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ReForest London Newsletter

Keep up to date with ReForest London

ReForest London is planting trees all over the city, in neighbourhoods, schoolyards, parks, and natural areas.  Check out our past projects by browsing below, or by sorting the projects by type, year, or location.

Projects - Park Naturalization
Spring 2010 - Fairmont Trail

ReForest London with three classes consisting of 84 grade 5 and 6 students from Tweedsmuir Public School and Saint Bernadette Catholic School planted over 200 native trees and shrubs at Fairmont Trail to naturalize the area.

Fall 2009 - Briscoe Woods


ReForest London planted 250 trees, shrubs, and vines, plus dozens of acorns and hickory nuts at Briscoe Woods, with the help from Friends of the Coves, volunteers from Katimavik, MP's Irene Mathyssen and Ed Holder, and dozens of community volunteers

Fall 2009 - River Forks East

ReForest London, students from the University of Western Ontario volunteer in Western Serves day, and volunteers from the community planted 426 native tree and shrubs at River Forks Park East.

Fall 2009 - Fido Pottersburg Park

ReForest London and the London Knights planted 400 trees to naturalize a new area in this east London park.

Spring 2009 - Past Presidents Park

Enthusiastic volunteers from the Westminster Park Community Association, Ivey School of Business, and St. Leonards planted over 400 trees and shrubs in record time.

Spring 2009 - Berkshire Park

We returned to Berkshire Park to plante over 200 trees and shrubs.

Fall 2007 - St. Stephens Park and Wellingsboro Park

Created a new naturalization area at St. Stephens and planted 3 large shade trees at Wellingsboro.

Spring 2007 - Old South Community Organization - Thames Park

Continued the Thames Park Naturalization project in Thames Park to complement past naturalization projects. Plantings consisted of 50 potted oaks, 10 shrubs, plus 700 wildflowers.

Spring 2007 - River Forks Park

Create notes along river at River Forks Park that look out onto vistas across to the other side of the river. This complements a project begun in Spring 2006 to naturalize the park.

Spring 2007 - Osgoode Park

Large naturalization project in this park with help of youth and adult neighbourhood groups.

Fall 2007 - St. Stephen's Park

We created a new naturalization area at St. Stephens and planted 3 large shade trees at Wellingsboro.

Spring 2006 - Sprucedale Park

School children planted 64 native trees at Sprucedale Park along Stoneycreek.

Spring 2006 - Kiwanis Park

Nearly 100 volunteers planted over 140 native trees and shrubs in this south east London park. In the spring 2006, 80 more trees and shrubs were added to the project site.

Fall 2006 - Bradley Road near Westminster Ponds ESA

600+ red oak seedlings, 4 Kentucky Coffee Tree seedlings and 12 poplar and silver maple trees planted next to the South Pond, off Bradley Road.

Fall 2005 - Berkshire Park

Over 200 trees, shrubs and vines were planted at London's Berkshire Park by about 15 Deloitte employees as part of their company's commmunity impact day.

Fall 2005 - EnviroWestern

This student-led project implemented an innovative "pit and mound" technique to restore an area near UWO's TD Waterhouse Stadium. Additional trees and a butterfly garden were added in the spring of 2006.

Fall 2005 - Thames Region Ecological Association, Cartier Public School and Condo Corp 35

Volunteers cleaned up a previous naturalization area and added new trees and shrubs at Mitches Park.

Spring 2005 - Gibbon's Park

Over 100 volunteers came out to our first major event to plant trees and walk the park in a self-guided tour of the park's natural and cultural heritage.