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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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Seedy Saturday Aylmer: Help Wanted!
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…
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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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Seedy Saturday Aylmer
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,…
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Pollinate Aylmer and our Winter Happenings
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…
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Butterflyway Aylmer (2025 edition)
I’ve been meaning to write this, but fall is a very busy time for an ‘almost nursery’, as I’m learning. The incredible people of Pollinate / Polliniser Aylmer, who made this happen, already know about…
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Aylmer Butterflyway Stop #11 – Centre Allimentaire Aylmer
Yesterday Pollinate Aylmer completed stop #11 on the Aylmer Butterflyway, at the Aylmer Food Bank (Centre Allimentaire Aylmer). You can read the details of how we built it, and the plants we planted, but more…
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Making a Tiny Forest, the Miyawaki way
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…
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Creating a Butterflyway stop and native pollinator habitat gardens at an elementary school
Preparation We spent a few weeks discussing, planning and preparing for planting a pollinator garden and native habitat at Lord Aylmer Elementary. The kids in the outdoor education program worked hard with their teachers to…