Our Story

We supply native plants to organizations for ecological restoration purposes and to individuals who are looking to help pollinators and expand their gardens to include our beautiful native species. We follow accepted guidelines for sustainable seed collection and we grow our plants without the use of chemical fertilizers or pesticides. We are located near Wakefield, Quebec. We collected the majority of our seeds from Ottawa and the surrounding area and have selected some species from Central and Southern Ontario that we think provide excellent value for local wildlife, pollinators, and gardens. We currently produce plugs and potted stock. We will be adding new species each year and we plan to eventually sell native seed as well.

Solidago Farm is a partnership between Elizabeth Latimer and Matthew Post. We met in 2016 studying Ecosystem Restoration at Niagara College. We have worked on prairie restoration projects for the Nature Conservancy of Canada and the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority where we fell in love with many of the plants we are selling today. From our studies and job experience it became clear to us that the lack of locally sourced native plant material was a hindrance to ecological restoration efforts and to people who want to naturalize their properties or gardens with native species.

We believe in the power of native plants and the ecological services they provide. From erosion control, flood mitigation, protecting pollinator populations, improving soil quality, carbon sequestration, wildlife habitat, food sources, air quality, water quality, pollution and contaminate control. We would like to bring native plants back to as many underused areas as possible, whether it is urban, suburban, rural, agricultural, or cottage country. We would like to see native plants in gardens, lawns, planter boxes, roadsides, rooftops, shorelines, hydro corridors, edges of farm fields, trails and everything in between.