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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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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…