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CLEAN OUT YOUR UNWANTED STUFF! DONATE IT TO SEEDS YARD SALE AUG. 9TH, 2014 4 Browning Ave. 9a.m.-3p.m. Call Joanne at 647 444-5534 for pick up from your house or drop items off in the enclosed front porch of 4 Browning Ave. Proceeds go to www.sendseedstoafrica.org Click here!

Monday, March 31,2014 , I thought of you Carl at 3:35 a.m. as I heard my first rooster crow. You’ll be happy to know the dogs were fairly quiet at that particular moment. “Moment”, is the key word here as I am sure you remember. Here’s to the first of 30 days i

S.O.S. I am jumping a head of myself as I had planned to write the blogs in chronological order so I could tell you the whole story of my trip in April 2014 to Zambia. Unfortunately I found out two weeks after I came home that the bore hole we use to water the resource garden and tree

I was so excited to go to Lusaka, the capital city of Zambia as I was meeting four very special people. Fredrick, our manager for SEEDS based in Mongu whom I had last seen in August 2012. William, a wonderful man who is raising his deceased sister’s children plus his own. Paul,

  It wasn’t all work building the resource garden and tree nursery. We were entertained as well! Great Fun was had by all. Thanks Scimakando! I can’t seem to publish the video without cutting off most of your head and feet. It is not like that on my copy. Sorry! It wa

SEEDS had a table at Christie Pits on May 24,2014 which was the final destination of “The March Against Monsanto”.   It was a huge success for a great cause put on by www.TorontoNonGMOCoalition. org. which is made up of many organizations, of which SEEDS is now includ

  It has now been 3 years since I have been researching Zambia, agriculture, GMO’s, organic gardening, permaculture and SEEDS. Actually 9 years if you include the research I did when I found out my sponsored child lived in Zambia in 2005 when he was 10 years old. On this tr

We did it! Mukutele (Welcome in Silozi) I arrived back home to Canada on May 1st. 16lbs lighter in weight but gained a ton in knowledge. You don’t realize how much you can learn about survival, compassion and hard work until you have seen it done with your own eyes. I spent 30 d

Well, I was all packed last Sunday March 23, 2014, I have my clothes ready for tomorrow March 29, 2014 and I hope I can sleep tonight!   When I deliver this 24lbs of vegetable seeds I will have sent 3,445,785 seeds to Zambia. Each bag is with a binder of “How to Grow”

What does philanthropy mean to you? Tell us your story! That was the question asked by the Rockefeller Foundation on their web site and sent out to their email list. The answers were written into a beautiful piece of art done by Phil Hansen. My answer was “Philanthropy is actual