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Every Drop Counts: Rainwater Harvesting
Finding the best materials and tools to care for our gardens can be a high priority. While fertilizers, seeds, and weeding strategies can be debated at length, it is also critical to recognize the importance…
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Raingarden Revelation #1 – Rome wasn’t built in a Day
The Start of a Journey This marks my first-ever blog, where I hope to bring you along on my “death to the front lawn” adventure right in the heart of Aylmer. I must admit that…
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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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The Champlain Ecological Corridor: There Is Still Time!
Uncategorized On April 2nd, I joined the “Fresque vivante” (Living Mural), a demonstration organized by Mères au Front Outaouais. Our goal was to put pressure on the Brigil group, whose massive real estate project threatens…
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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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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…