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Sent Seeds in November
Dec 12, 2018
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The rains have slowly started falling in Zambia so this is the time to send seeds. This is Colin, one of our student volunteers working with SEEDS towards his community hours for high school. Colin is dividing up the seeds into five bags to send to Mongu, Kalabo, Sioma, Chipata &
Read MorePlanting Baobab trees across Barotseland
Nov 27, 2018
For #Giving Tuesday through Canada Helps, https://www.canadahelps.org/en/ we will be collecting donations to distribute 50 (100 seeds/pod) of the iconic Baobab seed pods to Barotseland and 7 cities in Zambia for planting. Sioma, Kalabo, Mongu, Kaoma, Mumbwa, Chipata and Katete. Please
Read MoreSEEDS Garage Sales & SEEDS Zambia have expanded!
Oct 27, 2018
Today, October 29th, 2018 is our Fifth Anniversary as a Registered Canadian Charity and we have grown more than I could have ever imagined. We now have two garages and a store, SEEDS Garage Sales, 1 Browning Ave. Toronto, M4K 1V6, phone 647 444 -5534. https://goo.gl/maps/pd9ydaaTNKk
Read MoreCompulsive Viewing
Great show with issues very close to my heart! Anthony Bourdain-PARTS UNKNOWN-Kenya,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaPYM9hrUVE . As Anthony Bourdain was sitting with comedian W. Kamau Bell overlooking a majestic landscape in Kenya, he said, ” This should be compulsive reviewing
Read MoreRegenerate Now for future use!
Sep 20, 2018
Holistic Assessment.. Are we borrowing from future generations and leaving them in overwhelming debt… or giving them a platform to also enjoy healthy, wealthy lives? It’s more useful to consider ‘Holistic Debt’ which would consider both short and long term asse
Read MoreSEEDS Garage is full
Thank you to everyone who has donated gently used items to SEEDS Garage Sales Store but we are full to bursting. We have to gear down to fit into our 300 sq ft. space when the snow flies so we will be very selective as to what we will accept. Please feel free to donate your items to a
Read MoreCrop Calendar-Plan ahead so you know when to plant!
Aug 11, 2018
Below is a Crop Calendar to know when to plant and to expect your harvest in the areas we work in Zambia. Have a look at the calendar below to plan when you will plant your next crop. The upper part of the chart is for Chipata & Katete, the middle and lower sections of the
Read MoreElephants released into the wild
Jul 17, 2018
I met the three beauties, Zambezi, Nkala & Musilalli who are now at The Lilayi Elephant Nursery in Lusaka Zambia. I am so pleased to hear, after their amazing care at Lilayi, the older two Njanji And Kakaro have been released into a wild heard. Here is the story from Game Rangers
Read MoreSleeping with your crops
Jul 05, 2018
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Have you ever imagined having to sleep on a raised platform with a mosquito net so you could scare elephants away from your crops during the night? It is quite a common practice that farmers in Africa will have plots of land quite far from where they live with their families. In Afric
Read MoreMaps
