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The 2019 Long Branch Garden Tour is Coming Up.

Attention all gardening enthusiasts! Saturday June 22 is the date for the 2019 Long Branch Garden Tour. Mark your calendars.

This year marks the 135th birthday of this beautiful community, and the 2019 garden tour promises to be better than ever.

If you would like to have YOUR garden included as part of the tour, it’s not too late to register. We have to close registration soon to allow us time to design and print the brochure and map showing the participating gardens, so register yours by contacting us.

Then on June 22nd, come visit Long Branch between 10 am and 4 pm and enjoy over 3 dozen beautiful gardens.  Best of all – it’s free!

To learn more, visit our website longbranchgardentour.ca

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Tree For Me

On-line Registration for your Free Trees is Now Open!

Tree for Me brought to you by Long Branch Neighbourhood Association


The LBNA is pleased to bring you Tree for Me this spring.   On-line registration is now open by clicking on this link www.lbna/tree

Native Tree species, suitable for all yards, will be distributed by the LBNA on May 25th from 10 – 1:45pm in Samuel Smith Park during this year’s Spring Bird Festival.
 
If you have the space, we would encourage you to opt for the trees that will will grow into beautiful Large Canopy Tree species.  Choose from the following:  

 Large Canopy Trees     Red Maple
   Bur Oak 
 Medium Size Trees   White Birch 
   Northern Hackberry
 Small Trees / Shrubs   Serviceberry
   White Cedar
   Red Osier Dogwood (NEW)
   Black Chokeberry (NEW)

We all have a role to play in making Toronto greener.   
Let’s get planting Long Branch!


Pre-registration is required.     

Each private property in Toronto with suitable plantable space is eligible for two trees – even if you received some already last year from the Tree for Me program.  

If you prefer to register for your trees in person, we will be hosting a Tree for Me registration at the Long Branch Library on Saturday, May 4th from 10am – 1:00pm.   Stay tuned for more information soon.  

The LBNA is able to bring you the Tree for Me program thanks to a Grant from the Toronto Parks and Trees Foundation.  Tree For Me grants support the City of Toronto’s 40 percent tree canopy cover target by encouraging tree planting and tree care on private property. 

We all have a role to play in making Toronto greener.   
Let’s get planting Long Branch!
Click here to register now for a Free Tree
Every Tree Counts
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Marie Curtis Park Cleanup

Help us keep Marie Curtis Park clean and beautiful.

Come out Sunday, April 7, 2019, from 10 am to noon to help clean up trash from the beaches, the playgrounds and everywhere else in the park.

Look for our friendly volunteers in the parking lot, who can set you up with gloves and plastic bags to hold whatever you can collect.

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Please say “Yes” to Tree Inventory on your property

Get your trees inventoried early!  It will likely take us a couple of summers to inventory all the trees in Long Branch but click on the link below and give us your permission and address to get your property inventoried this summer.   Natalie and Henri (our summer students conducting the Tree Inventory Project) will be providing individual homeowners with reports on your own trees and/or plantable space and we will be working with the University of Toronto Faculty of Forestry to share the preliminary data and key findings with you as the data accumulates.

 

Click here to say YES to Tree Inventory

 

Future Impacts of Having a Neighbourwoods© Inventory for Long Branch
Both the Long Branch Neighbourhood Character Guidelines and Toronto Official Plan outline what sustainability features the city desires in both public and private space. Their vision, in conjunction with our analysis, has the power to really help Long Branch understand our urban forestry successes and challenges in a way that can concretely inform policy, funding and stewardship.

What we need you to do

1) Watch for Henri and Natalie this summer on your street and say “Hi” and invite them into your backyard to conduct the Tree Inventory.
2) Say “Yes, to Tree Inventory on my property” to participate in the inventory project. You can do this by clicking on this link or emailing us at longbranchnato@gmail.com and provide your address
3) Encourage your neighbours on your street to participate.
4) Come out to “Toast the Trees” to help us raise money for the program (see our earlier email with more details on what the funds will be used for)

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Look what has been discovered in Long Branch!

Henri and Natalie added this magnificent Red Oak to our Tree Inventory on Friday.   Who knew we had such a gargantuan tree in our neighbourhood?  Stay tuned for more information about this amazing Long Branch “Titan Red Oak”!

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Say Hello to our 2 Summer Students

Welcome Henri and Natalie!

The Long Branch Neighborhood Association (LBNA) is pleased to introduce you to our 2 Summer Students who have been hired to start our Tree Inventory Project.

Meet Henri (on the left) and Natalie (on the right) on their first day on the job standing in front of an Ohio Buckeye tree  with Dr Danijela Puric-Mladenovic of the University of Toronto Faculty of Foresty (in the middle).

Natalie and Henri are university Biology students – also residents of Long Branch – and are in the process of being trained on Neighbourwoods©:  a tree inventory and monitoring system that collects data that can be used to inform decision making and will help to develop the Long Branch Urban Forest Management Plan.  Neighbourwoods© was developed by Dr Puric-Mladenovic and Dr W.A. Kenney from the University of Toronto and has been used in communities all over Ontario and beyond.   We are so excited to add Long Branch to the list!

Future Impacts of Having a Neighbourwoods© Inventory for Long Branch

Both the Long Branch Neighbourhood Character Guidelines and Toronto Official Plan outline what sustainability features the city desires in both public and private space. Their vision, in conjunction with our analysis, has the power to really help Long Branch understand our urban forestry successes and challenges in a way that can concretely inform policy, funding and stewardship.

What we need you to do

1) Watch for Henri and Natalie this summer on your street and say “Hi” and invite them into your backyard to conduct the Tree Inventory.
2) Send an email to us at longbranchnato@gmail with your address and just say in the subject of the email “Yes, to Tree Inventory on my property” to participate in the inventory project.
3) Encourage your neighbours on your street to participate.
4) Come out to “Toast the Trees” to help us raise money for the program (see our earlier email with more details on what the funds will be used for)

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