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Competing with ziplines: Our inaugural pollinator garden at Forêt Boucher
This week marked the finishing touches of a purposefully built pollinator garden in Forêt Boucher, and one of several planned throughout the forest this fall in collaboration with Canopée Localeaf, Foundation de la Forêt Boucher,…
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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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École Montessori de l’Outaouais- Building play around a rain garden and a community
Since my oldest son began attending the school at the age of 3, (nearly nine years ago!), I would look at the pre-kindergarten play space and try to imagine what else it could be. As…
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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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Pollinate Aylmer: Kicking Off the 2026 Season With Giggles, Colours and Crayons
Spring has sprung and with it so many opportunities and possibilities to continue growing connected habitat pollinator islands are also sprouting. Our community volunteer group, Pollinate / Polliniser Aylmer, held its first meeting of the…
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École Montessori de l’Outaouais – natural garden fences
Over the weekend a group of parents, students and teachers gathered to build natural barriers out of cut tree branches. We built the barriers as a way to protect the pollinator gardens that the students…
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The Beginning of Canopée Localeaf
Before the stars aligned and before we met, it was as if we were working within our own realms in tandem, with the same ultimate values and goals guiding us. On my end, it began…
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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…