A How To Guide: Planting Ontario Native Seeds 

Choosing Ontario Native plants for your garden is highly beneficial for various reasons. Native plants tend to be generally well adapted to their environment, meaning it will require little maintenance once established. It is also beneficial to wildlife providing nutritionally appropriate food as well as shelter for our region’s wildlife. Native plants attract pollinators like…

Grow A Row: Tips for Planting Garlic

Blog Post: Grow a Row resources, How to Grow Garlic   By now, we hope that you’ve heard a little about Green Venture’s Grow a Row initiative — and may have even begun to harvest your sweet potato seedlings. Grow a Row encourages gardeners to grow an extra row of produce in their gardens to…

Planting Trees, Grows Community!

In a joint effort to enhance Hamilton’s urban forest to improve community health, Green Venture and Trees for Hamilton are partnering to deliver Canopy for Community. This collaborative project will engage and educate youth and local residents in Wards 4 and 5 on the importance of urban forest and allow residents to gain hands-on knowledge…

World Clean Up Day is Here!

We hope you’ll get out and enjoy some fresh air, while helping Hamilton have stay clean and beautiful! Here are some tips to stay safe! You should always wear gloves when picking litter, latex gloves or even gardening gloves offer protection from contaminants. Garbage pickers can be used to avoid even picking up garbage with…

Meet our intern, Katherine!

Hi Everyone! My name is Katherine and I’m super excited to be joining the Green Venture team as the Outreach and Restoration Intern this Fall season while I’m completing my post graduate studies at Niagara College in Environmental Management and Assessment.    Starting off my education, I received my Bachelors of Science at Queen’s University…

Grow A Row: A Summer Summary

In June of 2020, in response to the COVID-19 crisis, Green Venture launched the Backyard Garden Project. Inspired by the resilience, creativity, and innovation demonstrated by our community, the Backyard Garden Project’s goals were to foster the growing connections with nature and learning new skills being expressed by our community through making gardening as accessible…