By: Ash Lloyd, EcoHouse Green Gardening Volunteer Plant Description Often known as “blue false indigo” and “blue wild indigo”, Baptisia australis is a flowering legume native to North America. The plant is a herbaceous perennial that can grow up to 1.5 meters tall and up to a meter across. A mature plant will have a…
Green Venture’s Leading Role in 100 in 1 Day 2020 Green Venture is excited to be leading 100 in 1 Day Hamilton again in 2020! The festival is entering its 6th year in Hamilton, and its second year being led by GV. 100 in 1 Day was started in Bogota, Columbia in 2012 as a…
Secondary Students: Learn and take action to grow our urban forest! This Spring we are inviting Hamilton highschool students to join us to learn about trees and take action to improve our urban forest canopy! Green Venture and Trees for Hamilton want to engage your geography class to learn about our urban forest and…
Spring approaches, & soon the snow will be melting away for good! Here at Green Venture, no snow means it must be time to start ripping up impermeable surfaces with our Depave Paradise Program, but where should we begin? We’re currently on the hunt for new Depave sites, see the graphic at the bottom of…
This year’s Seedy Saturday was a great success! Our attendance was the highest ever recorded for a Hamilton Seedy Saturday with 832 people. That is almost 200 people more than last year! We had 30 vendors including seed vendors, environmental businesses and community groups. The workshops were very well attended with 95 guests enjoying them. …
Hello everyone! My name is Jacey Aikens and I’m currently filling the role of Environmental Outreach Assistant here at Green Venture. I’ve been here for just over a month now and I am thrilled about the amazing opportunity to learn, grow and build my communication skills with this organization. I’m working here on a…
No one likes slipping and falling on ice & we want to know that our roads and sidewalks are maintained effectively, so as to not result in an unnecessary accident. However, Green Venture believes that this desire for safety does not have to compromise our desire for a healthy environment, and more specifically, a healthy…
A new report from TAF outlines the carbon emissions and their sources for every city in the Greater Toronto Hamilton Area (GTHA). Across the region, buildings made up the largest source of emissions at 42.8%. Hamilton has the highest per capita emissions in the GTHA – 19.1 tCO2eq per capita compared to an average of 6.9…
By: Ash Lloyd, EcoHouse Green Gardening Volunteer Introduction Seed saving is an incredibly useful and important skill, even in modern times. In terms of basic survival skills, I believe it is on the same level as knowing how to start a fire or find clean water. Seed saving was common in many rural communities because…
By: Giuliana Casimirri, Green Venture Executive Director Thanks to the support of amazing volunteers, funders, community partners and people like you, Green Venture has been able to engage 5700+ youth in environmental education in 2019 and more than 7000 residents in environmental action and events. We’re proud of our new partnerships and programs. In 2019,…