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We are a non-profit called "Wings and Wildflowers Society", here's our website: www.thepetalparadise.com
Follow our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/petal.paradise.project?igsh=dWZkdjlreTRnaHls
About the project
We're raising funds to create a floral eco-sanctuary for our pollinators - bees, hummingbirds and butterflies. Right now we are renting some farmland in Tsawwassen (Delta), BC. Our ultimate goal is to buy land to set up a vast wildflower habitat, complete with native and nectar rich flora. It will be established to provide feeding, breeding and shelter grounds for these magnificent animals.
The aim is to create a flower festival around this magical wildflower wonderland for humans to also enjoy, and learn about the critical role of pollinators in our world. The festival is an outlet through which to celebrate the natural world, de-stress and enrich the mind, while also teaching new skills with workshops.
Activities and engagements:
- Workshops (gardening, beekeeping, yoga, crafting, wellness etc.)
- Picnic huts surrounded by sensory flowers (think pet me, smell me, eat me plants)
- Living floral sculpture competition
- Lawn games for adults & children
- Cut your own bouquet
- Maze - sunflower/corn
- Connection with nature
- Raising pollinator awareness and care
Every little helps! No donation too small.
If you would like to get involved in any way e.g.
- donating/planting seed
- contributing funds
- participating in planting parties (let's get silly on sunflowers)
- building cool structures for plants to grow on
- marketing skills etc.
Please get in touch with Jess through the contact button on this page.
About Jess
(Founder of Wings & Wildflowers Society, Presenter of The Petal Paradise)
You may recogonize me as your friendly neighbourhood flower fairy, geurilla gardening side walk patches, or as a Butterflyway Ranger installing pollinator habitats around Vancouver.
I have been bringing the dream of a pollinator paradise-flower festival into realisation for 7 years. To create meaningful change for polliantors and people, so that we all have a fantastical space to play, luxuriate and invigorate in. Every third bite of food you eat wouldn't be possible without a pollinator. Globally, about 75% of the world's leading food crops depend, either directly or indirectly, on animal pollination. So sanctuary for them is sanctuary for us and you're making a massive positive impact by helping this project.
Since 2018 I've put in countless hours, money, smiles, tears, fears, courages and the rest to get closer and closer to launching this bad boy! In 2025 things have reached a critical mass where a great piece of land in Tsawwassen, BC has been secured and the stage is set to launch this flower festival in summer 2026 - now I would be so incredibly grateful to have your help to push it over the line!!!
Where your generosity fans a flurry of flourishment in the funding milestones:
- $2,000: We reached this goal to replace stolen seeds - Thank you!!!!
- $16,000: Water infrastructure for flower farming
- $5,500: Tractor and labour services to clear land and get it seed ready
- $8,000: Native plants and nectar rich plants and flower bulbs which will offer delicious resources for our flying friends, and sensory engagement for us humanoids. This is the amount required to plant our 3 acres at 2000 52 St, Delta (in front of Tsawwassen Mills (come say hi)).
- $6,000: Compost to improve soil structure
- $3,000: Tools to work the land
