Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library fall 2023 seed giveaways
Written on: December 16th, 2022In 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, 2022by 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, 2022by 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, 2021by 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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Building local native seed markets
Written on: March 6th, 2020by Jennifer Line Note: this is an excerpt from a longer blog post by Jennifer Line on the Canadian Wildlife Federation web site. Please also read the full version ...
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Down to the nitty gritty: creating the Churchill Alternative School butterfly garden
Written on: February 22nd, 2020by Berit Erickson Once I had created a successful pollinator garden of my own [see Berit’s Corner Pollinator Garden], I began to see prime locations for ...
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