Canada’s Largest Indigenous Plant Nursery Takes Root in the Kootenays
October 16, 2025 | 1 min to read
Nupqu Resource Limited Partnership in Cranbrook, British Columbia, has launched Canada’s largest Indigenous-owned plant nursery to reclaim former mine and industrial sites by growing native species. Opened Oct. 1 on Aq'am First Nation land, the facility houses eight greenhouses cultivating regional plants like fireweed, cottonwood, balsamroot, and sitka alder for site restoration and distribution to non-profits.
Nupqu Resource Limited Partnership has launched a project to help repopulate industrialized and developed areas with native plants
A B.C Indigenous company is trailblazing a new kind of science to help reclaim former industrialized sites with native plants.
Nupqu Resource Limited Partnership, based out of Cranbrook B.C, recently launched the largest Indigenous-owned plant nursery in Canada, focused on growing native plants to help repopulate former mine sites and produce that can be distributed to non-profits.
Nupqu unveiled the project on Oct. 1, and invited the public to view the space, located on Aq’am First Nation, just outside Cranbrook. There are currently eight greenhouses on the property housing various species of plants, grasses and shrubs that are native to the East Kootenay region of B.C., including fireweed, cottonwood, balsamroot, and sitka alder.
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