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! […]
October Newsletter
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! Community Tree Hub Planting Event – Saturday, October 15th Ahead of our proposed 2023 launch of the FCF community tree hub, we are pleased to start this project a bit earlier in partnership with CAFES and through a generous donation of tree seedlings from Ecology Ottawa. We are planting small seedlings into our seedling area (a.k.a. the FCF […]
September Newsletter
Want to support local afforestation efforts and research? Please Donate! Looking to help out but don’t have the time? Our Tiny Forest initiative already has 3 tennis-court sized plots and we’re looking to raise enough funds to plant our 4th plot! Your funds will go towards sourcing trees to complete the Tiny Forest. You will be able to see your […]
August Newsletter
Thank you for attending our AGM! Thank you to everyone who attended our AGM last week in-person or virtually! It was a great evening with beautiful weather, with informative tours of our latest projects and delicious food sourced from the Just Food Farm! We took this opportunity to reflect on this past year and we’re so proud of the growth […]