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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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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 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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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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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…