Forêt Capitale Forest is proud to announce that we’ve been recognized as part of The Society for Organic Urban Land Care (SOUL)’s Greener Greenspace program for our work on the Red Barn Food Forest in 2022! SOUL is a Canadian organization that cares deeply about responsible land stewardship and started this program to share and inspire ecologically-focused land care across […]
Interactive Project Map
The interactive map below shows all of our community tree planting project locations alongside a brief description of when each project was planted, the number of trees planted, and a species list. Forêt Capitale Forest is working to undertake many afforestation projects across the National Capital Region. As we grow, the map will be populated with all of our afforestation […]
December Newsletter
Local Flavours Holiday Market Over two weekends in early December, Forêt Capitale Forest attended the Local Flavours Holiday Market located in the Red Barn at the Just Food Community Farm. We were thankful for the opportunity to share about our mission, vision, and current projects while serving warm apple cider to the local community. We sold preserves made from forest-grown […]
November Newsletter
Watch our presentation at the Canadian Institute of Forestry! Our Forêt Capitale Forest director – Shelley – presented as part of an e-lecture series by the Canadian Institute of Forestry. Shelley presented on who we are as an organization, our approach to urban afforestation and our current projects. We were happy to share our many tree planting and food forest projects! […]
Community Tree Hub
We have begun to develop and to launch a tree sapling harvesting and replanting program, informed by the highly successful model in the Netherlands. The program will harvest wild saplings of regional tree species, support them to optimal replanting age, plant and monitor new trees in vetted locations. We will work with partners to adapt our model to a local […]