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Food to Grow with Frankie Flowers

Seedy Saturday Online

Get tips on how to evaluate your garden space and select smart plant choices that will match your growing conditions and experience.

Listen as Frankie Flowers helps you evaluate your garden space and select smart plant choices that will match your growing conditions and experience. Explore an entire growing season from prepping and planning, to planting, weeding and harvesting. Discover which veggies, fruits and herbs have become Frankie's favourites, and those that should be avoided in your garden paradise. Bring your questions and get ready to grow your knowledge, with a local expert.

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Frankie Flowers

Frank Ferragine AKA “Frankie Flowers” is arguably Canada’s most popular and trusted gardening expert and weatherman.  He is known for his ability to combine practical gardening advice with humour, and loves to share his passion for everything outdoors with the world.  Frankie’s garden advice has twice earned him Landscape Ontario’s Garden Communicator of the Year, he has been named Toronto’s Favourite Weather Personality 8 years consecutively (Toronto Sun Reader’s Award) and his Disney inspired Tinker Bell Garden won 3 awards including public choice and best overall garden at Canada Blooms.

Frankie is a four-time best selling author, consultant, garden writer, social media strategist, philanthropist and probably his favourite role, a father of two boys, Gavin and Matheson!  Frankie’s family runs one of the largest combined greenhouse/garden centre operations in Ontario www.bradfordgreenhouses.com.

Frankie believes that life should be fun and lives every day by the mantra “if you are green you are growing!"

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Visit our virtual Green Expo to discover local community gardens, seed libraries, gardening clubs and more! We would like to acknowledge our community partners who help with food & seed security in our community: Community Gardens - City of Barrie; Urban Pantry; Barrie Urban Gardeners; Little Food Pantry Project; Living Green and Bass Lake Farms.

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