MLF Founder Ken Jewett was honoured with Forests Ontario’s Susan Wiecek Forestry Education Award at the 2023 Forests Ontario Conference in Alliston, Ontario on Friday, February 17th, 2023! The award is presented to an individual or organization which has made outstanding contributions to forest education. Well deserved congratulations, Ken!
Deb, Mary and Caitlin of the MLF Team attended the 50th Annual Landscape Ontario Congress in January. It was such a pleasure to connect with some of our nursery partners in person for the first time in years! Pictured below (Clockwise from top left): Visiting with Pineneedle Farms’ Paul Richardson; Alex Verbinnen; Nick Winkelmolen; Uxbridge Nurseries; Sloan’s Travis Van Middelkoop;… READ MORE »Connecting with our Nursery Partners at LO Congress
Forests Ontario’s seasonal magazine OUR FOREST featured an article about Maple Leaves Forever and founder Ken Jewett in the Fall issue. Below is an excerpt. The full article can be read for free on the Forests Ontario website: forestsontario.ca/en/article/our-forest-magazine-volume-62-number-4 (page 12) The Long Road: Maple Leaves Forever continues Ontario’s rich history of planting trees along its thoroughfares BY PETER KUITENBROUWER… READ MORE »MLF featured in Our Forest magazine: “The Long Road”
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NVK Nurseries is one of Canada’s largest wholesale nurseries serving customers throughout Canada and several Northeastern U.S. states. We operate in the West Flamborough area of Southern Ontario on over 1000 acres and employ more than 200 employees. An additional 250 acres are under contract production in the local area. We offer more than 4,000 varieties of high-quality trees, shrubs,… READ MORE »Nursery Spotlight: NVK Nurseries
We Don’t Just Plant Trees – We Grow Forests by Rob Keen, Registered Professional Forester, CEO of Forests Ontario and Forest Recovery Canada Published Sept. 21, 2022 Having planted millions of trees across Canada and created tens of thousands of hectares of new forest cover, Forests Ontario is on a mission to combat climate change. Since 2004, Forests Ontario and… READ MORE »National Post features Forests Ontario article by Rob Keen
Fall has traditionally been a special time for many given the start of school and the cooler weather that brings out our cosy fall sweaters. It’s a time to make comforting soups and warm drinks, and sit by a fire. It is not to say that summer is pretty spectacular especially since it seems to one of our shortest seasons, but at… READ MORE »Fall Update from our Executive Director, Deb Pella Keen
A Summer message from our Executive Director, Deb Pella Keen Have you ever thought about how our beautiful roadside Native Maple trees came to be? In the 1870s, the Ontario Government, through local municipalities, provided an incentive to farmers if they planted roadsides with trees from their woodlots. The majority of trees planted were Native Maples. This gave rise to… READ MORE »Celebrating Maple Trees in Ontario this Summer!
Maple Leaves Forever support is key to another successful Ontario Envirothon Program Year! As the 2022 Ontario Envirothon season comes to an end, Forests Ontario and our education partners reflect on yet another successful year. With 19 inspiring teams from communities across Ontario, we couldn’t have been more impressed with the enthusiasm, dedication and creativity displayed by all participants. This… READ MORE »MLF supports Ontario Envirothon 2022
Maple Leaves Forever is now offering a CASH INCENTIVE for sharing locations of rows of heritage Native Maples in your area! Calling all roadtrippers, geocachers and heritage tree lovers! We need your help! Maple Leaves Forever is putting together a heritage tour of 100+ year old maple plantings along roadsides, laneways and property boundaries in Ontario. We recently published an… READ MORE »Heritage Maple Scavenger Hunt
