2021 gardenologie Holiday Gift Guide
It’s that time of year and we have compiled a list of our favorite products and services to consider for your holiday gifting needs.
As always, our focus is primarily on small businesses and service providers with excellent offerings for the home gardener, aspiring farmer and garden-to-table cook.
We have broken down our list into Melissa’s Picks and Luay’s Picks, although we both love all these small businesses and the people behind them.
Melissa’s Picks
Want a well made raised garden bed that uses recycled materials? Look no further than Raised Garden Beds. These easy to assemble garden vessels come in a large variety of sizes and heights. Perfect for any backyard garden project!
These beds have been used in client garden installations with amazing results.
Learn cut flower gardening from the best of the best. This seminal work by Erin Benzakein at Floret is a must on any gardener’s bookshelf. Want to up your gifting game? Subscribe to Discovery + and gift it to your flower loving friend to watch the Magnolia series on Erin’s incredible farm in the Skagit Valley.
The gift of fresh flowers is one that many treasure, make the flowers from a local Toronto store that grow their own blooms! Euclid Farms bouquet subscriptions come in three price points and never disappoint.
Essential Plant Probiotic is a live, fermented soil amendment that restores microbes in depleted and nutritionally imbalanced soils.
Luay’s Picks
Handmade, organic and medicinal salves, balms and bath salts from Homestead and Chill. Deanna is an inspirational gardener and businesswoman.
Does someone in your life have a budding interest in fermentation and food preservation? The Noma Guide to Fermentation is a beautifully written and photographed book that will inspire beginner to expert fermenters. From the chefs behind Noma, Three Michelin Star restaurant in Copenhagen.
Seed Organization and Seeds
Stay on top of your seed organization with this robust and useful photo organizer. Yes, a photo organizer! The 4x6 inserts are the perfect size to store your seed packets and keep them away from the elements.
These can be found at most craft supply stores and online.
Seed packets are a perfect stocking stuffer for the gardener in your life. Our favorite seed suppliers include Johnny’s Selected Seeds and West Coast Seeds.
For Canadian shoppers, Luay offers curated seed collections over at Urban Farm and Kitchen.
Small batch, local raw honey! Produced by hives in Markham, Ontario.
Give the gift of knowledge, support and community. Our gardening Master Class has been gifted for the holidays, for Mother’s and Father’s Days, and for birthdays. Let us know you’re purchasing the the class as a gift and we will make a custom printable card you can give to your loved one.
We wish you all a safe and happy holiday season, as we start congregating and celebrating again after a difficult couple couple of years.
