Seed sales blossoming as gardeners try to avoid U.S. produce [Video]

Like so many people these days, Natasha Nash has been trying to buy Canadian.

But at the grocery store, Nash said, some homegrown produce is proving hard to find — particularly broccoli and celery.

“If I’m going to the grocery store and I see a head of broccoli is … coming from a U.S. farm, I just don’t [buy it],” she said. 

That’s why Nash is one of many Ottawans growing more of the fruits and vegetables her family relies on in her own backyard.

Nash said she doesn’t want her family “to be so dependent on outside resources, especially considering how volatile they are right now.” 

Local seed suppliers tell CBC that Nash isn’t alone.

Several say they’ve seen sales rise in recent weeks and suspect Ottawans are increasingly planting their own gardens as a way to supplement their groceries amid Canada’s trade war with the United States.