The Nova Scotia Organic Growers Association (NSOGA) website [ http://gks.com/NSOGA/ ] is full of useful information for growers of all kinds, including urban gardeners and landscapers. One feature item is an extensive listing of organic seed sources. Their excellent summary, Organic Soil Amendments & Pest Control Sources, is listed here with permission:
Abbott Laboratories Limited. Box 19, Freelton, ON, L0R 1K0, tel: 905-659-0886, fax: 905-659- 0885.
Supplier of B.t. products.
Acadian Seaplants Ltd. 30 Brown Ave, Dartmouth, NS, B3B 1X8, tel: 902-468-2840, fax: 902-468- 3474.
Kelp meal, and soluble seaweed powder.
Annapolis Valley Peat Moss Co. Ltd. Berwick, NS, B0P 1E0, tel: 1-800-565-1410, fax: 902-538-9609,
avpeaton@istar.ca, avpmoss@valleyweb.com. Annapolis Valley Peat Moss sells peat moss and other growing media. Most of their products are produced in either Berwick or PEI. The peat is sold in small bags, large compressed bricks and by the truckload. They also sell seed starting media --organic growers would likely want #5 pro-mix with no wetting agent added.
Bear Cove Resources. RR 1, Brooklyn, Queens Co., NS, B0J 1H0, tel: 902-354-3687
Composted seaweed.
Cavendish Agriculture. Kentville Plant, Box 247, Kentville, NS, B4N 3W4,tel: 902-678-6191, fax: 902-678-0659.
Soil amendments including calcitic lime and dolomitic lime.
Earth Wise Garden Products. 7 Maitland Ave., Hamilton, ON, L9A 3J4, tel: 905-318-8091, fax: 905-383-7770.
Soil amendments including rock phosphate, granite dust, greensand and more.
Farm with Ecological Agricultural Solutions & Energies (EASE). RR 1, Glassville, NB, E0J 1L0, tel/fax: 506-246-
5572.
Organic soil amendments including rock phosphate, basalt, kelp-meal and more.
Havelock Lime. PO Box 59, Havelock, NB, E0A 1W0, tel: 1-800-561-LIME, call to find the nearest dealer.
Manbico Biological Ltd. Box 17, Group 242, RR 2, Winnipeg, MB, R3C 2E6 tel: 204-697-0863, fax: 204-697-0887
Manbico carries a line of beneficial insects, beneficial organisms (including the variety of B.t. for Colorado potato beetle), and
other organic pest management products such as traps and repellants. They also carry interesting cover crop mixes, quartz
powder, biodynamic compost inoculant and more.
Mosher Limestone Co. Ltd. Upper Musquodoboit, NS B0N 2M0, tel: 902-568-2654, fax: 902-568-2983
Natural Insect Control. RR # 2, Stevensville, ON, L0S 1S0, tel: 905-382-2904, fax: 905-382- 4418., nic@niagara.com
Natural Insect Control supports an increase in biodiversity by promoting only non-toxic natural pest control. They encourage
people to support local wildlife by probing birdfeeders, martin houses, bat and bird houses, butterfly shelters and wildflowers
seed mixes. They also sell a huge range of beneficial organisms, ranging from toads to red wigglers to predatory wasps, pest
control products such as reemay and B.t., and books on organic pest control.
Natural Beginnings Box 21036, Dartmouth, NS, B2W 6B2, tel: 902-435-4882, fax: 902-435-1212, natural@isisnet.com.
Natural Beginnings is a Nova-Scotian owned business that sells a range of seeds and supplies for organic gardeners. The seeds are grown organically, open-pollinated and adapted to short, cool growing seasons and include vegetable, herb, flower and cover crop seeds. They also sell organic pest control products including a range of beneficial organisms, soil amendments and gardening accessories.
PEI Fish Fertilizers. Box 308, Souris, PEI, C0A 2B0, tel:902-687-2829, fax:902-687-4141
PEI Fish Fertilizers supplies much more than fish fertilizer including liquid and granular seaweed products, shrimp & crab meal, liquid fish emulsion, rock dust, rock phosphate, Sul-Po-Mag, mica dust, feather meal, blood meal, bone char, beneficial insects, diatomaceous earth and more. For fish fertilizer, they sell fish emulsion and Gardener’s Dream Plus, a fish and kelp emulsion (available in both small and bulk quantities).
Sea Spray. c/o Fraser Currie. tel: 705-439-2588, fax: 705-439-1416
Sea Spray is a certified organic liquid kelp concentrate.
Vigoro Canada Inc. 22 Clark St. E., Tillsonburg, ON, N4G 1C8, tel: 1-800-268-2076, fax:519-842- 2508.
Canagro organic fertilizers including bonemeal, bloodmeal etc.