As a small business, an essential part of our operating is supporting Indigenous-owned businesses & organizations, fellow small-scale farmers and female entrepreneurship.
If you're involved in a fundraising initiative 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 and growing 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 seeds. While there are many amazing community gardens who are providing no-cost or low-cost options for gardening space, what do you do if you can't afford the seeds to start?
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.
During our farmstand hours we'll have our free seed library available, and we encourage anyone who is interested to stop by to take seeds that interest them. 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.