I cannot believe what we pulled off as a community for Aylmer's first Seedy Saturday. Me and my girls giving out native seed mix packs I've been asked multiple times since last Saturday to write a blog post recapping it for anyone in our community who couldn't be there, but I don't know how to … Continue reading Seedy Saturday Aylmer: A personal, Localeaf, behind the scenes perspective
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 !
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 can move them to the greenhouse in March. Early risers observed: Sundial Lupine (Lupinus perennis - pictured above), Wild Senna … Continue reading Winter Sowing Adventures of (Almost Nursery) Scale
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
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 kids en route to 3 different schools. Here, our neighbour walks her horse up and down our street to graze … Continue reading Making a Tiny Forest, the Miyawaki way
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 with some of my Pollinate Aylmer peeps and two classes of kindergarten kids building little pollinator habitats at a local … Continue reading The very personal downward spiral of crumpled butterfly wings
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 if you know me you know that means I am happy. We finally got around to starting one project both … Continue reading A purpose-built (future) rain garden
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, and what this little group of perfect strangers 6 weeks ago have begun putting in motion. Swamp Milkweed seedlings at … Continue reading Gratitude Post
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 rebounding and will come back next year. Today I checked on them and found a couple of patches of Virginia … Continue reading A groomed garden bed approach to killing my lawn to build pollinator habitat
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 and that's okay too, we moved late last fall, and I brought divisions of a lot of my plants with … Continue reading Native shade garden in a day
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