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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...

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...

Announcing the new  Home & Garden Playlist   This is the first video for the Home & Garden Playlist on the Brummet Media Channel ( Youtube) . This new playlist has been on our adjenda for some time, and will include a variety of gardening and home cooking topics, tips for saving energy and water around the home, and lots of beautiful image-laden videos for you to enjoy. In this first 2 min. video, we explain the mental and physical benefits that come from gardening.  ** We can garden anywhere, on roof tops, in hanging baskets and boxes attached to window sills, patio and yard fences, plant pots on the door step or under the eves of a building, or a little grow unit inside. **  ** We can garden where ever we are, creating positive change in many different ways. ** https://youtu.be/1ICJjrZrqSU ~~~ Discover the Brummet's Books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0845RLK1X Find Them Elsewhere Online via : https://taplink.cc/brummet https://linktr.ee...