The Avant-Garden Shop: Your Garden & Bird Store

GARDEN GATE: Episode 322 – Offering Water To Birds – (Aug 1, 2025)

It’s been a really hot summer so far! Many days without rain makes it harder for our bird friends to find a cool drink. There are many ways you can help, which will also bring more birds to your yard. Hanging bird baths, hanging waterers, pedestal bird baths, even small dishes of water left out … Read more

GARDEN GATE: Episode 321 – Keeping Kids Busy This Summer – (June 20, 2025)

Getting kids to help in the garden is a great way to get them outside this summer and away from those screens! We have colorful metal tools, watering cans, thermometers, reversible sunhats, and gardening gloves for little ones. For the older kids we have bug catchers, nets, activity books, soapstone carving kits, solar print kits … Read more

GARDEN GATE: Episode 317 – Mad Cap Hats are back! (April 25, 2025)

After a few years hiatus, Mad Cap hats are back in the shop! These hats are the original handmade creations of Tori Capes, a certified milliner! For 38 years these beautiful hats have been designed and created in a scenic lakeside studio near Westport Ontario. These adjustable Sunblocker hats are their most popular sun hat, … Read more

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