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
BIG NEWS! We did a thing! We registered a non profit!
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
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
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
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