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Seedy Saturday Aylmer: A personal, Localeaf, behind the scenes perspective
I cannot believe what we pulled off as a community for Aylmer’s first Seedy Saturday. I’ve been asked multiple times since last Saturday to write a blog post recapping it for anyone in our community…
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BIG NEWS! We did a thing & registered an official non-profit!
BIG NEWS! We did a thing! We registered a non profit!
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Winter Sowing Adventures of (Almost Nursery) Scale
Oops. I ignored my fridge seed experiments too long and accidentally sprouted a bunch of them early. I’m seed-snailing them along with several tree seeds, hoping they won’t need more space than this until I…
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Making a Tiny Forest, the Miyawaki way
We bought our new home for the possibilities, projects and experiments it afforded us, in the quiet of the countryside just outside the city limits, but where school buses still stop to pickup our 3…
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A purpose-built (future) rain garden
I’ve been quiet. It’s a great feeling, because we’ve been so busy outside this first spring in our new place, with so many ideas and discoveries and projects, and dirty hands with mud-crusted nails, and…
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Gratitude Post
As our little Facebook group Pollinate / Pollinisez Aylmer prepares to begin planting Butterflyway gardens across Aylmer next week (watch this space), I am so moved and humbled by how we have begun coming together,…
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A groomed garden bed approach to killing my lawn to build pollinator habitat
The quick pollinator shade garden I made last week is doing great. I think I may have cooked some of the really early spring bloomers by waiting so late to plant them, but they are…
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Native shade garden in a day
So I did a thing today. It was a pretty big thing as it was the first time I’ve planted anything in our new place. As you may recall, or maybe you have no idea…
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Embrace Impulsive Gardening: How killing plants makes me a better gardener
I met a maybe-new-friend last week, and of course we chatted plants, chickens, and weird ailments. She said something to me along the lines of wishing she could bring herself to just do, and not…
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The Greenhouse Build
This thing… sigh. It’s been a lot, of everything. Hard work, obsession, learning opportunities, constraints, symbolism, acceptance, and so many other feelings and emotions I’m just now starting to digest and process. I have dreamed,…