
Tag: education programs
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YGH’s Noticing Nature Family Program is running again this summer
A great opportunity for summer nature enrichment for young children and an accompanying adult, we’re running our “Noticing Nature” program again this summer.
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Noticing Nature program
Noticing Nature is a summer program offered to families with children ages 4 to 11. This child-led program is offered for 8 mornings 10am to 12pm.
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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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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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Explore Yorklands
Download a map of the Yorklands Green Hub’s proposed 70-acre site for a sustainable environments centre, with the Blue Dot Trail route which you can follow. On the map’s back are some site features, and references to our Green Doors newsletters which can provide you with some interesting information about them. All of our Green Doors newsletters can…
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Polli-Patches! A YGH Pilot Project.
Starting this spring, Yorklands Green Hub introduces a pilot project: Polli-Patches! This program aims to support pollinators in East Guelph by creating small habitats of native perennial plants around existing trees on a property. Each participating family will receive the resources, materials and professional horticultural support to create a thriving urban pollinator habitat. The Polli-Patch…