Founded 2016
Red is for the ones who died. Teal is for the ones still fighting.
And everyone standing in it with them.
Why teal?
Teal is for PTSD awareness — and every piece in this shop exists so a woman who is certain she is the only one can spot it on you across a parking lot and know she isn't.
That's the whole point of a symbol. You don't have to say anything. She sees it, and she knows.
Ours is the real flower, not the pin. Wild, unplanted, growing in ground that got torn open — the one everybody agrees is a weed, and it is absolutely stunning anyway. Strength, perseverance and beauty in something nobody looks after. We didn't have to explain that metaphor to a single woman who's lived it.
"We make the thing we couldn't find anywhere else: something you can wear that says it out loud."
The injury nobody sees
Because the injury nobody can see is the injury nobody accounts for. No cast. No scar. No line on a form a stranger understands.
We are a women's social support group inside a veteran community — founded by veteran spouses, and open to women Veterans and female caregivers who stood beside the ones who served and carried their own invisible weight doing it. We make the thing we couldn't find anywhere else: something you can wear that says it out loud.
Every dollar goes back.
Emergency funding for families in a bad month — the hydro bill in February, the gas to an appointment two hours away or groceries for the kids.
Scholarships. Team sponsorships. Veteran athletes and their families across a range of sports and programs. Community-funded programs, and the events we host — women's activities twice a month, in 7 provinces at different times and on different days, because everybody's week looks different.
You're not buying a shirt. You're buying somebody some breathing room.
Our founder
Autumn Farmer
Founder, The Teal Poppies · CEO, The Veteran Farmer Inc & Fortitude Farms
Ten years ago, Autumn set a goal: create a nationally recognized group of women living with PTSD. The Teal Poppies is that vision made real.
Author of 6 books, CEO of The Veteran Farmer Inc and Fortitude Farms, Autumn lives in Nasonworth with her Veteran husband, they have two boys, two German Shepherds — Kush and Regiment — and one cat named Lucky, who spends his days greeting Veterans at their New Brunswick office.
Autumn didn't serve — she supported. And she built something for every woman who knows exactly what that means. The Teal Poppies is one of 7 locations across Canada. Find the community on Facebook and Instagram as The Teal Poppies Voice.
Autumn's books
Written for the families nobody writes for.
Six books for the wives, the kids, the teens, and the Veterans who need plain language — not therapy jargon.
Bags Packed
The Honest Book for Wives of PTSD
The book that started it all. Plain language, no therapy jargon — written for the woman who has been managing a PTSD household and needs someone to finally say it out loud.
Get it on AmazonMy Journey
The companion journal for Bags Packed
Every tool from Bags Packed, with room to actually write it down. Ninety days of thirty-second check-ins. Start on any page. Leave gaps. Nobody is grading this.
Get it on AmazonOur Numbers
A Couples Budget Book
The number one thing couples fight about is money — and it's almost never about the money. Bills, debt, goals, and a pinky swear at the back. PTSD is expensive and nobody says that either.
Get it on AmazonMy Poppi's Green Medicine
A picture book for children ages 3–13
A child explains PTSD in the words a child would actually use. Warm, honest, and written for kids growing up alongside someone with PTSD — with a closing note for the grownups who read it with them.
Get it on AmazonHold Your Own
A guided journal for teens living with or alongside PTSD
For teenagers who grew up carrying something that was never theirs. Self-worth, boundaries, where you're going — in plain language, with no therapy jargon. A quarter of the book is blank on purpose.
Get it on AmazonThe Veteran Farmer Field Book
A guide for Canadian Veterans with physical and mental injuries
Releasing from the CAF or RCMP means paperwork nobody explains. This is the plain-English guide that sits down beside you and works through it — written by Autumn, who founded The Veteran Farmer with her husband Lloyd.
Get it on Amazon