If you live in northern Ontario, you are welcome to attend this workshop free of charge – please use the coupon code FLOWNORTH when filling out the registration form to receive free admission.

All Indigenous growers, land stewards and community members are welcome to attend this workshop free of charge – please use the coupon code INDIG2025 when filling out the registration form to receive free admission.

This webinar is part of the webinar series Exploring a New Enterprise with Ignatius Farm.

Webinar Description:

Local and ecological flowers are a high valuable crop to grow and are more and more popular over the conscious consumers. Join us for this webinar where we discuss how to efficiently and successfully begin growing or add floral crops to your current production system, using ecological growing practices. A recording of this webinar will be available.

Speaker: Theresa Schumilas, Garden Party Flower Farm, St. Agatha Theresa owns Garden Party Flower Farm, a 4 acre specialty cut flower farm outside of Kitchener-Waterloo, where she has farmed organically for over 30 years. She completed her PhD in economic geography at the University of Waterloo in 2014, followed by postdoctoral studies in the digitization of food and farming systems, at the Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems.

This webinar is supported by funding from the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario.