{"id":29337,"date":"2023-04-26T14:26:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T18:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/editionap.ca\/?p=29337"},"modified":"2025-12-22T13:29:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:29:22","slug":"gardening-grant-fights-food-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refletnews.ca\/en\/societe\/gardening-grant-fights-food-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardening grant fights food insecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a total donation of $225,000, the Commonwell Mutual Insurance Group is holding the third iteration of its highly successful \u201cSEEDit\u201d program, which will give away $50 garden centre vouchers to 4500 individuals across Ontario to help them get their home gardens growing. The program has been going since 2021 and has been a great success every year, even crashing The Commonwell\u2019s website with how popular it was. Many green thumbs tried to sign up online the second the giveaway opened at midnight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith food prices and food insecurity rising in Ontario, we\u2019re thrilled to announce that 2023 will have a record number of voucher giveaways,\u201d said Tim Shauf, President and CEO of The Commonwell Mutual Insurance Group. \u201cWe decided to increase the program this year to 4500, $50 garden centre vouchers and strongly encourage families to share their bounty of produce with local foodbanks and neighbours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is a SEEDit program Facebook group at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/798694074394163\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/798694074394163<\/a> where veteran and aspiring gardeners gather to seek help, share practical and personal advice, and show off what they\u2019ve grown. There are currently over 2,400 members and counting.<\/p>\n<p>The SEEDit program giveaway opens on May 1 at noon. Participants must register at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecommonwell.ca\/seedit\">www.thecommonwell.ca\/seedit<\/a> while voucher supplies last and choose which garden centre to redeem their voucher at. Participating garden centres include Denise &amp; Sylvain Garden Centre at 767 Notre-Dame Street in Embrun, and Les Serres Quenneville at 5690 County Road 17 in Plantagenet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third annual \u201cSEEDit\u201d program is giving Ontarians the opportunity to start their own home gardens. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":29338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-societe"],"acf":[],"featured_media_global":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gardening grant fights food insecurity - Le Reflet \/ The News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/refletnews.ca\/en\/societe\/gardening-grant-fights-food-insecurity\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gardening grant fights food insecurity - 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