du Nord obtiennent des bourses de financement Radio Canada Interview
	May 29, 2025 WWF-Canada scaling up seed orchard program to address seed shortage across Canada. Northern Wildflowers is one of just 13 recipients across Canada selected to receive support through WWF-Canada’s Seed Orchard Program. World Wildlife Fund Canada for Newswire
	March 21, 2025 Sudbury.com, Northern Ontario Business News: Native seed producers look to grow together with new working group. Sudbury grower and co-founder of Native Seed Producers of Canada to address supply and demand issues for restoration, regreening projects. Article by Lindsay Kelly
	March 20, 2025 Native Meadows: A Powerful Tool For Carbon Sequestration and Canadian Land Reclamation Our Founder and CEO Jenny Fortier authored this article featured in the Spring 2025 issue of Canadian Reclamation, a Canadian Land Reclamation Association publication. The article can be found here on page 38.
	August 2, 2024 CTV News: Community Garden with Tony Ryma Tony Ryma with CTV Northern Ontario visited the Northern Wildflowers Farm to interview Jenny Fortier, CEO of Northern Wildflowers.
	October 18, 2023 CKLU: Quality of Life Fall Special hosted by Hugh Kruzel Hugh Kruzel from Laurentian University's CKLU 96.7 FM radio station in Sudbury, Ontario interviews Jenny Fortier, the owner of Northern Wildflowers.
	July 28, 2023 CBC Listen - Morning North with Markus Schwabe: Sudbury company supports tea homebrewers Jenny Fortier is the owner and founder of Northern Wildflowers, based in Sudbury. They grow and sell native wildflower and heirloom vegetable seeds, including a wild tea seed collection.
	June 1, 2023 Canadian Mining Journal: Restoration: Harnessing technology to improve revegetation outcomes By 2030, it will be necessary to revegetate at least one billion hectares of land worldwide to reach the United Nation’s sustainable development goals. Canada has set an ambitious goal to conserve and revegetate 30% of the country’s land mass by 2030. As global leaders in sustainable resource development, the Canadian mining sector has a unique opportunity to contribute to these shared goals.
	May 25, 2023 Greater Sudbury Chamber Bell Business Excellence Awards: Northern Wildflowers Nomination Video At the end of May, we were honoured to be nominated as a finalist in the Innovation category at the Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce's Annual Business Excellence Awards, presented by Bell. The win went to our very deserving co-finalists at NSS Canada Congrats to their team Many thanks to our friends at Incapture and Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce for a chance to share a bit of what we do with our local business community.
	April 18, 2023 Canadian Mining Magazine: Seed-based Restoration: An Easy Win for the Canadian Mining Sector Seed-based restoration refers to the practice of sewing native plant seeds to restore degraded sites.
	April 10, 2023 Northern Ontario Business: Grant will help seed company expand wildflower line Northern Wildflowers' is the recipient of a $20,000 grant that will help it produce more varieties of wildflowers for sale across the country.
	March 23, 2023 Chatham-Kent This Week: Garden Clippings: Gardeners recognizing value in wildflowers John DeGroots from DeGroot's Nurseries in Sarnia, Ontario, shares information about wildflowers and Northern Wildflowers.
	February 22, 2023 Radio-Canada: Une entreprise sudburoise vends des semences de plantes indigènes Jenny Fortier est interviewée par Sihem Leila Gadi de radio-canada. Elle parle de notre nouvelle gamme canadienne de semences de légumes Cutleaf.
	February 7, 2023 Northern Ontario Business: Sudbury seed provider expanding across Canada A new line of farmer-grown fruit and vegetable seeds launched by Northern Wildflowers has taken off in the eastern part of the country.
	February 7, 2023 Podcast Our Growing Experiment Last week our CEO Jenny had the opportunity to chat with Jordan and Sofia of Our Growing Experiment. From climate change, to pollinator and plant relationships, to the lawn as a cultural construct, to using native grasses for carbon capture to under-population, man did this chat cover a lot of ground . Watch the full podcast episode at the link below or visit Our Growing Experiment on Instagram.
	November 30, 2022 ICI Nord de l'Ontario: L'Ontario n'est pas suffisamment préparé aux urgences environnementales, selon la VG ICI interviewe plusieurs experts, dont notre Jenny Fortier par rapport à la préparation aux urgences environnementales. RADIO
	November 11, 2022 CTV News: Company sells wildflower seeds that help with mine reclamation efforts Northern Wildflowers is growing and distributing perennial wildflower seeds for companies looking for ways to re-green mining sites as part of remediation efforts.
	November 7, 2022 Northern Ontario Business: From mine site to pollinators paradise Jenny Fortier and Northern Wildflowers plying their expertise to help regenerate mine sites.
	October, 2022 Rootree Inc.: RT Foundation: Bring a slice of wildflower paradise to your garden with Northern Wildflowers We’re travelling all the way to Sudbury to say hello to one of our 2021 RT Foundation Award recipients, Northern Wildflowers. The journey of Jenny, founder and CEO of Northern Wildflowers, is anything but boring.
	September 22, 2022 YMCA Northeastern Ontario: YMCA Employer Spotlight YMCA speaks with Jenny Fortier and takes a tour of our Northern Wildflowers farm.
	July 26, 2022 CIM Mining Now: Northern Wildflowers \| Producing Native Seed & Seed Enhancement Technologies Jenny Fortier is a guest speaker on CIM Mining Now's podcast. She talks about how our native wildflower seed is used in the mine site restoration.
	June 18, 2022 YMCA Northeastern Ontario: TD's $25K donation supports regreening at Kivi Park R.L. Beattie Public School students planted more than 1,000 native shrubs and wildflowers provided by Northern Wildflowers at the park.
	March 1, 2022 Northern Ontario Farm Innovation Alliance: How to plan for pollinators in your orchard, flower, and produce gardens from spring to fall In this video, Jenny Fortier of Northern Wildflowers Inc. and Dr Bob Bors of the University of Saskatchewan discuss pollinators' value and practical application in agriculture. This video was originally presented as part of the 2022 Northern Ontario Ag Conference.
	January 19, 2022 CBC Listen - Morning North with Markus Schwabe: Sudbury's seed shopping season starts. Don’t let the snow fool you — it’s the time of the year when gardeners begin scouring seed catalogues to get their desired species for the coming growing season. Jenny Fortier, owner of Northern Wildflowers, shares how the season is going so far.
	November 30, 2021 Rootree Inc: 2021 RT \| Foundation Award Recipients We are so excited to announce that we were the recipients of the 2021 Rootree Foundation Award. Read the whole story from Rootree Inc (link above). Some of the reasons we were selected for the award include: Our ongoing efforts to eliminating plastic from our business operations and packaging Our promise to donate a minimum of 1% of our annual sales to causes supporting urban food security, outdoor classrooms, and re-greening. Our plan to work toward achieving our goal of becoming carbon negative in 2022.
	February 08, 2021 CBC SUDBURY: West Nipissing farmer... As part of this article, CBC Sudbury highlights the expansion of our Native Wildflower seed production efforts to meet increased demands sparked by the surge of new “pandemic gardeners.”
	November 17, 2020 THE SAULT STAR: Wildflower restoration gets... The Sault Star delves into the joint efforts of retired forestry seed researcher, Tom Nolan, and our CEO Jenny Fortier, to help restore Northern native wildflower populations.
	September 28, 2020 CTV NEWS: Wildflower seeds harvested ... CTV Northern Ontario interviews our owner Jenny Fortier about the importance of Native Wildflower Seed production in improving ecological biodiversity in our region and beyond.