Riverview Park Pollinator Garden

Written on: December 17th, 2023

by Lynne Patenaude The Friends of Riverview Park Green Spaces and a group of volunteers planted over 370 seedlings of 25+ species of sun-loving, mostly native, ...

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OWSL: lending the seeds to grow Ottawa’s pollinator gardens

Written on: November 28th, 2023

By Elaine DeCoursey (modified slightly from an article written for the Old Ottawa South Community Association Review, January 2024) At the November meeting of the ...

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Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library fall 2023 seed giveaways

Written on: December 16th, 2022

In 2020, Melanie Ouelette began the Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library (OWSL) to encourage others to grow native plants. Since then, the OWSL has distributed thousands ...

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Brighton Beach Park mini-meadows

Written on: August 4th, 2022

by Sandy Garland Inspired by the micro-forest idea and an aim to increase biodiversity in our parks, the Enviro Crew of Old Ottawa South designed and planted two ...

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Pollinator gardens are more important than we may realize!

Written on: August 4th, 2022

by Renate Sander-Regier Pollinator gardens play important roles in the lives of pollinators, as well as songbirds, and many more species of insects. A recent CBC ...

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Forest Garden Friends

Written on: March 14th, 2021

by Sarah M.L. Walker Our garden is a food forest, with domesticated edibles intermingled with (sometimes edible to humans) native species. Our property is large (one ...

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