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Bees, Butterflies, Barons and Beer… if you know you know
Ever since we started the Butterflyway Aymer project I look at spots around our town with an eye filter of transformation possibilities. Every little strip of lawn I pass in a public space I imagine…
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The Highs, the Lows, and the Orange Tent: Our Market Debut
Well that was a big day. We survived the first day at the local farmers market yesterday, and I was floored by the interest, the conversations, the encouragement and the support of our local community.…
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Buy Local, Support Wild Life: Native, Pollinator-Friendly Plants in the Heart of Aylmer—Coming June 7th!
Spring has sprung finally and with it a bunch of tiny little sprouts that were hiding under the snow. A lot of amazingness and learning happened for us this winter. The obvious highlights were helping…
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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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The very personal downward spiral of crumpled butterfly wings
I went to a therapy session right after our most recent Butterflyway planting, still wearing my giant monarch wings and Butterflyway Ranger t-shirt, excited to gush to my therapist about the morning I had spent…
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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,…