July 10, 2015
Melissa Williams
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On Earth Day this year, LEAF announced some very exciting news: that we were expanding our Backyard Tree Planting Program to Ajax. We’ve been so thrilled to offer this subsidized program to Ajax residents, but we’re not stopping there! With support from the Town of Ajax, Durham Region, Toronto and Region Conservation and Ontario Power Generation, we’ll also be offering some fantastic educational programs this fall.
July 07, 2015
Erin MacDonald
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Over the past month, LEAF has been working with eight amazing young women through our Young Urban Forest Leaders Program. The program is designed to support young women who want to become urban forest leaders in their communities.
July 03, 2015
Melissa Williams
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This spring, with support from the Government of Ontario and York Region, LEAF launched its new Youth EAB Ambassador Program. LEAF provided 11 elementary schools from the York Catholic District School Board (YCDSB) with in-class workshops that taught students the importance of the urban forest and the threat posed by the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB).
June 26, 2015
Janet McKay
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On Wednesday June 24, LEAF and partners hosted The Great Toronto Tree Hunt awards ceremony. It was the exciting culmination of the Hunt, which began on earth day (April 22nd) 2015.
June 26, 2015
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In May, LEAF’s volunteer garden stewards were invited to attend a workshop by the amazing arborist Mark Sherman that dealt with general garden care. We learned a ton of interesting facts about our wonderful trees, the ways in which gardens grow and what weeds really are!
June 25, 2015
Janet McKay
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The goal of The Great Toronto Tree Hunt was to engage Torontonians in helping us uncover the beauty and wonder of our urban forest by nominating individual trees that hold special meaning to them. We launched the Hunt on Earth Day, April 22nd, and by the close of our nomination period, June 1st, we had received 390 entries.
June 25, 2015
Erin MacDonald
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On a very busy street corner, people collected on a patch of grass around a small podium fronted by two cute watering cans. We were there to celebrate the trees that line our streets and to launch an Adopt-a-Street-Tree pilot project that will engage volunteers and businesses in caring for trees planted along the Danforth between Woodbine and Victoria Park – 142 trees to be exact!
June 19, 2015
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Last Saturday, sunny blue skies, great performers and vendors and mouth-watering food made the Leslieville Tree Festival a clear crowd pleaser.
June 18, 2015
Jaclyn Corneil
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We had 46 engaging nominations submitted in the Heritage Potential category of The Great Toronto Tree Hunt. Thank you to everyone who submitted entries and voted in the contest!
June 17, 2015
Jaclyn Corneil
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We had 25 enormous trees submitted in the Size category of The Great Toronto Tree Hunt. Thank you to everyone who submitted entries and voted in the contest!