Black Friday Cyber Monday 2011 Seeds on Sale in our Etsy Shop

To help you Shop Local, Buy Handmade, Shop Indie and Support Small Business Saturday (I think that's all the tag lines) we're having one last promotion before the holidays and it's a big one!  

Use coupon code BLACKFRIDAY20 for 20% off all seeds in our etsy shop.  Each order placed between Black Friday, Novemeber 25th and Cyber Monday, November 28th will receive a free package of organic basil seeds and another coupon for 20% in the new year!

Order one of our package deals, seed of the month subscriptions, or gift certificates and receive free shipping on your entire order.

Wordless Wednesday: Dandelion Seed Pack

Can you believe you used to be able to buy dandelion seeds? This was in my mix of seed pack labels from Simply French Vintage.  I'm framing it.

BARN SALE! As in we'd like to buy a barn so we are having a sale.

First step in buying this barn so my dog can do this all the time?

Clear out some of this extra stock from our etsy shop:

So we're having a sale! A fabulous sale! 

A limited time offer of 9 packs of our fabulous Organic Seeds for only $25! That's well over $5 of savings.


These are surprise selections of our favourite rare, heirloom and organic seeds for your garden. We're over stocked on some varieties and would like to clean up our inventory. 


There are 5 different packages to chose from:

a rainbow of our heirloom tomatoes

a cornucopia of all our seeds

herbs

for the vegetable garden

greens and lettuces

This is a great way to prepare for next year's gardening season or get a late planting in with our great heirloom, rare and organic seeds.

FREE SHIPPING IN CANADA AND THE USA!

{ sale ends June 30th, 2011 or when sale stock runs out }

Something fun in the mail today! 1920's seed pack labels!

Look what came in the mail today:

from Simply French Vintage.  Who are actually English and spend their summers in France antiquing.

Vintage 1920's seed pack labels!  Check out the fabulous carrot illustrations.

French breakfast radishes are apparently not called French in France.

Cauliflower, Chantenay Carrots, and a lovely Tomato.

Red Lettuce (oops, actually Chicory) and Basil.  I'm going to add some of these images to my listings.

A big part of why I like these so much is because much of the inspiration for Cubit's came from watching the kitchen gardens go by out the train windows in France.  I had been working on the business idea for a little while but those gardens really helped me narrow things down.  Growing food, no matter where you live,  is what it's all about.

Here's an Etsy treasury I made for Euro Week celebrating those same gardens.

Seedy Sunday Toronto Recap

We had such a great time on Seedy Sunday yesterday.  It is so much fun talking to people and selling our seeds in person. The excitement for spring is simply contagious.  Seeing friends, old Internet buddies and meeting people like Dana and Joel from Well Preserved was also great.  Getting out of our Internet bubbles and talking face-to-face is really refreshing, especially near the end of a long winter.

This year's haul

I was able to keep my own seed hording under control this year with a just a few trades and just two seed purchases: some morning glories from my booth neighbors Terra Edibles and some Black Palm Kale from matchbox gardens.

What I mainly wanted was some more blue potatoes from Cedar Grove Organic Farm but I accidently grabbed purple. They’re gorgeous but I’ll have to keep looking for blue.  I’m really excited for the Rose Finn Apple potatoes though; they’re a really nice looking reddish fingerling variety.  I’ll grow these in the old claw foot bathtub in the back yard along with a bag of red potatoes from our good food box that accidently grew a million eyes.

Some of last year's All Blues

I also picked up a bag of worm castings amended for growing tomatoes.  Its from Annelid Cycle out of London Ontario, which is apparently a great place to have a warehouse full of worms.  That’s right, a WAREHOUSE OF WORMS.   Our soil isn’t great and I’m hoping this will help. I’ll be running a few tests with this and will fill you in on the results in the spring.

The best thing we came across is this great little book by Lara Lucretia Mrosovsky.  An Illustrated Guide to Growing Food on Your Balcony is just packed with great information and really fun illustrations.  It goes through everything from what sized container to use for what plant to how to compost on your balcony.  I also like its Torontoness, the cover features an illustration of St James Town.  Lara is currently raising funds to publish a bigger run of her book over on kickstarter.  For a $10 contribution to her campaign you’ll get your own copy when she hits her target.  I’ll be talking about this again in a few weeks.

Here’s a video that shows the whole project in great detail:

Here are a few photos of the event:

Again, I cannot work without the Ergo

Messy seeds are serious business

Hart House was a really nice venue

Seed browsing at our table

We'll be at both the North York and Scarborough Events in the next few weeks. Swing by and talk carrots.

Event: Seedy Saturday (on a Sunday)

Being a foot deep in snow, it is hard to believe that spring is around the corner.

The first definitive sign for us is always Seedy Saturday and it is coming up in just a few days.

Put together by Seeds of Diversity, Seedy Saturday events happen all over Canada and we're excited to once again be participating in the Toronto and Scarborough events. We'll also be at the North York event for the first time.

There will be a huge market place of heirloom seeds, books, great tools and interesting gardening supplies, information from government and non-government organizations, and the biggest seed swap you could ever imagine.

Get there early, garlic and seed potatoes tend to sell out with in the first hour.

Here’s a great photo from last year's event at the Wychwood Art Barns.  
Doesn't everybody have a huge anti-Monsato banner in their family portraits?

The details:

Seedy Saturday (on a Sunday) Toronto 

Sunday, February 13th, 2011

12:30pm - 6:00pm

Hart House, University of Toronto

7 Hart House Circle

Toronto, On

RSVP to the facebook event.

Seedy Saturday Scarborough 

Saturday March 12, 2011

12:00pm - 4:00pm

Heron Park Community Centre

292 Manse Road

Scarborough, On



North York Seedy Sunday 

Sunday, March 27th

1:00 to 5:00

Lawrence Heights Community Centre

5 Replin Road, just off Lawrence Avenue West

North York, On

Project 365: week five: January 29th - February 4th, 2011

Project 365: week five: January 29th - February 4th, 2011


I am uploading to flickr daily, check it out.

January 29th, 2011 Franny and Zooey: Love cats

January 30th, 2011 I was very sick so Becca stepped up and answered all the convos.

January 31st, 2011 Ladies (& Dax) came over with lunch and picked all the seed orders while I laid on the couch.

February 1st, 2011 Not-So-Tiny-Rebecca in the Tiny Prints box my business cards came in.

February 2nd, 2011 Snow Day in Toronto. 

February 3rd, 2011 Hazel, the face of Cubit's is ready for the post office.  This is what 3 front pages in one week look like. 

February 4th, 2011 I like getting seeds in the mail as much as I like sending them.  Blue Tomatoes! I can't wait!

Project 365: week two: January 8th-14th 2011

Here are this week's project 365 photos.  A little heavy on the baby photos I know, but we've been stuck in the house packing seeds and picking Etsy orders.  I'm already getting to know the new camera so much better.  I think we are going to be good friends.

January 8th, 2011
Rebecca's first sled ride to Cassel's Park

January 9th, 2011
Rebecca and some fancy organic dough.

January 10th, 2011
A montessori moment 

January 11th, 2011
Rebecca has excellent baby wearing form.

January 12th, 2011
Perfect Pumpkin Seeds ready to pack

January 13th, 2011
Somebody will not go to bed.

January 14th, 2011
Hazel and Alpine.  Ferocious snow beasts.

Wordless Wednesday: So many Seeds

January is one of our busiest  seed selling months with February actually being the busiest.  We're neck deep in seed packing right now, so although I have about a dozen half written posts the blog is going to be slightly neglected for the next month.

Here are some gorgeous Rouge Vif D'Etampes Pumpkin Seeds about to be counted out. We make and pack every packet by hand, which sometimes feels a little overwhelming, but it really does ensure the seed is perfect.

Come and check out #seedchat on twitter tonight.  I'm hosting a La Leche League Meeting so I'll likely only be there for the end, but we'll be giving out 2 prize packs of seeds to participants.  Check out www.seedchat.com for details.

Announcement: Black Friday & Cyber Monday Sale!

A SALE IN OUR ETSY SHOP!

The perfect time to stock up on seeds for spring or gather some stocking stuffers for the gardeners in your life.

From Thursday, November 25th, 2010 To Monday, November 29th, 2010 use etsy coupon code BLACKFRIDAY2010 to take 20% off your entire order. Our prices always include free shipping.

Enjoy even better deals with our package deals and grab bags.

4 packs of your choice for $10.00 or 10 packs of your choice $20.00!

And our surprise grab bag is a great deal 20 packs of our choice for only $35.00!


More good news, we've been on the front page twice today!

Cubit's on Etsy is up and running

Cubit's is pleased to announce that in addition to using www.cubitsorganics.com's shopping cart, you can now shop for seeds at our Etsy shop.


Swing on over to the Etsy shop to check out our end of summer sale. Pick up a Grab Bag of 20 packs of organic seeds for $25! We'll send you a variety of seeds for next year's garden and shipping is even included.