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Continue reading →: Bringing Bees to Classrooms on Vancouver IslandWhile bees have always intuitively been welcome friends in the garden, and no doubt their role in pollination is an important one for food security, I had never really thought too much about beekeeping as a practice until recently meeting fellow gardener and apiarist Lucienne Siedlecki of Rosebay Bees. We…
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Continue reading →: Cultivating Community in Turbulent TimesHave you ever noticed that during the times of greatest turbulence and turmoil that people are most sparked into action to come together in support of one another? As someone who has led a career in Community Animation, I often find myself drawn to pay close attention to how people…
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Continue reading →: When the World Goes Crazy, I Plant SeedsLast spring, I was in a little thrift shop that was about to close and saw this “make the planet great again” sign hanging behind the cashier while checking out. In the moment, I was relieved that the Trump presidency was a thing of the past and that this message…
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Continue reading →: Growing Food: The Most Important Lesson I Will Teach My ChildrenI had never successfully grown anything edible before I became a Mama. Fond childhood memories in my great grandparents garden sparked an interest that had been developing a few years prior as I collected seeds along my travels and trialed sprouting them a few times, but my nomadic lifestyle throughout…
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Continue reading →: Canadian School and Community Garden Grants in 2025While I did include a grant list in my February newsletter, I have since found more opportunities to add and figured it made more sense to put them in a post of their own. Here is a list of what I have found so far in seeking funding opportunities that…
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Continue reading →: Nanaimo: An Urban Agriculture ParadiseOne year ago this week I uprooted myself and three kiddos from our idyllic and remote community of Mayne Island, BC in search of a fresh start on Vancouver Island. It was a culture shock to return to regular society after nearly a decade of sanctuary and simplicity living in…
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Continue reading →: Seedy Saturdays and Sundays are Coming!While I have participated in half a dozen Seedy Weekend events over the years as both an attendee and an organizer, it was only in preparing to write this blog that I asked myself “When and where did this delightful, community-led, seed exchanging tradition start anyway?” Originating in Vancouver, BC…
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Continue reading →: Be Patient with Peppers in 5 Easy StepsTruth be told, I was at least five years into my gardening journey before I was able to successfully grow a pepper and more like seven years to get a good yield. When I first started putting seeds in dirt I didn’t really know what I was doing and how…
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Introducing the Garden Mama Growing Blog
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Continue reading →: Introducing the Garden Mama Growing BlogOver the years I have worn many hats that suited the many transitions life has offered. Environmental activist, business graduate, administrator, event planner, social entrepreneur, community builder, mother, gardener and food security advocate among them. But before any of these things I loved to write and it’s a passion I’ve…
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Continue reading →: 10 Canadian Heirloom Seed Companies I Would Order from AgainWasn’t 2020 a wild one? While I had already been growing in my passion for learning about the diversity of heirloom seed varieties, I was locked down inside a half acre dream of a garden that year and two more after it. During that time I became a completely unhinged…
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I’m Selena, and I’m a Garden Mama
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