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Alpine Gardeners of Central Vancouver Island
Alpine Gardeners of Central Vancouver Island
Address: BC
Contact Person: June Strandberg
City / Town / Area: Qualicum Beach
Phone # 1: 250-752-0401
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants, 6. Groups-Clubs-Associations, 7. Education or Information
Education society with seed and plant sales.
Website: Alpine Gardeners of Central Vancouver Island
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Brother Nature Organic Seeds
Brother Nature Organic Seeds
Address: BC.
Contact Person: Coral Brinck
Contact #2: Gordon Brinck
City / Town / Area: Victoria
Phone # 1: 250-661-2255
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants
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.
Website: www.brothernature.ca
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BrotherNatureSeeds/
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EcoReality Co-op
EcoReality Co-op
Address: 2152 Fullford-Ganges Road
BC, V8K 1Z7
Contact Person: Jan Steinman
Contact #2: Cleome Rowe
City / Town / Area: Salt Spring Island
Phone # 1: 250-653-2024
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants, 5. Home/Hand-made Products, 6. Groups-Clubs-Associations
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).
Website: EcoReality Co-op
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Figs For Life
Figs For Life
Address: 7650B Marcus Road
Denman Island
BC. V0R 1T0
Contact Person: Devmurti Khalsa
City / Town / Area: Denman Island
Phone # 1: 250-335-1143
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants, 2. Trees, 8. Potpourri-Other
We are a small family-run nursery on the British Columbia coast with a huge passion for growing hardy fig trees.
Website: www.figsforlife.ca
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Full Circle Seeds
Full Circle Seeds
Address: PO Box 807
Sooke
BC. V9Z 1H8
Contact Person: Mary Alice Johnson & Jordan Field
City / Town / Area: Sooke
Phone # 1: 250-642-3671
Phone #2: 250-642-2131
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants
Certified locally produced organic seeds for vegetables, flowers and herbs and seed potatoes.
Website: www.fullcircleseeds.com
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Garden Lore
Garden Lore
Address: BC.
Contact Person: Joan Wynden
City / Town / Area: Courtenay
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants
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.
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Gardens on the Go
Gardens on the Go
Address: BC
Contact Person: Connie Kuramoto
City / Town / Area: Qualicum Beach
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants, 4. Garden Services, 6. Groups-Clubs-Associations, 7. Education or Information
Education / Garden services / Seeds & Plants
Website: www.freewebs.com/gardensonthego/
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Goldstream Gardens / Sunshine’s Herb Pharm
Goldstream Gardens /  Sunshine’s Herb Pharm
Address: PO Box 429,
Coombs
BC. V0R 1M0
Contact Person: Sunshine Goldsberry
City / Town / Area: Coombs
Phone # 1: 250-248-8809
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants, 8. Potpourri-Other, 9. Fresh Produce/Products
Herbs, and items made from herbs.
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Good Earth Farms
Good Earth Farms
Address: 7636 Island Hwy.
Black Creek
BC. V9J 1G6
Contact Person: Simon Toole
Contact #2: Heather Mills
City / Town / Area: Black Creek
Phone # 1: 250-337-2261
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants
We have been growing and saving seed since 2002 in Black Creek. Our seeds are perfect for Island growing. We are passionate about local sustainable growing and love to share our knowledge. Please come by and say hi!!
Website: www.goodearthfarms.ca
Facebook: Good Earth Farms
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Green Thumb Garden Centre
Green Thumb Garden Centre
Address: 6261 Hammond Bay Road
BC V9T 5M4
Contact Person: Walter Pinnow
Contact #2: Kyle Gerke
City / Town / Area: Nanaimo
Phone # 1: 250-758-0944
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants, 2. Trees
Serving District 69 for over 60 years.
Website: Green Thumb Garden Centre
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Island Hothouse / Planting Seeds Project
Island Hothouse / Planting Seeds Project
Address: 10605 Southin Road

BC, V9G 2A8
Contact Person: Christine and Aurora Clark
Contact #2: Mojave Kaplan
City / Town / Area: Ladysmith (Saltair)
Phone # 1: 250-661-3184
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants
Sharing in the spirit of growing that has inspired the 2 generations of women represented at our table to be empowered, to be co-creators and to envision a better world. A family farm producing peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, cucumbers, beans, red russian garlic and more to come.
Website: Island Hothouse Website
Facebook: Island Hothouse Facebook
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Metchosin Farm
Metchosin Farm
Address: BC
Contact Person: Fiona Hamersley Chambers
Contact #2: Taylor King
City / Town / Area: Metchosin
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants
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.
Website: www.metchosinfarm.ca
Facebook: Metchosin Farm
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Nanoose Edibles
Nanoose Edibles
Address: 1950A Stewart Rd.
BC. V9P 9E7
Contact Person: Barbara Ebell
Contact #2: Lorne Ebell
City / Town / Area: Nanoose Bay
Phone # 1: 250-468-2332
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants, 2. Trees, 9. Fresh Produce/Products
Organic Produce. Vegie box program. U-pick, and more… . Visit Nanoose Edibles website for an in-depth look at their offerings.
Website: www.nanooseediblesfarm.com
Facebook: Nanoose Edibles
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Omega Blue Farms
Omega Blue Farms
Address: BC
Contact Person: Wayne & Dawn Osborne
City / Town / Area: Qualicum Beach
Phone # 1: 250-757-2006
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants, 7. Education or Information
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.
Website: www.OmegaBlueFarms.ca
Facebook: Omega Blue Farms
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Outrageous Edibles & Bedibles
Outrageous Edibles & Bedibles
Address: BC.
Contact Person: Jesse Jacobs
City / Town / Area: Coombs
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants
Outrageous Edibles & Bedibles is a British Columbia wholesale plant nursery growing a wide variety of high-quality bedding plants, vegetable starters and herbs.
Website: www.OutrageousPlants.ca
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Qualicum Beach Farmers Market
Qualicum Beach Farmers Market
Address: BC
Contact Person: Launie Elves
City / Town / Area: Qualicum Beach
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants, 2. Trees, 3. Garden Accessories, 9. Fresh Produce/Products
A true farmers market. Eat fresh. Buy local.
Website: www.qbfarmersmarket.com
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Rabbit Hill Farm
Rabbit Hill Farm
Address: 1775 Nanaimo River Rd.
Nanaimo
BC. V9X 1E9
Contact Person: Kathy Blackstaffe
City / Town / Area: Nanaimo
Phone # 1: 250-754-4355
Phone #2: 250-802-4099
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants, 5. Home/Hand-made Products
Jams, Jellies, Pickles, Sauces, Preserves, and more…
Facebook: Rabbit Hill Farm
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Ravensong Seeds & Herbals / Fireweed Farm
Ravensong Seeds & Herbals / Fireweed Farm
Address: Box 169,
Saanichton
BC V8M 2C3
Contact Person: Harmony Pillon
Contact #2: Jessy Delleman
City / Town / Area: Saanichton
Phone # 1: 250-652-2655
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants, 5. Home/Hand-made Products
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.
Website: www.ravensongseeds.com
Website 2: www.fireweedschool.com
Facebook: Ravensong Seeds and Herbals
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Salt Spring Seeds
Salt Spring Seeds
Address: 250 Toynbee Road
PO Box 444, Stn. Ganges
Salt Spring Island
BC. V8K 2H7
Contact Person: Dan Jason
City / Town / Area: Salt Spring Island
Phone # 1: 250-537-4658
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants, 7. Education or Information
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.
Website: Salt Spring Seeds
Facebook: Salt Spring Seeds
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Seeds of Diversity Canada
Seeds of Diversity Canada
Address: 2503 Island Hwy. West
Qualicum Beach
BC. V9K 1G5
Contact Person: Joy Smith
Contact #2: Dale Crossley
City / Town / Area: Qualicum Beach
Phone # 1: 250-752-8135
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants, 6. Groups-Clubs-Associations, 7. Education or Information
Canada’s original Heritage Seed Program: memberships, back issues of magazine, and donations accepted at our Qualicum Beach Seedy Saturday table.
MORE INFORMATION: Seeds of Diversity is a Canadian charitable organization dedicated to the conservation of agricultural and horticultural biodiversity. Our members preserve the basic building blocks of Canada’s food system: plants, seeds, and pollinators. We save and collect seeds of rare and endangered food plants, promote the health of pollinator ecosystems, help communities create local food systems, and make thousands of varieties of vegetables, fruit, and grains available that might otherwise disappear forever.
Website: Seeds of Diversity Canada
Facebook: Seeds of Diversity Canada
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Small Island Seed Co.
Small Island Seed Co.
Address: BC, V9R 6R1
Contact Person: Richard Kuehnel
City / Town / Area: Nanaimo
Phone # 1: 250-802-5747
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants
We specialize in growing rare, exotic, and perennial vegetable seeds.
Website: Small Island Seed Company
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Surprize Nursery
Surprize Nursery
Address: 3510 Brittain Blvd.
Qualicum Beach
BC. V9K 1W2
Contact Person: Steve Hoffman
City / Town / Area: Qualicum Beach
Phone # 1: 250-594-5947
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants, 5. Home/Hand-made Products, 8. Potpourri-Other, 9. Fresh Produce/Products
We grow organic herbs, bay laurel and eucalyptus trees and make pickles, jams and jellies. In the spring we grow a large selection of veggie starts. Of course, we also have an extensive selection of organic seeds.
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Sweet Rock Farm
Sweet Rock Farm
Address: 1380 Degnen Road
Gabriola Island
BC. V0R 1X7
Contact Person: Sal Dominelli
City / Town / Area: Gabriola Island
Phone # 1: 250-247-7885
Phone #2: 250-713-9041
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants, 3. Garden Accessories
I’m a seed grower, and market farmer on Gabriola Island.
Website: sweetrockfarmseeds.ca
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The Blueberry Man
The Blueberry Man
Address: AB, T7S 1G4
Contact Person: Daxton Bennett
Contact #2: David Brown
City / Town / Area: Whitecourt
Phone # 1: 780-649-6714 (Daxton)
Phone #2: 780-706-4471 (Dave)
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants
The Blueberry Man has been bringing fruit plants to all over the Island since 2010. We help many fundraisers each year selling our plants to raise money for their cause.
Website: www.theblueberryman.ca/
Facebook: TheWestCoastBlueberryMan
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TreeEater Farm and Nursery
TreeEater Farm and Nursery
Address: 2011 North Central Road
Denman Island
BC. V0R 1T0
Contact Person: Peter Janes
City / Town / Area: Denman Island
Phone # 1: 250-335-0970
Phone #2: 250-897-8540
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants, 2. Trees
We are the best source in the Vancouver Island region for perennial tree crops, the species that we need for broad-scale Restoration Agriculture planting! Also, we hand-make Garden tools: Hori Horis, Pointed Hoes and Hunting Knives, plus more…
Website: www.treeeaternursery.com
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Twining Vine Garden
Twining Vine Garden
Address: BC
Contact Person: Sandra Hofer
Contact #2: Tom Gray
City / Town / Area: Fanny Bay
Phone # 1: 250-335-0584
Phone #2: 250-218-8841
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants, 2. Trees
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.
Website: Twining Vine Garden Website
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Valhalla Farm
Valhalla Farm
Address: 3693 Gibbins Road
BC. V9L 6E7
Contact Person: Michelle Harrison
City / Town / Area: Duncan
Phone # 1: 250-686-1513
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants, 5. Home/Hand-made Products
Valhalla Farm Herbs N’ Things offers many products, all grown organically in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island. Visit our website (and our farm) to see the wide variety of our offerings.
Website: www.valhallafarm.ca
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Valley Succulents
Valley Succulents
Address: 2210 Anderton Rd.
Comox
BC V9M 4B1
Contact Person: Jamey Lauinger
Contact #2: Rachel McColm
City / Town / Area: Comox
Phone # 1: 250-465-1338
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants
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.
Website: Valley Succulents
Facebook: Valley Succulents
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Warwick Dahlias / aka Back Yard Bloomers
Warwick Dahlias / aka Back Yard Bloomers
Address: 1672 Constitution Road
BC. V9J 1G2
Contact Person: Sherry Jessee
City / Town / Area: Black Creek
Phone # 1: 250-337-2000
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants
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.
Website: http://warwickdahlias.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/warwickdahlias/
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West Coast Seeds
West Coast Seeds
Address: 5300 34B Avenue
BC. V4L 2P1
Contact Person: Alex Augustyniak
City / Town / Area: Delta
Phone # 1: 604-952-8820
Phone #2: 604-764-0067
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants, 3. Garden Accessories
Grower Quality, Untreated Seeds for Organic Gardening. NEW: Certified Organic Cover Crops Seeds!
Website: www.westcoastseeds.com
Facebook: WestCoastSeeds
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Windowsill Orchids
Windowsill Orchids
Address: 3573 Mt. Sicker Road
Chemainus
BC. V0R 1K4
Contact Person: Sue Christison
City / Town / Area: Chemainus
Phone # 1: 250-246-3447
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants
Orchid plants, air orchids, clay orchids, and more…
Facebook: Windowsill Orchids
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Saanich Organics
Saanich Organics
Address: 1438 Mt Newton Xrd
BC, V8M 1S1
Contact Person: Theresa Heinekey
City / Town / Area: Saanichton
Phone # 1: 206-930-9540
Phone #2: 250-818-5807
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants
Saanich Organics is a group of farms that sell together in CSA box and markets. We have a jointly owned/operated side project of growing/saving seeds. This business is called Seeds of the Revolution. Our seeds are high quality, organically grown and certified.
Website: Saanich Organics
Facebook: Saanich Organics
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The Shrubbers
The Shrubbers
Address: 999 Price Road
BC, V9P 2C9
Contact Person: Elsje Badenhorst
Contact #2: Judy Yacoboski
City / Town / Area: Parksville
Phone # 1: 250-927-6422
Phone #2: 250-586-0433
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants, 2. Trees, 5. Home/Hand-made Products
We are a new home based nursery with a wide variety of trees, shrubs, perennials and a supplier of fast growing, deer resistant hedging. We grow a lot of deer and drought resistant/tolerant plants and shrub varieties that are attractive to bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and song birds. We grow almost all of our entire stock., either from propagating or from Canadian rootstock. We will be doing a lot of topiary work in the future and are always on the lookout for new, interesting and different stock to grow.
Website: The Shrubbers
Facebook: The Shrubbers
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West Coast Engravings
West Coast Engravings
Contact Person: Marta Houlding
City / Town / Area: Nanaimo
Phone # 1: 604-764-0811
Participant's Focus: 1. Seeds and/or Plants, 3. Garden Accessories, 5. Home/Hand-made Products
We sell seeds, flowers, plants, bulbs, wooden boxes for plants, plant tags and garden signs.
Website: West Coast Engravings
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