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January 2021

6/1/2021

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2021 Online Store Now Open!
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**We will start shipping orders in early March. Orders will be packed and shipped in the order in which they are received**

Here's a quick look at what's new in our catalogue this year:
New 2021 Varieties

Canada Wild Goose Bean
Chufa - 7 varieties
Early Jalepeno Pepper
Gaia Soybean
Kajari Melon
King Sized Strawflower Mix

Mascara Lettuce
One Penny Winter Squash
Pink Beauty Radish
Platonic Romaine Lettuce
Will's Sugar Watermelon
Yellow Aussie Lettuce
 
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Thank you for your interest in Bird & Bee!

We are a small farm operation based in Ottawa, ON. Everything we sell is grown and saved by hand at Just Food Farm in the Eastern Greenbelt. All of the varieties we offer are open-pollinated, selected for their interesting traits, great flavour and vigour in our region.
Our products are certified organic by Ecocert Canada.
Reflections from last season.

Maybe some of you are here for the stories, and don't worry - I haven't forgotten about you. It's important to get the marketing out of the way right off the bat (so I'm told by my youngest sister, an expert in these things). If you skip this part that's okay, too. We can still send you seeds.

2020 holds a lot of weight. It's impossible to reflect on the farming season without acknowledging that this was an historical year on so many fronts. Amidst a global sense of grief and foreboding, we were humbled by and grateful for our access to food through farming: as physical and mental exercise, as therapy, as connection to our community, as the most tactile version of hope. Something about the predictable unpredictability of growing food from seed kept us grounded through the chaos of this year.

Farming in 2020 was much like farming in 2019, and 2018, and 2017, and so on. The weather was weird. We ordered so much compost. We decided to broadfork every bed and cursed all the way through it. We finally won a years-long battle of  'Deer vs Lettuce' by putting up a very cheap but very effective deer fence (should have done that a long time ago). We had small and big victories like finally growing spinach and onions well and nearly doubling our seed production on half the amount of land. We had losses related to the cold spring, late rains and early frost. As our good friend Dan always says, "that's farming".

As usual, we are feeling just about rested by now and are itching to get going again. Planning the garden sounds like a pretty good way to be isolated this winter - don't you think?

~ Jamie
Thanks for reading! 

Jordan & Jamie
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Seed Potatoes!

27/4/2020

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NEW PRODUCT - We Have Seed Potatoes!

We are thrilled to be offering you seed potatoes from our friends at Ellenberger Organic Farm. Henry and Janet Ellenberger have been farming for 20 years, and they remain the only producers of Certified Organic and Canadian Food Inspection Agency-certified seed potato in Ontario. We have been growing Ellenberger potatoes for many years and we stand by the quality of their product.

Potatoes are a staple, and they are so easy to grow. We're willing to bet you can do it, too. Even if you don't have a garden, you can grow potatoes in almost anything - even 
in a bucket!
Please note: seed potatoes will be available for PICK UP ONLY, dates TBD at the end of May.

1) Go to www.birdandbee.ca
2) Choose your seed potatoes
3) Pick up at the end of May 

There is limited supply - once they're gone, they're gone!
BUY SEED POTATOES
WHAT'S A 'SEED POTATO', ANYWAY?

"A Seed Potato is a potato which has been grown & inspected by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.  Although it is possible for gardeners to save seed for planting the following year, only farms certified and inspected can sell potatoes for seed.  Unlike many vegetables, potatoes are not grown from seed, but instead from a tuber (the potato).  This is done because a potato grown from the seed produced on a potato plant do not necessarily produce tubers identical to the mother plant.  Only by planting a potato can we ensure that the potatoes harvested are the same as the potato planted" (description from seedpotatoes.ca).
 
There are two very simple reasons why we don't produce our own seed potatoes at Bird & Bee: 1) the double-certification required is a rigorous and complicated process, and 2) we don't have the space or equipment required for large volume.
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Seedy Saturday ONLINE

14/3/2020

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Thank you for supporting local businesses, and thank you for protecting your neighbours through social distancing <3

We won't be attending Seedy Saturdays for the coming weeks.
We are grateful to the organizers of these events for making the tough yet responsible decision to cancel/postpone these events. 

In the meantime, we will be offering Seedy Saturday pricing online (3 packs for $10) and FREE SHIPPING on all orders over $20 until the end of May.  
 
Through the challenges of the next few weeks, may you find comfort in community even when we aren't physically together. Let's stay connected - share photos of your seed-starting adventures to any platform with the hastag #birdandbeeseeds
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