LET'S PLANT 150 TREES FOR CANADA'S 150TH
Check out all the ways you can
participate!
1. GET A FREE TREE
(OR TWO) AT OUR
TREE FOR ME COMMUNITY EVENT
The Danforth Gardens Neighbourhood Association with The Tree
For Me Foundation wants to give you a free tree (or two) to plant on private
property (your private property or on a rental property with permission of the
landlord).
You can order up to two of any of the following large trees (Sugar
Maple, Red Maple, Red Oak, White Pine) or small trees (Smooth Serviceberry,
White Cedar).
To order your free tree(s) just go to www.treeforme.ca and look for the Danforth
Gardens Neighbourhood Association event to sign up for your tree(s).
And the best part is you can pick up your tree in the
neighbourhood on Saturday October 14, 2017 from 12:00 – 2:00pm at Danforth
Gardens Public School. We’ll even show
you how to plant and care for your tree. In addition to picking up your tree we
will have family friendly activities including:
12:00 - 2:00pm
Tree Pick Up and Planting Workshop
Community Picnic
Nature Mural Painting
Earth Play Activities
1:30 - 2:00pm
The Barry O Kid’s Show Entertainer
2:00 - 2:30pm
Multi-sport Kids
Program
For more information go to www.danforthgardens.ca or email info@danforthgardens.ca .
2. WARDEN WOODS
NATIVE TREE PLANTING
Danforth Gardens Neighbourhood Association has been invited
to provide up to 50 volunteers for a native tree planting organized by the City
of Toronto Urban Forestry Department and Green Toronto on Saturday October 14,
2017 from 10:00am – 12:00pm. Meet at
Warden Woods Park at the corner of St. Clair Ave. and Warden Ave.
The plan is to plant 100 – 200 trees in the Warden Woods
Park along with other volunteer groups. The trees we plant will be counted towards our
150 Trees for Canada’s 150th Project.
We can only provide 50 volunteers so please sign up for the
event on our Facebook event at https://www.facebook.com/events/1974895356101565/?acontext=%7B%22source%22%3A4%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D&source=4&action_history=null
or email info@danforthgardens.ca
with the number of people that will be joining you. Sign up early as we hope to max out on our
volunteer quota. Individuals, families
and children are all welcome!
3. OTHER INITIATIVES
Let’s celebrate Canada’s 150th Birthday by
planting 150 trees in our neighbourhood this year between April and October
2017. We plan to achieve our goal by
residents planting trees on their properties, the local schools planting trees
on their properties, the City planting trees in our local parks and by doing a
native tree planting in the local ravine.
Here’s how you can get involved:
* Get a free front yard or boulevard tree from the City.
More info at www.toronto.ca/trees .
* Plant a backyard tree from LEAF Toronto. More details
at www.yourleaf.org/toronto .
* Order free tree from our Tree For Me Event at www.treeforme.ca .
* Attend a community tree planting in Warden Woods on Sat.
October 14 from 10:00am – 12:00pm.
* Go to a local nursery and buy a native or non-invasive
tree to plant on your property.
* Encourage your local councillor, school and neighbours
to plant trees.
* Please email info@danforthgardens.ca
to get involved and to let us know about any trees you planted this year so we
can add them to our tally and achieve our goal of 150 new trees planted in our
neighbourhood.
And why plant trees? Well, trees increase property
values, reduce heating and cooling costs, clean the air, produce oxygen, lower
our stress levels and blood pressure, provide habitat for birds and wildlife
and make our neighbourhood more beautiful.
“A society grows great when people plant trees whose
shade they know they shall never sit in.”
Greek Proverb
“Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing
bird will come.”
Chinese Proverb
“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a
mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Trees are poems
that the earth writes upon the sky.”
Kahlil Gibran
“That each day I may walk unceasingly on the banks of my
water, that my soul may repose on the branches of the trees which I planted,
that I may refresh myself under the shadow of my sycamore.”
Egyption tomb inscription, circa 1400 BC
“If I knew I should die tomorrow, I would plant a tree
today.”
Stephen Girard
“I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a
tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed, against the earth’s sweet flowing
breast. A tree that looks at God all day, and lifts her leafy arms to pray.
A tree that man in Summer wear, a nest of robins her
hair. Upon
whose bosom snow has lain, who intimately lives with rain. Poems are
made by fools like me, but only god can make a tree.”
Joyce Kilmer 1914
