As a small business, an essential part of operating is supporting female entrepreneurship, Indigenous-owned businesses & organizations, and fellow small-scale growers. If you're involved in these communities and are fundraising, or are a retail client who is fundraising for a cause that's close to you, we'd love to donate flowers. Please feel free to let us know if we can assist, we would be grateful to contribute.
In support of Moontime Connections Ontario, Dewhurst Flowers actively purchases period products for donation to this wonderful organization. With every flower order we receive, a package of period products is purchased for contribution to Moontime's Period Product Drive.
Moon Time Connections Ontario is a volunteer-led organization that partners with Northern Indigenous Communities to supply people who menstruate with free period products.
Being the only Indigenous-led period equity group in Canada, Moon Time Connections "has shipped over 2 million period products to high schools, elementary schools, midwifery organizations, health care centres, Friendship Centres, shelters, food banks and community programs in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Nunavut, Newfoundland and Labrador, and North West Territories." - truenorthaid.ca
Removing barriers to gardening is important for individual and community health. Gardening is an experience that requires few components, but when those components are not accessible many people who would otherwise thrive in gardening are cut out.
Economic barriers are at the forefront of access to gardening - whether it is access to land or to the funds to purchase tools or seeds. While there are many amazing community gardens who are providing no-cost or low-cost options for garden space, the cost of seeds can still present a limitation to participation.
This is where Seed Libraries come in.
By sharing surplus seeds, an inclusive gardening community can be built. More people can have access to food, herbs and flowers, and more native species can be planted that benefit our shared environment.
Seeds from the plants that you grow can even be saved for use in following seasons and can be shared with neighbours or loved ones - or to start your own library.
Our seed collection is available to anyone who would like flowers from it, and the current varieties include Calendula, Cosmos, Zinnia, Sunflower, Marigold, Starflower and Yarrow.
Please feel free to send an email to hello@dewhurstflowers.com and your desired seeds will be sent to you (within Canada) at no cost. The seed library operates year round.