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Plant the Seed with schools
In the fall of 2024 we welcomed 11 teachers in 22 local schools to be part of the Plant the Seed Project. From Kindergarten to grade 11, over 600 young people are getting the opportunity to learn about some of our native species, meet their seeds and put their hands in soil as they place those seeds in their winter home. More than 70 species of trees, shrubs, flowers, sedges and grasses have been planted by these students. Their future home is a Little Forest, Pocket Forest or Pocket Meadow.
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Our 2024 Pocket Forest are settling in for winter
Our Pocket Forest program, where we work with homeowners to plant native trees and shrubs as gifts to the Earth, had a wonderful first season! Between May and October 2024, we planted a total of 800 trees and shrubs (428 trees and 372 shrubs) at 30 homes across the city as well as two in the naturalized areas of Lawrence and Meadowbrook parks!
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Little Forests Kingston Annual Report 2023
Deep gratitude to all of the incredible people who've been part of growing Kingston's City in a Forest in 2023, we've had an amazing year! We’re excited to share our 2023 Annual Report. Read the report to learn more about our impact in 2023, the symbiosis growing across the city, and our dreams for 2024. -
Joan's precious planet pals, the birds, bees, and butterfly buddies!
What might an ecological centrepiece for a birthday celebration look like? How about Pocket Forests in hand-painted pots! And because everyone (even trees!) needs friends, each Pocket Forest has three species, three layers (tree, understory, shrub) and a pocket meadow. -
Time to plant some Little Forests!
Join us in planting five Little Forests (almost 2500 trees) this October as we work towards our goal of a City in a Forest! All ages, abilities and gifts are welcome. Let’s bring together our hearts, our hands and our minds and plant Little Forests as songs, poems, love letters to the land.
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Have you seen these symptoms? Oak wilt has arrived in Ontario.
Oak wilt, a deadly disease affecting all species of oak, has arrived in Ontario. Learn more about what this means for our little forests and how to identify it! -
Grenville Park partners with Madeleine-de-Roybon Elementary
The collaboration between Grenville Park and Madeleine-de-Roybon Elementary School is a wonderful example of how students, teachers, a principal, parents and residents in a community can work together to integrate sustainability not only in the domain of teaching and learning, but in community partnerships as well. You can support their ambitious goal of planting 3000 trees and shrubs by donating on GoFundMe.
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Everyone loves a Pocket Forest!
Like Ilia Underwing caterpillars to a White Oak, the people came to our booth at Skeleton Park Arts Fest, intrigued by our baby trees and our message of hope and action. In fact, so many people dropped by that it often took three or more of us to share the great work that Little Forests Kingston is doing. -
A world that has made itself good for a child is a good world
“A world that has made itself good for a child is a good world.” As we work towards transforming our city and our relationships with our non-human kin, this quote stands at the centre of it for me and for the K-12 Little Forests node. -
Mashkigwaatig
The Mitigwaakiins at 1467 HWY 15 includes a lowland forest that is wet spring and fall. In the spring giziibwewed can be heard, and lots of bineshiinyag are seen in... -
Youth Climate Action Summit
Youth want to take action to build a better planet together. We had the privilege of speaking to many of them at the Frontenac Arch Biosphere's recent Youth Climate Action Summit. In our talk, It's All About Relationships: Little Forests and Local Action, we encouraged them to think about themselves as part of Nature with a central role in bringing forests back to their cities. -
Pocket little forests for urban yards
Do you love trees and all the gifts they bring? We do! But trees, like people, prefer to live in communities. So instead of planting lonely trees in our yards, let's plant little forests! Together, let's invite magic back into our city. Let's plant little forests as poems, songs, love letters to the land.
