Category: Fruit and Vegetables

Seedy Saturday Aylmer: Help Wanted / Samedi des semences Aylmer : On a besoin de vous !

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With only 3 weeks to go, seed packing is still going strong! We have had an incredible outpouring of support and donations from so many seed companies; we are struggling to keep our donors page updated. A huge thank you to our generous Quebec-based donors, including: ✳️Les Semis de la Seigneurie (Aylmer)✳️Les Jardins de l’Écoumène … Continue reading Seedy Saturday Aylmer: Help Wanted / Samedi des semences Aylmer : On a besoin de vous !

Seedy Saturday Aylmer / Samedi des semences à Aylmer

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How it's going...  /  Comment ça se passe... Wow you guys. I just updated the seed donor list for Seedy Saturday, and I am blown away. So many amazing organizations working together, willing to donate to community initiatives like ours, for food security, biodiversity, soil health and community building. Wow le monde. Je viens juste … Continue reading Seedy Saturday Aylmer / Samedi des semences à Aylmer

Pollinate Aylmer and our Winter Happenings

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Over the few months, a beautiful friendship has been cemented between Localeaf (our nursery), Pollinate Aylmer (our incredible group of local volunteers), and Partenaires du Secteur Aylmer (our mentors, enablers, and now partners in helping us bring back the butterflies, fireflies, pollinators and other wildlife in our community). We've grown so much that we found … Continue reading Pollinate Aylmer and our Winter Happenings

Embrace Impulsive Gardening: How killing plants makes me a better gardener

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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 overthink her garden planning. If she reads this post I hope this will inspire her to trust she can. Or … Continue reading Embrace Impulsive Gardening: How killing plants makes me a better gardener

Tomatoes, tomAHtoes and 34 varieties of everything in between

34 varieties of heirloom tomato seedlings
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We LOVE tomatoes around here. My personal favorites are large beefsteak and slicing varieties, but the kids prefer cherry, grape and any other small type of small tomatoes so we have always grown a few different kinds. Last year I experimented with growing more tomato plants than we needed, and placing some in random parts … Continue reading Tomatoes, tomAHtoes and 34 varieties of everything in between

The making of a nursery. Year 1… February Updates

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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 for spring. I don't want to sugar coat anything or pretend we have things figured out because we are soooo far from that, but bit by bit it feels like we are starting to figure out some things. The kids have been amazing through it all.

Winter Sowing for Beginners: Easy Steps to Get Started

winter sowing with a guard dog
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I've been winter sowing seeds successfully for sever years, and racking up mistakes, learnings and tips from my experiences, as well as those of many others who started winter sowing before me, so by now I'm pretty comfortable with the practice. I found it overwhelming when I started, so I began small, with just a … Continue reading Winter Sowing for Beginners: Easy Steps to Get Started

Our seeds, free seeds, shared seeds, and the small seed companies and nurseries we have loved supporting this year

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We grow plants from seeds. That is at the core of what we love to do. Year after year, our collection of seeds grows. This is in part due to our plants growing, us collecting seeds from our maturing baby plants, saving seeds from our existing harvests, foraging the vast unspoiled wild land near our … Continue reading Our seeds, free seeds, shared seeds, and the small seed companies and nurseries we have loved supporting this year