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Aylmer 500 Soap Box Car Race Weekend and our largest Butterflyway Aylmer planting yet (#16)
What a weekend!! Our most labor intensive, draining and engaging planting event to date saw literally hundreds of families, festival goers and curious passers-by release their inner childhood artists and help decorate our repurposed broken…
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The Many Shades of Milkweed | Multae Facies Asclepiadis
I keep starting blog posts and not finishing them lately, mostly because I get busy, with life, in the garden, or just get distracted, in part by plants, but increasingly more by the critters that…
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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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Orange and hot pink changes around here, thanks to a very special unicorn
Oh hi! New Website, split in two, welcome (if you’re a subscriber reading this in your inbox we have 2 new websites, you should check them out). Quick cheatsheet, because anything I’ve tried to write…
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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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100 Days of Happiness V2.0
I dislike social media. I would leave it all behind if it weren’t for my Facebook groups, where much of my non-experimental learning and sense of community comes from. Instagram is a different beast all…