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Seeds of Diversity : offers many guides for gardeners from the Seed Finder &   Seed Exchange , listings for  Seedy Saturday events, prevent seed variety extinction, and Community Seed Grow-outs projects . Over   150  Seedy Saturday  events (seed exchange events)  raised nearly 81% of their 2026 fundraising goal for these events before the new year began!  © Brummet Media Group  Seeds.ca/donate  “Last year, Seeds of Diversity' s seed savers grew and exchanged over 3350 different varieties of heritage vegetable, grain, flower, and herb seeds.  We gathered samples of the rarest varieties to back up in our seed collection, because 2090 of those were not available from any seed company in Canada.  We donated over 3400 packets of rare seeds to Seedy Saturdays/Sundays and seed swaps across the country.”  Are you looking for sources of Canadian seeds for your garden next year? This index of all the garden vegetable seeds in Canada...

Have a passion for butterflies? How about birds? Or photo contests? Well this event might be for you !  Join in the fun at the Texas Butterfly Festival (USA) Oct 26 - 29th 2024, where you may spot some of the 250 varieties of butterflies, or 300 varieties of birds.  Learn more:  https://texasbutterflyfestival.com/ ~~~     Follow & Find Books:   on Amazon Visit:   Drum It With Brummet Blog Subscribe:   Brummet Media​ YouTube Channel​  ​ ~~~

Pollinator Week Canada 2024 June 17 - 23 Pollinator Week is a project that was started  by Pollinator Partnerships Canada in 2007 and soon grew to become an international event with National Pollinator Week events happening across the planet.  Learn about pollinators, citizen science and back yard or school projects... promote pollinator health by spreading the word and planting gardens.  Scan for online webinars, in person gatherings, garden tours and farm tours... there is a lot going on! Visit  https://pollinatorpartnership.ca/ to download their toolkits, participate in projects and discover tons of resources and organizations. And don't forget to learn how to preserve those amazing summer harvests produced by local small farmers! Check out this cookbook: From One Small Garden - Over 300 Delicious Nutritious Recipes . 

Planting for positive change is a real passion of ours.  Not only can we grow food that is harvested at it's peak nutritional level, with amazing flavour, and... for free - but we also reduce the environmental impact of our menu plan.  Add some flowering annuals, trees, shrubs and a wildflower or two - This will attract more pollinators who will ensure that you get a great harvest.  These plants provide food, shelter and habitat for a number of very important and beautiful creatures.  As you expand the plantings and potted plants a great number of bees of all shapes and sizes will start appearing.  What was that that just fluttered by? O how beautiful!  Witness the butterflies, sphynx moths, evening moths and tiny birds that are now dropping into your yard for a welcome respite.  Sound like an amazing experience? Well it is... and we have done it here on our property.  It wasn't long before my interest renewed in itentifying them,learning their na...

Obtain bee, bat, bird, butterfly and eco-friendly gardening resources, links, guides and certification plaques. • Pollination Canada and Pollination Partners - http://Pollinationcanada.ca   & http://pollinator.org • North American Butterfly Association – http://nappc.org • Xerces Society For Invertebrate Conservation - http://xerces.org • Bee Better Certification – h ttp://beebettercertified.org • Find groups and actions you can take part in: https://xerces.org/citizen-science  • Canadian Honey Council - http://honeycouncil.ca • Back Yard Habitat Certification Program - http://backyardhabitats.org • Canadian Wildlife Federation Wildlife Friendly Habitat Certification - http://cwf-fcf.org/en/explore-our-work/connecting-with-nature/in-the-garden/get-certified/ • National Wildlife Federation’s Garden for Wildlife Habitat Certification - https://www.nwf.org/Garden-For-Wildlife/Certify.aspx • http://content.yardmap.org/ ~~   Visit the Brummet's @: ...

The Pollinator Steward Webinar Series Now that winter is settling in I'm sure our readers are looking for educational resources to enable them to continue their valuable efforts to make the world a better place. This particular series is run by Pollinator Partnership Canada with Habitat Acquisition Trust , Saanich Native Plants  and Parks Canada . Pollinator Steward Webinar Series Modules: Introduction to Pollinators: 24 Jun 2020. Watch Recording Selecting Plants for Pollinators: 8 July 2020. Watch Recording Beautiful Butterflies: 23 July 2020. Watch Recording Creating Hedgerows for Pollinators: 28 July 2020. Watch Recording Creating Meadows for Pollinators: 5 August, 2020. Watch Recording Indigenous Stewardship of TENEW (land/water) in W̱SÁNEĆ and Lekwungen Territories: 11 August, 2020. Watch Recording Creating Wetlands for Pollinators: 2, September 2020. Watch Recording ~~   Visit the Brummet's @: http://BrummetMedia.ca ~~

Pollinators With the recent fire epidemic in the US a lot of smoke was produced for everyone. You may have been in one of the communities affected where air quality warnings were issued. Perhaps you had to shut your windows because the smell bothered you, or it was bad enough to avoid being outside at all. If you were in the epicentre you probably had breathing gear on.  Have you ever stopped to wonder what happens to bees and other wildlife? They are my first thought. The innocents. The animals, the precious flora and fauna, the delicate butterflies, the eggs in nests, the young ones, the ones that can't run or fly away.... Tragic. Just tragic . Not to mention the forests themselves. The diversity. The environmental impacts to come.  Thankfully there are thousands of organizations out there that work for pollinators, bee and butterfly organizations, bird and wildlife rehabilitation centres, tree planting and native seed supply organizations. Numerous organizations also suppor...

Kudo's to the amazing work this one organization, and all their awesome volunteers, accomplished in 2019!! Pollinator Partnership Canada 's Year in Review! - planted over 6000 native flowers, grasses and shrubs with over 1000 students from 16 different schools - successfully concluded a two-year project across Ontario that saw the creation of 49 new monarch habitat sites, including school gardens, natural areas restorations, and 20 farms - conducted over 20 outreach events in Ontario, British Columbia, and Newfoundland informing the public about the importance of pollinators and ways to help them - developed and launched the Canadian School Garden and Curriculum Kit - presented case studies at the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s workshop on Pollinator Habitat Restoration on Rights-of-Way in Ottawa - launched the Youth Pollinator Leadership Team in Victoria, BC - established 2 pollinator gardens in the City of Victoria in Community Gardens, along with educati...

Celebrating I Love Creston Magazine!!   Wow!!! Check out this issue of the I Love Creston magazine... where you'll find an article celebrating the awards we received for the work we have done in our yard... however - you'll notice the focus of the article isn't really about us, but is written in such a way as to invite others to certify their yards as wildlife, bat, bee, bird, beetle, etc. habitats.  The article also offers plenty of links for people to find nonprofit organizations that offer certification programs, resources and more. Visit: http://ilovecreston.com/ A little about the mag: " Founded in 2008,  I Love Creston magazine ,  published in the Creston Valley, features general interest stories about the people of our community. With regular departments covering the outdoors, agriculture, health and history,  I Love Creston  offers a true cross-section of life in the Creston Valley. Our full-colour monthly magazine reaches tho...

Recommended Resource Just one resource today, but if you do an online search - as recommended in the info below - there will be a myriad of opportunities for you, a senior home, a school project, youth group project, etc.: Do you have birds visiting your yard or an area visible from a window?  There’s a great opportunity to get involved with bio-science – all you have to do is grab your favourite beverage and some form of record keeping (digital voice recorder or a pen/paper).  Projects like these are frequently offered to individuals, groups, family, school projects, seniors and others who care about science and wildlife. Typically they involve counting types of insects or birds or other wildlife in the area you happen to be. Scientists use that information in a huge number of ways and these counts are particularly important to conservation and wildlife management programs.  Just do a search online to f...