2024 Community Garden Giveaway

Applications for Our 2024 Community Garden Giveaway are Now Closed

Annually, Northern Wildflowers Inc. donates a minimum of 1% of our annual sales to groups that support regreening, outdoor classrooms and food security. Last year, our first annual Community Garden Giveaway supported over 30 amazing grassroots projects across Canada and we are doing it again. This year we are making the process simpler by providing eligible groups with Garden Seed Kits.

You'll see a list of eligible projects below, however projects that introduce children to and support older adults in gardening are particularly close to our hearts. Applications closed November 5th, 2024, and eligible applicants will be notified by December. Thank you to all who shared and applied!

Eligible projects include:

-community gardens/food forest/ pollinator gardens

-those that engage children, youth, older adults and/or other vulnerable groups in gardening. These projects might be led by daycares, schools, clubs, nursing homes, hospitals, horticultural societies, shelters, group homes etc.

-free-of-charge community seed libraries

2023 Community Garden Giveaway

Our 2023 Community Garden Giveaway was a huge success and we received a large number of applications from groups across the country. We were pleased to be able to provide seeds to all of the eligible projects that applied!

Application was open to groups across Canada managing community gardens, or introducing children, older adults or at risk populations to gardening. Eligible groups received a bundle of seeds valued over $50 to support their projects. We supported 38 grassroots projects across the country, including a selection listed below:

🌱 Boyne Grows Seed Library

🌱 Apitipi Anicinapek Nation - Food Initiative

🌱 Tillsonburg Community Garden

🌱 Perley Health Veteran’s Community Garden

🌱 Glenview Edible Garden Program

🌱 Sprout Impact Fellowship EcoCreatives Club

🌱 Sackville Community Garden

🌱 The Bob Rumball Canadian Centre of Excellence

🌱 Frank St Bee & Butterfly Garden

🌱 Centretown Grassroots Group

🌱 NS Highlands Butterflyway Rangers

🌱 Common Ground at Emmanuel Community Garden

🌱 Augusta Street Park Community Garden

🌱 St-Francis Valley Naturalist Club

🌱 Charlie Lake Community Garden

🌱 Georgina-Brock Garden Club

🌱 Clean North

🌱 Powassan Agricultural Society

🌱 Room to Bloom with Auntie Plantie (c/o Plant the Town)

🌱 Milton and District Horticultural Society

🌱 Adelaide Butterfly Garden

🌱 Gardening Kingston (Kingston Horticultural Society)

🌱 Massey Agricultural Society: Community Garden

🌱 Odeiwin Connect

🌱 Caistor Central EcoClub - Caistor Central Public School

🌱 Parkview School

🌱 The Growing Circle, École Van Walleghem School

🌱 Laurentian Environmental Sustainability Committee

🌱 Welcome Home Learning

🌱 Flour Mill Community Farm

🌱 Haliburton County Public Library - Minden Hills Branch

🌱 Thunder Bay Butterflyway Ranger Project

🌱 Magnetawan Horticultural Society

Application is 9 quick questions filled out online (takes about 3 minutes).