Stratford nursery part of garden giveaway program

NEWS RELEASE
COMMONWELL MUTUAL INSURANCE GROUP
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Ready, set, grow! Starting on Wednesday, May 1,  The Commonwell Mutual Insurance Group is opening the floodgates to their relentlessly positive gardening centre voucher giveaway. The program dubbed ‘SEEDit,’ is providing Ontarians with a record 5,500 $50 individual garden centre vouchers this year. The program will help residents get their home gardens growing and provide an ‘organic’ way for them to share a bounty of produce with their communities

This year, the Commonwell is also expanding to the Commonwell country areas in southwestern Ontario.
 
“With the cost-of-living crunch and rising food prices impacting the food security of Ontarians, we felt it was an ideal time to expand the SEEDit program to a record 6,000 $50 vouchers,” said Tim Shauf, president and CEO of The Commonwell Mutual Insurance Group. “This is a tangible way for Ontarians to feed themselves fresh, healthy produce and share their bounty with local foodbanks, and neighbours.”
 
Voucher registration opens Wednesday, May 1 at noon by visiting this website.
 
The SEEDit program also has a highly engaged Facebook group of 3,600 aspiring gardeners that provide both practical and personal advice to each other to build a bumper crop. The SEED-it Facebook community can be found here
 
While supplies last, the vouchers are available to residents across ‘Commonwell Country,’ the towns and villages and everything in between, that The Commonwell serves including: Alexandria, Arnprior, Barrie, Baltimore, Belleville, Bracebridge, Braeside, Brechin, Brighton, Brockville, Cameron, Calabogie, Carlton Place, Coburg, Colbourne, Coldwater, Collingwood, Cornwall, Embrun, Foxboro, Durham, Goderich, Grand Bend, Grafton, Gravenhurst, Havelock, Hawkesbury, Hillier, Huntsville, Innisfill, Kemptville, Kingston, Kincardine, Lindsay, Listowell, Madoc, Manotick, Meadford, Midland, Minden, Mono, Nappanee, Navan, Orangeville, Orillia, Owen Sound,  Parry Sound, Pembroke, Perth, Peterborough, Plantagenet, Prince Edward County, Prescott, Renfrew, Selby, Smiths Falls, St. Paul’s, Stratford, Sydenham, Thomasburg, Wasaga Beach and all of the other smaller places and wide open spaces.

Participating garden centres:

About SEEDit:

SEEDit was started by The Commonwell in 2021 to keep busy during continued lock downs and increased food insecurity. The company is proudly continuing the program, now in in its 4^th year because families across the province still struggle with food insecurity, high costs of living and want to become more self-sufficient. The Commonwell’s roots in farming inspire them to educate their communities on backyard agriculture and the mutual spirit of working together to fight food insecurity.

Since 2021 The Commonwell estimates 50,000lbs of produce has been shared in Ontario communities through the program.

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