Business Directory

Education society with seed and plant sales.

The Brant Wildlife Festival celebrates nature, particularly Brant geese as they rest and feed on the shores of Parksville and Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island, BC.

We take great pride in providing our buyers with seeds to plant a complete biodiverse garden that is healthy, reliable, eco-friendly, and inexpensive. We also germination test all our seed. We adjust our quantities in proportion to germination ratios, so that, provided proper conditions, you should realize as many plants as the seed quantities states on the package or more. It's that important to us that you can rely on our quality. Our selection is heavy on plants that provide food, beauty, interest, diversity and colour. We hope you enjoy our displays and welcome all questions.

The Canadian School of Natural Nutrition Vancouver Island now has 2 classroom locations on the Island – our original one in Nanaimo and new location in Victoria – enabling students from all over the Island and Gulf Islands to access Canada’s premier education in holistic nutrition.
Dedicated to promoting health and wellness through natural nutrition, we offer a comprehensive diploma program that integrates a deep knowledge of the healing and preventive properties of food, science, the body/mind/spirit connection, and the environment. Our approach is holistic, blending practical knowledge with hands-on experience in a supportive, student-centred learning environment.

Non-profit organisation that takes a leadership role to reduce the negative impacts of invasive species on coastal communities.

Denman Island Heritage Apple Trees is a small family run nursery that specializes in propagating traditional apple trees. It's run by Shonna Janeway and her daughter Kate at The Potager on Denman Island.They propagate and sell over one hundred apple varieties including crab apples and traditional French and English cider apples.

EcoReailty Co-op was established as a site for collaborative farming and housing for its member-funders. We produce a broad array of agricultural products, including seeds, vegetable starts, and nursery stock, and turn many of those products into value-added products, such as fruit preserves, dried produce, salsas and relishes. Our goat milk soap is made from our own goat milk, and our carrot cake has our own eggs, goat milk buttermilk, and carrots (seasonally).

The main product we are offering is leaf cutter bees in larva stage, as well as hand made bee houses and nesting.

Certified locally produced organic seeds for vegetables, flowers and herbs and seed potatoes.

Featuring deer resistant, drought tolerant and pollinator friendly perennials, Garden Lore celebrates the wonders of nature with a selection of the unique and unusual, the beautiful and the bizarre. What better way to welcome the new gardening year than by visiting us for some early colour or intriguing gems.

Herbs, and items made from herbs.

Serving District 69 for over 60 years.

Here at Islepaca Farms we package our Binky's Beans on site and distribute directly to you, the garden enthusiast. All our beans are sun dried, hand selected and are free from rocks and vegetable matter. Using alpaca/llaama manure as fertilizer is a great idea. Even though it has a lower organic content alpaca/llama manure is still considered a rich soil conditioner. Easy to use, spread the whole or ground beans around the base of the plant. The smaller burlap bags are extremely popular are perfect for making 'Alpaca Tea.'

Based in the Cowichan Valley, we produce and sell a range of hand crafted bee themed products. Everything from attracting and keeping Mason bees and Leafcutter bees including condos and bee cocoons, to backyard bee kits, limited edition bee prints, garden and household goods plus education regarding the importance of bees to our environment.

Located on Vancouver Island, our Metchosin Farm grows and sells 200 Certified Organic, locally-adapted seed crops, along with perennial soft fruit plants, and edible roots and tubers.

MARS is dedicated to increasing the awareness of rhododendrons and the diverse plants that grow with them, by bringing in knowledgeable speakers, and through other educational means providing up to date information on the genus.

Organic Produce. Vegie box program. U-pick, and more... . Visit Nanoose Edibles website for an in-depth look at their offerings.

Omega Blue Farms is a heritage animal and heirloom plant conservation farm. The animal and plant varieties we utilize are maintained, restored, and improved using traditional breeding and moreganic practices.

The Brimm celebrated its 20th year in business in 2017. With Teresa and son Brandon as the third owners. Choosing local ingredients like our free range fresh eggs, produce, herbs, cheese, BC wines and craft beers.
Teresa brings her love of food and over 30 years of experience to designing menus, and fresh flavours. She fits the needs and budgets of her guests with her honest, sit down approach over a cup of coffee or tea.
Brandon's perspective offers humour, his love of anything BBQ, and frequent changes to our beers on tap.

Qualicum Beach Streamkeepers are active in protecting and restoring wild fish habit in our local rivers and streams. For Seedy Saturday, we will focus on invasive plants in riparian areas.

Ravensong is a small seed and herbal business specializing in rare and hard to find medicinal herb plants and seeds, with a selection of culinary herbs, flowers, veggies and garlic. We also craft a line of high quality, small batch herbal products, harvested fresh at peak potency. Our seeds & plants are open pollinated and grown without the use of pesticides, chemicals or GMOS. All seeds, plants and herbal products are grown and made on our farm, Fireweed Farm & School, in Brentwood Bay, BC.

In business since 1986, 2020 is our 33rd year of promoting a safe, sustainable and local agriculture. Specializing in beans, grains, medicinal herbs and garlic, all our seeds are untreated, open-pollinated and non-GMO. We grow all our own seeds and sell only our most recent harvest. Orders are filled year-round, and usually within a day or two of receiving your requests. View our Heritage & Heirloom Organic Seed Catalog at our website.

Shoots with Roots began in 2003, as an intergenerational gardening program where local school-aged children learned side by side with volunteer garden mentors in our Children's Food Garden.
The program has since expanded to include explorations of our local Douglas-fir forest, adventures in the Artist's Garden, and a wide variety of hands-on learning activities throughout Milner Gardens & Woodland.

We are all about backyard composting! The all-metal Speedibin composter is built to keep out rats and be easy to use. The goal is to make the ideal composter to encourage people to make compost. Feed the soil that feeds the plants that feed us! Visit us and play the ‘Test your compost skills’ game.

I'm a seed grower, and market farmer on Gabriola Island.

The Good Earth Co. produces biochar as an organic soil amendment. Biochar is a specialized form of charcoal, crushed and charged with organic nutrients and beneficial soil microbes. Biochar increases soil fertility, moisture holding capacity and the biodiversity of the soil. It is also an excellent way to sequester atmospheric CO2, to generate renewable energy and to make excellent use of organic waste materials. Our locally made biochar is an excellent amendment for seeding mixes, for planting with trees and for use in garden beds. The Good Earth is an initiative of The Urban Farmer, a BC business promoting sustainable agriculture and permaculture throughout Western Canada and internationally.

Celebrating Nature's Botanic Diversity. We offer rare difficult to find shrubs, trees, perennials and veggies from around the world. Nut and fruit trees to species Paeonia.

Valley Succulents is a speciality plant nursery located in the Comox Valley. Our speciality is Cacti and succulents both tender and hardy. In addition to this we offer a wide range perennials some garden supplies and good selection of pots.

A great resource for dahlia tubers--we grow approximately 3000 dahlias each year. We also sell cut flowers, and can be seen at local Farmer's Markets.

Orchid plants, air orchids, clay orchids, and more...

Dig smarter not harder with the Y-Grip Garden tool--a truly ergonomic garden trowel that you can use to plant bulbs, transplant, cultivate & weed with. Use it one or two handed to change your hand position and decrease strain.