UFORA, working with partners has planted about 20 acres at Earl Bales Park over the years. It’s been a major project of ours.  We also supervised the construction and planting of the storm-water pond and the project to twin the storm-water pipes that lead to the pond.

Below is a partial timeline of our work at Earl Bales, starting with the first plantings in 1994 with a local school.  We’ve also planted in three other sections of the park, assessed trees for the ski hill maintenance work, and wrote plans for City of Toronto staff to use on their own planting projects in the park.

Earl Bales Storm-water Pond 2010
When clearing the site, we salvaged over 10,000 native forest herbs from part of the site. Some were planted back on another part of the site, while others were used to start a nursery to propagate more plants to use on other projects. Here you can see examples of loose-flowered sedge (Carex laxiflora) and Canada waterleaf (Hydrophyllum canadense), a rare species in Toronto.
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