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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. -
Relationships, Part One
Students at KSS through the Sweetgrass Circle, begin to build a relationship with the land, the trees and each other. -
Relationships, Part Two
Students in Grade 9 Art classes at Kingston Secondary School use Indigenous art to strengthen their own connections to Trees and Forests. To all their relations.
