Gardening & neighbourhood resources:
- Tending the Earth – A Gardener’s Manifesto, by Toronto writer & community gardener Lorraine Johnson
- The New Ontario Naturalized Garden - Lorraine Johnson
- City of Toronto Community Gardens Program – Parks & Rec.
- Evergreen
- Tree & shrub species native to Toronto area (Forest Gene Conservation Association)
- Ask a Toronto Master Gardener
- City of Toronto Environment Days - Schedule (Rainbarrels, Composters)
- LEAF Backyard Tree Program - subsidized native trees & shrubs & resources
- Pesticide By-Law & Natural Alternatives - City of Toronto
- Toronto Private Tree Protection By-Law
- City of Toronto's Urban Forestry Services
- Identifying & Controlling Invasive Plants in Toronto - City's Urban Forestry Fact Sheet
- Lake Ontario Park, Port Lands and Don River Mouth: Plans & Public Consultations - Waterfront Toronto
- Leslieville photos: wikimedia commons
- Leslieville: wikipedia
- Friends of the Spit
- Councillor Paula Fletcher
- Weather: Toronto: Environment Canada
- Weather: Toronto Outer Harbour
- Community, social, health & government services info & access
- Injured Wildlife: Toronto Wildlife Centre (Downsview)
- For all city contacts (lost or injured wildlife or pets, streelight outages, garbage and maintenance issues etc.), call 311
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My own sense is that the immediate work that lies ahead has to do with fixing landscape, repairing its ruptures, reconnecting its parts. Restoring landscape is not about 'preserving' lands -- "saving what's left," as it's often put. Restoration recognizes that once lands have been "disturbed" -- worked, lived on, meddled with, developed -- they require human intervention and care. We must build landscapes that heal, connect and empower, that make intelligible our relations with each other and with the natural world: places that welcome and enclose, whose breaks and edges are never without meaning. -Alex Wilson, The Culture of Nature
“When we’re on our knees, rooting around in the soil … what we’re learning are the fine, specific details of our home place, the things that make it unique. …This alertness is, I think, the key to finding a way to live on this earth with spirited wonder and mindful humility –necessary approaches if we’re to begin the crucial work that is ahead: the work of healing the planet. We need people to connect with their home places and learn about them and understand them and see and feel and know that what they’re doing to them, and what’s happening to the earth. We need stewards and nurturers and people who care. We need gardeners." -Toronto gardener and writer Lorraine
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