Our Story
We are a 10-acre seed farm located in beautiful rural Metchosin on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
Established in 2004, we grow 300+ varieties of seed products including unusual food crops, roots/tubers, native plants and perennial fruits.
We are a woman owned company, founded by ethnobotanist Fiona Hamersley Chambers.
We are grateful to farm, live and raise our family on the ancestral lands of the Beecher Bay Scia’new First Nation and acknowledge the 1000's of years of land stewardship that produced the soils that we now steward.
What is The Forager Pet?
We offer 100% Canadian Grown, Certified Organic (IOPA #1964) Forage and Enclosure Enrichment for small pets!
Metchosin Farm started the Forager Pet in 2022 in response to a customer request, and we are the only Canadian supplier of this high quality product!
As an experienced seed farm growing 300+ plant varieties we are able to provide uniquely diverse and high quality pet forage unavailable from any 'normal' supplier. :-)
Our hope is that you begin by trying our Forager Pet products, and then become inspired to start growing and harvesting your own food garden where you provide for you and your pets....
Journey with us!
Become a part of our little community of Forager Farmers who want to feed their families, their pets, and their mind!
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Let customers speak for us
Seeds as expected
Seeds as expected. Waiting until next spring to see the results!
Its fall and I wont start these til April
Its fall and I wont start these til April sometime, but the service to get the seeds was great and fast
Fast and prompt
Fast and prompt, wonderful to work with! Will be ordering again from this company!!
Potato seeds
Fast delivery with lots of healthy looking seeds! Securely packaged with a planting instructions on the back which is super helpful. Love the cute picture on the seed pack and am very excited to plant these next spring! Will certainly be ordering from metchosin farm again
smokem if you got
smokem if you got em!
Amazing yields
Thanks from a former student. Grow a garden everywhere you go!
stratifying the seeds
Thanks. Just started stratifying the seeds with a plant to start seedings in Feb and plant in March.
Love it!
I love this corn. I bought it largely
Because I’d read it was well suited to container gardening.
When I went to plant this year I had probably half a package left from 3 years ago and thought I’d give it a try but was worried it might be old. Every single
seed germinated. I grew half on my deck in containers and half in the strip of very, very, very poor quality dirt between my driveway and my neighbours at the from of my house (zone 3, short hot summer). The batch on the deck didn’t pollinate as well, its a high deck and despite
Planting a lot more flowers this year we
Don’t get a lot of pollinators and I didn’t shake the corn) but we got some corn. The patch at the front of the house had corn on every stalk, Many with 2 or 3 ears.
I let it over ripen because I forgot that as a dwarf corn the ears would be small, so it wasn’t tender but even chewy and overripe the flavour was delicious (and the chewy and overripe was on me).
Highly recommend, just make sure you pick earlier than I did.
We did get a surprising number of tassel ears, not sure if that’s a trait of the variety or if it was just a weird fluke for us.
Going to dry some and see if it pops.
perfect seeds i'll take some more to start next season
perfect seeds i'll take some more to start next season.
thank you
Colorado Columbines my experiences
All the seeds sprouted just waiting for the flowers.
Soon from the looks of things.
Learned about columbines riding above the tree line in the Colorado Rockies many years ago. They were everywhere. Beautiful
Seeds germinated well.
Sunchoke order
The sunchokes were very well packaged and arrived in excellent condition. I was impressed at how healthy they were. They are growing well and I look forward to tasting them for the first time.
tobacco seeds
I am just getting emergence now and will report back when I have plants that are 4 to 8 inches tall....fingers crossed..
Sweet Wormwood
Arrived quickly and excellent germination.
Very Impressed
Product arrived early, sprouted near immediately, and has been holding up fantastic. Incredibly pleased with the supplier