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Seeds of IMBOLC – CELEBRATE THE SEED!
I offer only organically grown, non-GMO, varieties of seeds, plants and cut flowers that are grown right here in Wellington County, Ontario. I am dedicated to offering you open pollinated and/or time-tested fabulous outstanding heirlooms, specially chosen for home gardeners, based on great flavor/beauty, easy culture and exceptional garden performance.
I harvest and use the vegetables and herbs in my own kitchen to choose the most delicious to preserve seed from, and carefully observe the flowers and plants in my own garden for their performance. In this way I use natures process of natural selection to keep these seeds adapting to our environment and our climate, so you are assured these seeds can thrive in your garden also.
Our individual seed packets offer personally written descriptions, with a resealable, air tight zipper that keeps out dust, dirt and moisture. These bags have been carefully chosen for best seed storage as they also have maximum UV protection. This helps you to keep your seeds viable for future use in a convenient small package. These packages also contain a labeled green plant stake (to represent your green thumb), so all you have to do is add soil and some love! No more forgetting what you planted or where.
Inside you'll find superior quality seed – top germinating, reliable seed, from healthy vigorous plants grown in healthy soil. Our seed is always tested for top germination rates.
Our online store offers a secure, convenient way to shop for all of your favourite organic, heirloom seeds. We can ship all of our seeds throughout Canada with the exception of plants, which are pick up only.
We are starting off small and we will be adding constantly to our offerings to you. We are counting on the support of those who wish to BE part of the change in our agricultural systems, biodiversity, food sovereignty and security
Our free monthly newsletter, “Home on the Grange” offers great gardening ideas, seasonal recipes, growing tips, harvesting information and preserving ideas and nutritional and wellness news. Sign up on our website so you don’t miss out on public speaking, interesting workshops, plant sales, availability of gorgeous cut flowers and other awesome events! Looking for a speaker for your event? Contact Kat Granger, Master Gardener [email protected] we love to share our passion and spark new seed addictions!
Enjoy your organic harvest and thank you for supporting your local organic growers! Have a happy, healthy organic gardening season, and please come back to Seeds of IMBOLC for all your future organic and heirloom gardening needs.
Seeds of IMBOLC embraces and embodies the protection of biodiversity, with ongoing education through sharing of information.
S.O.I. promotes ecological diversity and preserving the health of our planet and sharing this knowledge with you. Food security and sovereignty requires team work, together we can and will make a difference. Leading by example we can have the biggest impact to protect and restore the environment. By instituting best practices to reduce our impact on the environment, and by educating as many as possible, (ending all the misinformation out there!) we are influencing many other businesses, and the world as a whole.
Are you an eco-luctionary? an revolutionary ecological action figure??
Do you want to help protect food sustainability and seed biodiversity, protect our right to own our food/seeds?
Do you love the taste, smell and health effects of authentically grown, delicious heirloom fruits/veg/flowers?
Do you look at the world and wonder how you can make a difference for yourself and the Earth?
Do you want to support locally grown seed and growers?
Do you appreciate the perfection and beauty of fresh, local, sustainably grown flowers in all their glory?
YES, YES,YES, YES YES!! Come learn with us!
It’s easier than you think to encourage, promote and protect our food biodiversity right in your garden, farm or container garden!
Interesting Imbolc Lore
IMBOLC is an ancient festival (February 2nd) to CELEBRATE THE SEED and Nature as they considered it to be unconditionally sacred, an expression or manifestation of deity and divinity. Druids do not worship nature; they give reverence to deity that is expressed within nature.
It is the time of Blessing of the seeds and consecration of agricultural tools. It is the festival of the Maiden, for from this day to March 21st, it is her season to prepare for growth and renewal. Brighid’s snake emerges from the womb of the Earth Mother to test the weather, (the origin of Ground Hog Day), and in many places the first Crocus flowers began to spring forth from the frozen earth.
Another traditional symbol of Imbolc is the plough. Pieces of cheese and bread are left by the plough and in the newly turned furrows as offerings to the nature spirits. It is considered taboo to cut or pic plants during this time.
We can attempt to try to understand this power, this energy that we feel and see all around us, or we can simply accept that it is beyond our full comprehension whilst acknowledging its power over our lives, that it is deity, that it is sacred.
To a Druid, the term ‘supernatural’ has no meaning; nothing can be above Nature. Another view would be that the universe had no beginning, it is a continuing, ever changing wonder that we can’t hope to fully comprehend.
Within our society it has become normal to think of nature as something linked to the countryside, or that which might be observed outside of ourselves other than that which is beyond the physical. Perhaps we can learn from their knowledge. Food for thought
Deities of Imbolc:
All Virgin/Maiden Goddesses, Brighid, Aradia, Athena, Inanna, Gaia, and Februa, and Gods of Love and Fertility, Aengus Og, Eros, and Februus.
Symbolism of Imbolc:
Purity, Growth and Re-Newal, The Re-Union of the Goddess and the God, Fertility, and dispensing of the old and making way for the new. rings to the nature spirits. It is considered taboo to cut or pick plants during this time.
Activities of Imbolc:
Candle Lighting, Stone Gatherings, Snow Hiking and Searching for Signs of Spring, Making of Brideo’gas and Bride’s Beds, Making Priapic Wands, Decorating Ploughs, Feasting, and Bon Fires maybe lit.
