Proudly supporting women and women-owned businesses
At Foodland, we are committed to making diversity, equity and inclusion part of everything we do. Our local supplier program is a natural extension of this journey towards building an inclusive culture. By supporting women entrepreneurs to grow and scale their businesses, we are bringing greater diversity to our stores, our customers and in helping support the communities we serve. In addition to supporting local suppliers, we also support our franchisee network and recognize the amazing owners that work hard every day to improve their communities. Meet some of the inspirational female store owners behind your local Foodland.
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Atlantic Vendors
Wabanaki Maple
Wabanaki Maple is a unique maple syrup company, 100% Indigenous female-owned and located in Neqotkuk (Tobique) First Nation, NB. We present a twist on traditional maple with our signature line of barrel aged and infused maple syrup products and strive to reconnect people and communities to the traditional history of maple syrup, while sharing our rich and memorable flavour of our products.
AtlanTick Repellent
AtlanTick was created by Lisa Learning out of a mother's desire to protect her sons from ticks in an environment where safe repellents were lacking. Recognizing a market gap, Lisa developed AtlanTick to provide effective, natural protection without compromising safety. What began as a solution for her family has become a trusted name for families seeking safe, reliable tick repellents
Benjamin Bridge
Benjamin Bridge has been a trailblazing force in Canadian winemaking for 25 years. Every day, its close-knit team—comprised of 85% women in leadership roles—works passionately to ensure each product embodies the farm winery's ethos for vibrant rural communities, ecological resilience, and a commitment to quality. As of 2024, Benjamin Bridge is proudly B Corp Certified.
Yoggu - Jade Herman
Jade is a foodie and lover of all things natural living. Inspired by her time living in France, Yoggu! Is a high quality, creamy coconut yogurt. It is a fermented coconut yogurt made with billions of live probiotics. Yoggu! Is on a mission to raise the vibration in food by creating products that are nourishing and great tasting!
Margaret Coons - Nuts for Cheese
Margaret Coons is the Founder & CEO of Nuts For Cheese, a market leader in artisan, organic, plant-based dairy manufacturing. Vegan from an early age, Margaret developed a passion for plant-based cuisine becoming a vegan chef and experimenting with nuts and seeds to create deliciously creamy dairy-free cheeses. Since launching at a farmer’s market in 2015, Nuts For Cheese™ has enjoyed explosive growth across Canada and the United States with its award-winning artisanal and versatile dairy-free products. Today, Nuts For Cheese™ employs 35+ people, operating from a 25,000 square foot manufacturing facility in London, Ontario. Nuts For Cheese™ continues to scale year-over-year with a mission to create delicious, dairy-free and vegan cheese for cheese lovers everywhere.
Ontario Vendors
Abokichi - Fumixer Tsukamoto
Abokichi’s story began when Abokichi co-founder Jess first encountered onigiri (Japanese rice balls) as a healthy and convenient snack or meal while living in Tokyo. Today they sell a variety of miso-based products, matcha, and other Japan-inspired products.
Cherry Lane- Jen Smith
10th Generation Create a product that is local and that our passion for farming can be noticed in each bottle of concentrate that you purchase. Each bottle is still hand bottled here on the farm to ensure the highest quality of product. All cherries harvested are used for our concentrate, so there is no waste.
La Presserie - Sharon Rotzang
The La Presserie brand is inspired by the cuisine of South of France, where artisanal craftsmanship, high-quality, sophisticated, and delicious foods are celebrated with a true passion. The artisanal foods and beverages we create, truly set the benchmark for delicious taste and nutrition. From cold pressed juices, smoothies, dressings, cocktail mixers, and soups, we are always working towards new and exciting launches that our customers will love.
La Presserie’s Difference:
- Super premium artisanal quality
- A strong commitment to product innovation
- World class professional R&D team
- Our proprietary Cold Pressed & Fresh-Frozen technologies
- A culture of food safety, SQF certified
- State-of-the-art 50,000 sq. ft. plant in Scarborough, ON.
- The latest QA & processing equipment
Oat&Mill - Candace Tierney
At Oat & Mill, we handcraft delicious vegan ice cream from scratch in our own facility. Every bite reflects the love and care we put into our products, ensuring a perfect blend of indulgence, quality and sustainability.
Oat & Mill is a dairy free parlour-style ice cream made with lucsious oat cream. So good you won't see it coming! Oat & Mill is 100% women founded and partners with local businesses to create the best ice cream you'll ever dare to try while practicing sustainability through even our plastic-free packaging.
From Chocolate Peanut Butter and Rocky Road Fudge Brownie to Mint Chocolate Chip, as well as fun seasonal flavors, we have something for everyone! We’ve also introduced bars in exciting flavors like Strawberry, Chocolate Hazelnut, and Salted Caramel!
Yoggu - Jade Herman
Jade is a foodie and lover of all things natural living. Inspired by her time living in France, Yoggu! Is a high quality, creamy coconut yogurt. It is a fermented coconut yogurt made with billions of live probiotics. Yoggu! Is on a mission to raise the vibration in food by creating products that are nourishing and great tasting!
Nuts for Cheese - Margaret Coons
Margaret Coons is the Founder & CEO of Nuts For Cheese, a market leader in artisan, organic, plant-based dairy manufacturing. Vegan from an early age, Margaret developed a passion for plant-based cuisine becoming a vegan chef and experimenting with nuts and seeds to create deliciously creamy dairy-free cheeses. Since launching at a farmer’s market in 2015, Nuts For Cheese™ has enjoyed explosive growth across Canada and the United States with its award-winning artisanal and versatile dairy-free products. Today, Nuts For Cheese™ employs 35+ people, operating from a 25,000 square foot manufacturing facility in London, Ontario. Nuts For Cheese™ continues to scale year-over-year with a mission to create delicious, dairy-free and vegan cheese for cheese lovers everywhere.
Store Owners
Sherri Black from Coldwater, Ontario
With over 33 years at Foodland, Sherri expresses her passion for her community by supporting local charities, schools, sports teams, and food banks. She also mentors young women, showing that there is no limit to what you can achieve. She leads by example and is truly a local legend.
Karine Boucher from Russell, Ontario
Karine has impacted her community by supporting local charities and providing a safe, inclusive environment for her customers and staff. Her positive outlook radiates throughout her store by providing customers with a personalized experience and showing younger generations that women can succeed in any role.
Toby Grieg from Elliot Lake, Ontario
Toby has worked tirelessly for her community not only by supporting non-profits and small businesses but by being an active and engaging leader. Toby wants to encourage and empower the upcoming generations to reach their goals. To her, that’s what being a female leader is all about.
Monica Temmler from Beeton, Ontario
Monica, our franchisee of 24 years at Beeton Foodland, is proud to serve her community by constantly going above and beyond to put her customers and staff’s needs first. She is a proud supporter of local businesses, the local food bank, local sports teams, and Matthews House Hospice. To Monica, being a leader means to lead by example and be respectful. She hopes to inspire more young women to achieve their goals and work towards their dreams. Monica loves what she does, the people she works with and the community she serves.
Beth Perry from Petitcodiac, New Brunswick
Always ready to donate her time, Beth supports community initiatives and families in need. Local has always been a pillar in her everyday operations and that is proudly on display in a mural painted by a local artist. With previous experience in Human Resources, Beth empowers women through leadership, expressing empathy and embracing diversity.
Rhonda Victor from Charlottetown, PEI
Rhonda’s passion for the community is her greatest motivator. She makes sure to stock her shelves with products created and sold by locals. Rhonda believes in creating a friendly atmosphere for staff and customers, further tying her store to the community.
Tina Woodfine from Torbay, Newfoundland
Tina is a big supporter of her community by donating to food banks, sports teams, as well as purchasing from local farmers and businesses. Tina is thankful to have many strong independent women on her team and encourages them through reminders of how they can achieve anything they set their minds to.
Susan Ott from Charles Forest, Nova Scotia
Throughout the pandemic, Susan put her community first by offering delivery to locals in isolation. She continues to go above and beyond in her day-to-day by seeking out local products, actively listening to staff and customers and continuing to make a positive impact in the community she loves dearly.
Brittany Pomeroy from Whycocomagh, Nova Scotia
Brittany prides herself on making her customers feel welcome and supporting the community she serves. Leading by example, she encourages her teammates to engage in day-to-day positivity so members and neighbouring communities can shop in an atmosphere that feels like home.
Vendors
Leigh MacFarlane of The Soap Co of Nova Scotia
Made with salt water from our pristine Eastern Shore, these plasticfree bars are designed for shampoo, shave and soap! Leigh has carefully created products for folks with scent and/or chemical sensitivities; all are handmade in small batches with high quality natural ingredients that are gluten-free, nut-free, vegan and nonlatex allergy reactive.
Karen Campbell of Pure Raw Pet Food
Karen Campbell’s love of pets led to the development of Pure Raw Pet Food. After years of research and thousands of tail wags, Pure Raw has entered the market. “Bringing this brand to the public is one of my proudest moments,” says Karen. “I believe in natural nutrition, keeping it local, and the power of community.”
Carina Lin of Moose Bell Candy
Moose Bell Products (Pollipop) was founded in 2016 after Yuying and Carina visited a maple forest and were touched by the lifelong dream of a forest keeper just wanting a new truck. The experience opened their eyes to the struggles maple farmers face despite multiple generations devoting a lot of passion to the land. Farmers deserve better so they decided to use locally sourced ingredients such as Grade A maple syrup to produce value added products with New Brunswick characteristics to people across Canada and the world.
Courtney Orser of Falavory Soup Seasoning Blends
A mother of three, Courtney always felt rushed in the kitchen and unable to prepare the kind of healthy, flavourful meals she could be proud to serve. That’s why she developed her “soups by you” blends. Courtney has perfected the spice profile, so all you have to do is add your family’s favourite protein and produce, and you have a homemade family meal, made easy.
Tracy Bell of Millenia Tea
Not just another tea, Millennia Tea is a fresh-leaved tea that aims to fuel wellness and fight illness. Tracy discovered that by washing and flash-freezing organic tea leaves to maximize the tea’s nutritional properties, their product contained 5X more antioxidants than traditional dried green teas. This innovative frozen product is sold as cubes or chopped leaves to be used as a traditional steeped tea, blended in smoothies, or used in sauces or soups.
Shikha Sobti of Sai Krishna Foods
Shikha Sobti, owner and co-founder of Sai Krishna Foods, is the wholesale manufacturer and distributor of authentic handmade Samosas. Sai Krishna Foods has recently won ‘Newcomer Entrepreneur’ 2021 Award by Moncton Chamber of Commerce. Congrats Shikha and team!
