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Our Adopt-a-Park-Tree journey began almost four months ago when we three ladies, all participants in LEAF’s Young Urban Forest Leaders Program met and joined forces to pursue one simple goal: to find loving adoptee parents for the beautiful trees at Chester Le Park. That journey came to its glorious head on Sunday August 21st.

In my blog post last week, I talked to Lillian, a Tree Tenders graduate, to find out what she’s been up to since taking the course with us last year. This week, I catch up with Sammy, a fourth year student in Ryerson University’s Environment and Urban Sustainability program, to see how she’s been using her tree knowledge lately!

Local residents, business owners, City of Toronto Staff and LEAF staff and volunteers met last Thursday, July 21st at Susan Tibaldi Parkette for a tree tour that celebrated the new Adopt-A-Street-Tree project in the Bloordale community. The project encourages community members to become active in caring for the street trees that were planted on Bloor Street by the City of Toronto in 2014. By the end of the tour, the program gained several new street tree adopters- fascinated by what they learned and ready to care for some trees!

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: we wouldn’t be where we are today, or be able to do all that we do, without our amazing volunteers and supporters! As LEAF celebrated its 20th birthday, we thought it would be a perfect opportunity to thank the many people who make LEAF great by hosting a summer party in our Learning Garden.