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Dirty hands for a clean planet
What a kick-off to National Volunteer Week and Earth Day! Our annual Toronto Hydro Planting event saw 300 LEAF Volunteer Planting Team Leaders and Toronto Hydro participants come out to plant 300...
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Concerned citizen to community leader
Jeff Otto has been renaturalizing his community for a number of years. Since completing the Tree Tenders Volunteer Training course in April 2006, he has focused his efforts on encouraging front and...
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The sweet sound of songbirds
There’s nothing quite like waking up to the sweet sound of birds chirping to let you know that spring is here to stay. Tree Tender graduate, Christina Sharma, knows all about those birds and the...
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Bayview Buckets: Surging Forward in 2013
Our Bayview Buckets adopt-a-tree watering initiative got off to a late start last summer, but this year I’m looking forward to a full season of watering to help the trees thrive. Last year, I...
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Become a Tree Tender
Tree Tenders Volunteer Training courses kicked off last month, and our first ever course in Richmond Hill is starting this weekend! I’m coordinating these courses for the first time this year, and I’m...
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Top 5 Reasons to take Tree Tenders at TBG
Have you ever been to the Toronto Botanical Garden (TBG)? With 17 gardens over four acres, and lots of tree species, it’s a perfect setting for this fall’s Tree Tenders Volunteer Training Program....
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Photo of the month
A storm-damaged tree / Tree lovers in snowy park / Bundled against cold read more
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Tree Tending around the World
Since I took LEAF’s Tree Tenders Volunteer Training Program two years ago, my life has literally been uprooted -- and, thankfully, is now being transplanted into better soil! At the end of 2012 I...
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I like to volunteer, some would say a lot.
Moving back to Toronto from British Columbia in my mid-20s left me looking for ways to get out into the city and meet new people. Immediately, I thought “CATS!” read more
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From Lawn to Forest in a Matter of Hours
Cliché or not, many hands certainly make light work. What was a lawnmower’s dream – an open patch of unused lawn – was transformed by a burst of busy bodies into a diverse patch of native forest....
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