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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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The Green Door: Number 13, April 2019
In the 1890s and 1900s, the City Beautiful Movement was a North American movement of urban planning that espoused beauty and grand design for urban spaces and institutions.
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Prison Arts at the Ontario Reformatory in the last decades of 1900
Arend Nieuwland, an accomplished professional artist was the art director of the prison arts program for the final 26 years at the Guelph Correctional Centre. He is currently a soapstone carver who shows his works in galleries across the country. He met with us recently and shared some details of this creative program at the…
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Territorial Acknowledgment
We acknowledge this land as part of the traditional territory of the First Nations. The Attawandaron (called Neutrals by the Jesuits) lived on this land with its two rivers and forests. The Mississaugas of the New Credit (comprised of Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe) are the stewards of the land. Our immediate neighbours are the Six Nations…
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Calling all Existing and Future Members!
Yorklands Green Hub has been around for about 5 years as an incorporated non-profit. I am one of its most recent members and new part-time Executive Director. After convincing my wife and children to join me on the monthly guided Sunday Blue Dot trail walk in June, I also persuaded them to join as Members. Collectively, we…
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The Green Door: Number 10, April 2018
For YGH, promoting urban agriculture involves finding the most sustainable ways to grow food. One significant challenge is the current footprint of growing produce indoors in year-round northern greenhouses. We would like to look at comparative greenhouse efficiencies and contribute to lessened fossil fuel use.
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Ministry of Infrastructure Ontario plans for the Guelph Correctional Centre
At a public townhall at Guelph City Hall, Infrastructure Ontario explained which sections of the large property, and the process to take it to market. Page 10 of the slide presentation best explains the offerings and conditions of sale. You can download the full information report by clicking on ‘Download’ at the bottom of the…