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Sign the Petition for Urban Park Guelph
Yorklands Green Hub is part of a larger group of organizations and community members advocating for the establishment of a National Urban Park at the Reformatory Conservation District.
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Pollinator Gardens
Launched as a pilot project in 2020, the Polli-Patches program exists to help community members learn a bit more about native plants and their role in pollination. Thanks to the generous community grant by Pollination Guelph, Yorklands Green Hub recieved over 100 applications to join the program. Working with 15 of the households, on the…
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Colour Yorklands – Colouring Book Fundraiser
The Yorklands Green Hub has collaborated with local artist, Irene Hanuta, to create a colouring book of beautiful scenes from the Ontario Reformatory Lands. You too can make your own works of art using the black and white drawings Irene compiled for Colour Yorklands. Colour Yorklands is part of our annual Artspiration Fundraiser where artists…
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Ten Tall Trees Program
Ten Tall Trees is our core program that connects young people in the schools to the trees around them. Every child and person should be able to identify ten different species of trees including 3-4 different conifers. What attributes distinguish these trees. Oak, maple, willow, birch, poplar, linden, spruce, pine and cedar would be a…
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Foodster Learning Centre
The Foodster Learning Center was a 2021 pilot program of interactive demonstration and connection to local food production… food for all species.
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Artists Series – Sharyn Seibert
On June 17th, we interviewed local artist and avid Yorklands volunteer, Sharyn Seibert. You can watch the recording below.
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Reformatory lands deserve protecting, not just a few buildings
Submitted by Susan Ratcliffe Read article here Guelph celebrated its 194th birthday on April 23, a longevity John Galt could not have imagined when he cut down the maple tree on the banks of the Speed River. He commemorated the tree cutting on that rainy night with these eloquent words: “The silence of the woods,…