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Sweet-Seed "Micro-Batch" Bird Feed

Makers of all-natural, ultra-premium wild bird feeding products. What do your favorite wild birds crave?

We have created our entire line of Sweet-Seed™ micro batch wild bird feeding products by first asking ourselves this one important question. Whether selecting dried mulberries for our seed blends, hand distilled floral extracts for our nectars, California almonds for our treats, or whole crickets for our suet; we start with this question in mind. The result is what we proudly believe to be the first ultra-premium line of wild bird feeding products in today’s market.

03/06/2025

https://sweet-seed.com/blog/do-hummingbirds-drink/

Understanding hummingbirds’ liquid needs can help you be sure you are providing both nectar and water in the right way for these birds to thrive.

21/05/2025

https://sweet-seed.com/blog/can-hummingbirds-fly-in-the-rain/

From spring showers to summer thunderstorms to autumn drenchers, rain is very beneficial to all birds. But can the tiniest of birds fly in the rain, or are hummingbirds grounded when raindrops begin to fall?

13/05/2025

How Many Hummingbird Feeders Is Too Many?

It starts with one, then two, then three, four, and five – is it possible to have too many hummingbird feeders? The answer will vary for every hummingbird lover.

01/05/2025

What Month Do You Put Out Hummingbird Feeders?

What month do you put out hummingbird feeders to offer a fast and convenient meal these flitting fliers? The answer isn’t always clearcut.

24/04/2025

https://sweet-seed.com/blog/how-do-hummingbirds-pollinate/
Understanding how hummingbirds pollinate can help you put these little flying jewels to work in your garden, flowerbeds, and landscape!

Understanding how hummingbirds pollinate can help you put these little flying jewels to work in your garden, flowerbeds, and landscape!

25/03/2025

Birders who know when hummingbirds migrate can be prepared with gardens filled with colorful blooms and feeders filled with fresh nectar to welcome every hummingbird.

https://sweet-seed.com/blog/when-hummingbirds-migrate/

08/07/2024

https://sweet-seed.com/blog/taking-hummingbird-feeders-in-at-night/

There are many benefits to taking hummingbird feeders in at night, and it can be a great practice to safeguard both your feeders and the hummingbirds they nurture.

07/06/2024

https://sweet-seed.com/blog/how-to-stop-hummingbirds-hitting-windows/

Hummingbirds are more vulnerable to window collisions than many other species. With care, however, it is possible to stop hummingbirds from hitting windows and protect them from these dangerous obstacles.

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Our Story (i.e. “Why on earth did you decide to get into the wild bird feed business?” )

A fair question to be sure. It’s one that I don’t have a terribly practical answer for. Then again, practicality has never done much to get me out of bed in the morning anyway. No, the truth is, Sweet-Seed wasn’t born from some brainstorming session in a boardroom somewhere (that was the kind of thing I had enough of in my “past life”). Instead, it was honestly started on little more than a hunch; that enough people cared about the same types of things that were instilled in me growing up. I don’t think that is something you will find in any business book, but it made all the sense in the world to me just the same.

My hope is to give you a quick peek into why we have decided to create Sweet-Seed, and why we continue to stick to our guns when it comes to creating our products the way we do. We know that sometimes this means our products are a bit more expensive, and sometimes we even miss out on opportunities because of our choice to do things a tad unconventionally, but we believe in what we are doing and why we are doing it.

I didn’t want to drone on about all the research that eventually went into creating our blends in this post. At least not yet. We will get into some of that here and on www.sweet-seed.com. Instead, I wanted to share a super quick story that I think sums up who we are as a company and why we have chosen to do things differently…even if it’s not necessarily the quickest way to get from “point a” to “point b.”

My first memories of wild bird feeding were born in what I like to think of as my “prime.” I couldn’t have been much more than five years-old, tagging along-side my grandfather, and casual wild bird admirer, “Papa B.” Together at his small kitchen table we enjoyed each other’s company during most summer afternoons, and that of the wild birds we could watch through his small kitchen window.

During those days I learned two important things about Papa B…

First, he seemed to find a source of pride, and maybe even peace, from this simple act of learning about, caring for and identifying the many boldly-colored wild birds who would stop for a brief moment at his feeders (cardinals and blue jays were his favorites).

Second, he found an even greater source of frustration in trying to keep his rivals, the “damned squirrels,” off of those same feeders.

If he had devised one, he must have concocted a thousand different contraptions of various levels of technical sophistication to deter the squirrels from raiding his precious seed stash. Milk jugs, soda bottles, platforms, flanges, strings and springs all spent time adorning his feeders at one point or another.

Yet the squirrels always prevailed.

Papa B’s daughter, and my mother, had always shared in his love of nature, and growing up I cannot recall a time that we did not also have at least a half-dozen feeders visible from our kitchen window. In fact, she can still be found feeding just about any creature that dares to venture far enough into the back yard to obtain it. No matter if a blue jay or finch, chipmunk or deer, or even Papa B’s nemesis…those damned squirrels.

Papa B passed away quite some time ago now, but his introduction to this seemingly simplistic pastime, wild bird feeding, has stayed with me to this day. I imagine that while you most likely are not in the wild bird feed business (kudos to you), that you might have a similar story of someone in your life that introduced you to this modest pastime. It has occurred to me that caring for the wild birds, while a noble endeavor in and of itself, is also in some small way how we can care for and preserve those memories for ourselves. Life is tricky. Things sometimes happen that are out of our control. But those simple acts of caring for someone or something else always seem to stick with us.

To this day, I can not stay mad when I see a squirrel eating from one of my feeders.

I hope that you enjoy Sweet-Seed. Thank you and happy birding.

Mike Cerio Founder Sweet-Seed Micro Batch Bird Feed