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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OWSL demonstration beds

 Written on: August 4th, 2022

by Joanne Butler and Sandy Garland To quote a Facebook post from Melanie Ouellette, “Good things happen when caring people work together.” That applies ...

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Building local native seed markets

 Written on: March 6th, 2020

by 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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Cleaning seeds with CWF

 Written on: December 12th, 2019

by Sandy Garland Collecting seeds for the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s habitat restoration project on October 20 was fun (see Collecting seeds with CWF), but ...

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Seed collecting with CWF

 Written on: December 12th, 2019

by Sandy Garland, photos by Li-Shien Lee WPP has been interested in and supportive of a large project that the Canadian Wildlife Federation is conducting: restoring ...

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Pollinator superheroes

 Written on: May 6th, 2019

text by Sandy Garland, photos by Edgar R. Hernandez The City of Ottawa’s first Wildlife Speaker event of the season was a big success. WPP brought a display ...

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