This weekend we were blessed with beautiful weather and we enjoyed taking long walks throughout the village. On Saturday we celebrated the opening of the seed library, an initiative started by Sustainable Merrickville-Wolford and sponsored by the local Lions Club. The goal of the seed library, is to provide locals with free seeds that they can use to grow their garden. Locals donated seeds they collected before the winter to the library over the past few months, then on Saturday the library opened. I picked up some brown-eyed susans and echinacea that I’m looking forward to planting. The library in the village is very beautiful, it originally was owned by the Recreational Canadian Canoe Association, and became the library in 2008. We were also happy to see some Canadian goose on the Rideau River floating on the melting ice.

We’re looking forward to getting started on our garden, and building one of our raised beds (and maybe a greenhouse!) this weekend.