In August 2023 Judith, who has been a long-time volunteer approached Toronto Wildlife Centre (TWC) with an idea for partnering with Project Swallowtail’s Underhill Seedsitter’s group to create a native plant garden. She knew that a native plant garden would be a natural extension of the great work that TWC does in taking care of […]
Location: 3539 Lobsinger Line St. Clements On N0B 2M0 In project 5, I showcased the great work that Jenniffer had done with her work on the St. Clements post office gardens. We were eager to see her work and also help her take it to the next level, so Sanam, Rekha and I loaded up […]
Location: 2901 Yonge St, Toronto, ON M4N 3N8 Pat C. volunteers at a neighbourhood gardening project organized by Pat M. which helps to maintain this beautiful public park. Pat C. chose to focus on creating an educational opportunity by showing visitors how native plants can be added to an established garden bed with the addition […]
Location: Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview Ave, Toronto, ON, M4W 3X8 When thinking about how to best use the plants our Underhill seedsitting group had grown together, Olivia knew that she wanted to reach people who did not have access to land for gardening. Inspired by Ryan Godfrey’s balcony containers, as well as Catherine and Dorte’s […]
Native plants for the St. Celements Post Office
Location: 150 Kilgour Road, Toronto, ON Canada M4G 1R8 Sayeh first met Shannon at a Seedy Saturday Event at Parkdale Public Library back in March 2023. As Sayeh told her about the Underhill Seedsitting group, Shannon saw the opportunity to collaborate with the group to enrich the lives of the children and caregivers who came […]
Location: Scarborough Junction Community Farm, 3595 St. Clair Ave E, M1K 1L8 I am delighted to share the heart-warming story of how one of our members collaborated with multiple groups to realize her project. Catherine is passionate about creating equitable opportunity and when she was thinking of her project, she decided to combine resources from […]
Location: 125 Chatsworth Dr, Toronto, ON M4R 1S1 In Fall 2022, Sayeh was contacted by the Principal at Lawrence Park CI about working with the eco club to create a native plant garden. The amazing team at LPCI especially Amalia, the teacher who supported the eco club have made this project one of the most […]
Location: 25 Bain Ave, Toronto, ON M4K 1E5 In the Fall of 2022, Liz began collecting and cleaning over 2000 Oxeye sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides) seeds from plants she had added to her garden the year before. When Luna reached out to Sayeh to ask about purchasing sunflower seeds for Withrow Ave JPS ‘s Earth day […]
Our two July gatherings were a great opportunity to (finally!!!) meet in person, talk about important questions of creating projects to build community and also share stories of challenges we’ve faced, solutions we’ve found and what it all meant. I know that it’s often not deemed polite to talk about politics, but I think that […]