Yes.

We are proud to be a female-founded and owned Canadian business. Our roots and home base are in Canada.

To continue growing sustainably, we now partner with a trusted U.S. manufacturer to ensure reliable, year-round production and to keep shipping costs as fair as possible for customers across North America.

Our blends are made with a careful selection of Canadian and internationally sourced ingredients, and every product is crafted to the same quality and allergen-safety standards we’ve always been known for.

Pretty much all bird seed and bird seed blends on the market (except for ours!) either contain peanuts or contain trace levels of peanuts or was manufactured and packaged in a facility that also uses peanuts (often all of the above).

This makes bird seed (except for ours!) unsafe for people with peanut allergies to use or be around.

We wanted to change that. Because we believe that everyone should be able to feed the birds worry and peanut free. Now you can.

Yes.

• All products are third-party lab-tested and certified peanut-free.
• Our facility is  peanut-free.

• Our products do not contain any tree nuts.
• Our facility is tree-nut-free.
• At this time, our individual ingredients are not lab-tested for trace amounts of tree nuts.

Please see our allergen statement (below)

Allergen Statement (Applies to All Products)

We understand first-hand how important it is to have allergen information you can trust. Clear, honest labelling helps everyone make the decisions that are right for them, so we aim to offer more transparency than most brands — without adding confusion or uncertainty.

Below is the full allergen picture for all of our products, including our outdoor birdseed blends and dog treats:

Peanuts

• All products are third-party lab-tested and certified peanut-free.
• Our facility is peanut-free.

Tree Nuts

• Our products do not contain any tree nuts.
• Our facility is tree-nut-free.
• At this time, our individual ingredients are not lab-tested for trace amounts of tree nuts.

Sesame, Milk, Eggs, Fish, Shellfish, Mustard

• Our products do not contain these allergens.
• Our facility is free of sesame, milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, and mustard.
• Our individual ingredients are not currently lab-tested for trace amounts of these allergens.

Sulphites

• Our products do not contain sulphites.

Priority Allergens (General)

• Other than peanuts, our ingredients and finished products are not currently lab-tested for trace amounts of priority allergens.

Wheat & Soy

• Our products do not contain wheat or soy.
• Our facility does handle wheat and soy, and we take care to keep these ingredients segregated from areas where our products are made.
• For this reason, we include the standard precautionary statement:
  
  “Manufactured in a facility that handles wheat and soy.”

No. We don't recommend feeding pet birds our outdoor bird seed. Our outdoor blends have a higher fat content, which is great for outdoor birds, but not so great for indoor pet birds.

Yes.

Our packaging journey is always evolving, with birds and the planet in mind.

Packaging, especially environmentally friendly packaging, is a very nuanced endeavour. 

Our packaging up until now has always been a combination of home and industrially (BPI certified) compostable material. And we (and our customers) have loved this option.

Home compostable is fantastic - but not everyone has a compost pile at home. Industrial composting is fantastic - but not everyone has access to those services (yet).

So, after continuing conversations with people way smarter than us and who are dedicated to and passionate about sustainable packaging, we’ve decided to switch things up and move to a more circular form of sustainability in the form of PCR (Post Consumer Recycled) packaging, meaning packaging made using recycled plastic waste collected from consumers, such as bottles and containers. It can then go on to be recycled into other items like textiles and decking material. This keeps things included in a circularity of use, and out of landfills. 

It’s also PFAS free. PFAS are those nasty forever chemicals. We really didn’t want to contribute to more of those.

We’ll continue to do our part to make sure that our packaging is as kind as it can be to the environment that the birds (and we) need and love. 

Yes.

Our birdseed blends are naturally non-GMO. The ingredients we use do not have GMO varieties, which means the blends are non-GMO by nature and by design.

No.

Did you know that many blends of wild bird seed can contain up to 70% (or more!) of filler seeds? They can. But not ours.

Filler seeds, like corn, wheat, milo (sorghum) and red millet, are seeds that backyard birds either aren't that fond of or don't eat. They make it seem like you're getting quite a bit of bird seed for not a lot of money but most of these seeds (and your money) just goes to waste. And, the seeds that are tossed to the ground (because the birds don’t like them), can get moldy, which can be very harmful to birds. If all that wasn’t reason enough to avoid filler seeds, these unwanted by the birds seeds can attract rodents, who are more than happy to enjoy them.

We decided very early on that we wanted nothing to do with fillers, even if it meant our blends would cost a bit more (and they do). We truly believe it's worth it, for the humans and the birds.

A re-cap about filler seeds

• Backyard birds aren't all that fond of them.
• Birds toss them to the ground, which can cause mold and attract rodents.
• Your money, along with the filler seeds, just goes to waste.
• You're not attracting near the amount of birds you could be with quality seeds birds actually love.

(To be fair, there are birds that will eat these filler seeds, but they’re largely either ‘nuisance’ birds that you really don’t want at your feeders, like European Starlings and House Sparrows (both of which are considered invasive species in North America) or birds that don’t frequent backyard feeders such as quail, pheasants and turkeys.)

Life can be complicated enough, especially when you’re navigating it with a peanut (or any) allergy, and so we wanted to keep things simple and create just one blend (ok, two) that offered Something for Everyone. Inclusive. Simple.

Our blends contain only premium seeds that all the backyard seed-eating birds truly love (no fillers, ever). These are black oil sunflower seeds, sunflower chips, safflower seeds and white proso millet. Some birds love one of these over the other, but there’s something for everyone.

If you were wanting to use only ONE kind of seed, instead of a blend, then black oil sunflower seeds are the ones to use. (we donate 25% of net proceeds from every bag sold of our black oil sunflower seeds to charities supporting the people of Ukraine. Did you know that sunflower seeds are Ukraine’s national flower? They are. We wanted to do something to help and this seemed a fitting way.)

You could also use only sunflower chips (which just means that the outer shell has already been removed). This is a great option if you’re not keen on the sunflower shells gathering under your feeders (they can be great for your garden) or your feeder is on a patio or balcony where discarded shells might be a bit unsightly or inconvenient.