Events Calendar

For those of us who care about the environment and the survival of creatures of all kinds, finding a way to actually do something to help, enhances our own lives and will be a legacy to be proud of.

Volunteer Stewards have been working with the City of Toronto since 1996, to protect and restore the remaining natural areas of High Park including large areas of Savannah with Black Oak trees and related flora and fauna. During the spring, summer and fall we plant, collect seeds, and remove invasive species from restoration sites. The top current invasives include garlic mustard, tall sweet white clover, oriental bittersweet, himalayan balsam and European buckthorn.

Our work gives the rare native plants and dependent wildlife a fighting chance to prosper.

Our sessions are held on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of each month except December from 10:30 am. to 1:00 pm rain or shine.

For work sessions, we meet in front of the Grenadier Restaurant and go to our work sites from there. Tools are provided but dress covering your arms, legs and feet. Bring a hat, sunscreen and water.

Winter sessions are primarily educational and are held at the Howard Park Tennis Club, 430 Parkside Drive.

For additional information on our program and to be added to the email notification list contactstewards@highparknature.org.

Upcoming work sessions

Schedule for 2016, subject to change based on weather and need

SUMMER AND FALL SESSIONS

• May 22: Garlic Mustard removal in the Tablelands
• June 12: Spring Planting
• June 26: Invasive Management/Site Maintenance
• July 10: Invasive Management/Site Maintenance
• July 24: Invasive Management/Site Maintenance
• Aug 14: Invasive Management/Site Maintenance
• Aug 28: Invasive Management/Site Maintenance
• Sept 11: Fall Planting
• Sept 25: Seed Collection
• Oct 9: No session – Thanksgiving
• Oct 23: Buckthorn Removal
• Nov 13: Buckthorn Removal
• Nov 27: Buckthorn Removal and Pot Luck Lunch

For those of us who care about the environment and the survival of creatures of all kinds, finding a way to actually do something to help, enhances our own lives and will be a legacy to be proud of.

Volunteer Stewards have been working with the City of Toronto since 1996, to protect and restore the remaining natural areas of High Park including large areas of Savannah with Black Oak trees and related flora and fauna. During the spring, summer and fall we plant, collect seeds, and remove invasive species from restoration sites. The top current invasives include garlic mustard, tall sweet white clover, oriental bittersweet, himalayan balsam and European buckthorn.

Our work gives the rare native plants and dependent wildlife a fighting chance to prosper.

Our sessions are held on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of each month except December from 10:30 am. to 1:00 pm rain or shine.

For work sessions, we meet in front of the Grenadier Restaurant and go to our work sites from there. Tools are provided but dress covering your arms, legs and feet. Bring a hat, sunscreen and water.

Winter sessions are primarily educational and are held at the Howard Park Tennis Club, 430 Parkside Drive.

For additional information on our program and to be added to the email notification list contactstewards@highparknature.org.

Upcoming work sessions

Schedule for 2016, subject to change based on weather and need

SUMMER AND FALL SESSIONS

• May 22: Garlic Mustard removal in the Tablelands
• June 12: Spring Planting
• June 26: Invasive Management/Site Maintenance
• July 10: Invasive Management/Site Maintenance
• July 24: Invasive Management/Site Maintenance
• Aug 14: Invasive Management/Site Maintenance
• Aug 28: Invasive Management/Site Maintenance
• Sept 11: Fall Planting
• Sept 25: Seed Collection
• Oct 9: No session – Thanksgiving
• Oct 23: Buckthorn Removal
• Nov 13: Buckthorn Removal
• Nov 27: Buckthorn Removal and Pot Luck Lunch

Speakers: Former and current Stewards and city staff involved with our stewardship program

Howard Park Tennis Club, 430 Parkside Drive Toronto, ON M6R 2Z3

The first light S. of Bloor from Keele. It’s the brown building in the back. Please enter via the bottom door. Free.

The photo to the right was taken at our pot-luck lunch on Nov. 27, 2016

Schedule and details:

From 10:30 to 12:30 there will be people discussing our work over the past 20 years. This will include volunteers and city staff who were there at the beginning and current ones.

We would love to have you share your own stories of what High Park and Volunteering mean to you.

There will be lots of photos from the past and current including our volunteers, our restoration sites, the plants we put in and the invasive species we remove.

We have had over 11,000 participants working over 30,000 hours in the past 20 years, and hope that many more will join us.

At 12:30 we will be having lunch and socializing.

Please see our website for more information and speaker topics: highparknature.org.

Presentation – Biological control of Invasive plant species with W.D. McIlveen

Please see our website for more information and speaker topics: highparknature.org.

Presentation – Native Plants in your garden with Lorraine Johnson

Please see our website for more information and speaker topics: highparknature.org.

Please see our website for more information: highparknature.org.

The sale will take place in front of the Greenhouse from 11:00 to 2:00 pm. In order to have plants for everyone to enjoy, large orders will be available only after 1:00 from the remaining stock.

Please park in the Grenadier Restaurant parking lot. Assistance in carrying plants will be provided.

Cash only.

This plant sale supports the work of the High Park Volunteer Stewardship Program and native plant restoration in High Park.

For more information click here.