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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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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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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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What happened to the nursery?
Our little Aylmer village grew quite interested in our micro-nursery project, as Aylmer does in any new business endeavour that isn’t shawarma or pizza (except for Rose Pizza, because their pizza is in a world…
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How Local is Localeaf?
Every plant we sell is grown locally, from seed, by us, on our own property, here in Aylmer. Most of our seeds are ethically harvested from our own extensive gardens, in Aylmer, or from our…
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The making of a nursery. Year 1… February Updates
Getting away from my personal life and back to the purpose of this blog, here’s an update on our activities and where we are at coming to the end of this short month, and preparing…