Fall tree planting event Photo: Evergreen
Get a jump on plating in your local area and join Evergreen and our community partners at fall events! We have many early autumn events planned for the first week of September and many more to come throughout the season across the GTA.
Join us to plant trees, shrubs and wildflowers on Saturday September 11, 10 am-12 noon in Mississauga at Shelby Park and in Scarborough at Morningside Park . Check out our online event calendar for more on event details.
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Posted by Kim from Common Grounds
The team at Malvern was one of three winning TakeBAC neighbourhoods. (Photo: Sarah Midanik)
Toronto’s annual TakeBAC program wrapped up on Tuesday after six exciting weeks of hard work. An unusually hot and humid summer made the program especially challenging this year, but the 200 youth involved were undeterred from their goal to create beautiful, vibrant garden spaces in communities around Toronto.
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Find natural sweets on our edible plant walk. (Photo: Evergreen)
Explore your local park with Evergreen and the City of Mississauga in an Edible Plant Walk tomorrow, Thursday, August 12. For more information visit our online calendar. Sign up by contacting Emily Adam, eadam@evergreen.ca.
Many native plants provide edible and medicinal benefits and can be a beautiful addition to any garden or greening project. Native plants that bear fruit also provide wonderful habitat and food for birds, pollinators and small mammals.
Help create urban green corridors, wildlife habitat and beautify your city with native plants. Visit our Native Plant Database to find native, edible plants that will thrive in your garden!
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Posted by Kim from Common Grounds
Volunteers from Starbucks Canada enthusiastically pulling invasive tansy and blackberry. (Photo: Evergreen)
Serenaded by the likes of Les Boukakes and Shayne Koyczan at the Vancouver Folk Festival, a group of volunteers recently made a big impact on the ecological health of Jericho Beach Park. All employees of Starbucks Canada, these volunteers donated their sunny Saturday to steward this important green space. With guidance from me and other Evergreen staff they constructed a shed, removed six cubic meters of invasive plant material and rescued 50 tree saplings from being smothered by morning glory.
The group also contributed to a new, important project: an Early Detection and Rapid Response study site for invasive plants. One of our regular stewards spotted a recently introduced invasive plant in the park. By creating this study site we will be able to perform a series of tests and hope to eradicate the plant before it gets a chance to establish.
A big thank you goes out to Starbucks employees for their dedication and hard work. Want to help protect green space near you? Visit our event calendar and join in!
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Sharon browsing at the Evergreen Brick Works Farmers' Market (Photo: Evergreen)
Sharon Brown started off at Evergreen Brick Works this spring volunteering at Doors Open and hasn’t stopped since. Although not a morning person at heart, Sharon now looks forward to sunrise on Saturday mornings, when she can be a Weekend Program Assistant and help with set-up, greeting visitors, waste education and even traffic.
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Evergreen Brick Works Pavilions are transformed every weekend. (Photo 1: Rob Greatrix, Photo 2: Anfernee Chansamooth)
Early on Saturday mornings at Evergreen Brick Works, as the sun comes up, the pavilions are peaceful, the ponds are still and you can hear the birds singing. It’s time for the Weekend Program team to arrive. Slowly at first and then in a rush, volunteers swing into action. Tables are set-up, signs are made, coffee is brewed and the farmers start to come.
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Protect biodiversity by collecting seeds. (Photo: Evergreen)
Save your spot in our Seed Collecting Certification workshop on August 26 and 27. For more information, visit Evergreen’s online event calendar or download our flyer.
Johnny Appleseed, American folk legend, may have had the right idea in collecting and planting apple seeds all across the landscape. Today, certified seed collectors assist in tracking seed availability for future planting use. Information about seed availability, location, type and quantity enables these trained individuals to collect and store seed and helps ensure that the appropriate stock is available to meet long term demands. Whether plants are for community restoration, outdoor classrooms or you own native plant backyard oasis, using plants sourced from certified seed grown in a local nursery is a great start to any project.
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Posted by Kim from Common Grounds
What's a green and leak-free way to 500 gardening gloves on a budget? (Photos: Laura Smit)
Everyone is welcome to take part in Evergreen’s stewardship and planting events. You bring the cheery attitude and we’ll bring everything you need, from the trees and tools to the gloves. And here in Evergreen BC, sometimes this means bringing up to 500 gloves, so all of our volunteers can get their hands in the dirt and keep their fingernails clean. It makes it easy for everyone to take part, but it also means we have a lot of laundry.
We knew there had to be a greener way than sending the soiled gloves out for dry-cleaning. It seemed to fit into Evergreen BC’s green office policy (and budget) to just wash them ourselves in the office.
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Posted by Laura from Common Grounds Vancouver
Hope to see you there!
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Celebrating Earth Day with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (Photo: Ontario MNR)
As the early spring buds transform into lush green leaves, 100,000 young trees and shrubs are helping to transform parks and open spaces across the province of Ontario.
Over the course of the last two years in an effort to make our towns and cities more livable, 345 community groups and over 10,000 volunteers from Scarborough to Iroquois Falls came together in neighbourhood parks and open spaces to make a difference thanks to a partnership between the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Evergreen. Read the rest of this entry »
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