Canada is a nation of forests – approximately a third of Canada is covered by forest! This year is the 100th anniversary of National Forest Week (NFW) which is celebrated this week from September 20-26, 2020 and National Tree Day which is on Wednesday, September 23, 2020. I think it’s a wonderful coincidence that our founder, Ken Jewett is celebrating… READ MORE »Fall Update from our Executive Director, Deb Pella Keen
We will miss Carl Mansfield, who is retiring after serving as Maple Leaves Forever’s arboreal consultant for the past 5 and half years. Carl has provided the organization with his immeasurable expertise in his treecare and planting notes, and has kept our relationships with partner nurseries strong and healthy. Carl’s careful attention to detail and gentle manner has been a great asset to… READ MORE »MLF’s resident “Tree Guy” Carl Mansfield retires
From hohtribute.ca/sponsors-2/maple-leaves-forever-partnership “Maple Leaves Forever is one of the founding sponsors of the Highway of Heroes Tree Campaign. With one of the first ever gifts at $25,000, Maple Leaves Forever helped to launch our campaign back in 2015/2016. A second gift of $10,000 in April of 2017 was highlighted at a community planting event that took place at Downsview Park,… READ MORE »Maple Leaves Forever proud to be founding sponsor of Highway of Heroes tree campaign
HOW CAN YOU HELP? TELL A FRIEND!If you recently received our Thank You Rebate, or you find our tree care information helpful – please share this email with your contacts! SHARE YOUR MAPLE PHOTOS – We love seeing photos and stories about your maple plantings – please send them along to info@mapleleavesforever.ca. Our THANK YOU REBATE gives you 25% towards the cost of approved… READ MORE »Summer News – Summer tree care, watering, pests and more
This article is a follow up to Carl Mansfield, tree consultant for MLF farm visit on September 7, 2019. On June 22, 2020, Deb Pella Keen, Executive Director, MLF visited the MLF farm with Ken Jewett, founder of MLF. We again observed the Lymantria dispar dispar or LDD moth (also known as European Gypsy Moth) larvae feeding on several trees,… READ MORE »Caterpillar and Moth pests – update Summer 2020
Spring is planting season! A message from our Executive Director, Deb Pella Keen First and foremost, I hope you and your families are safe and well. The last few weeks have been unprecedented for all of us as the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have been felt closer to home – in the communities in which we live, work and… READ MORE »Spring News – Nurseries, MLF Rebate and COVID-19
Maple Leaves Forever participated in Forests Ontario’s annual conference held on February 14th at the Nottawasaga Inn and Convention Centre in Alliston, Ontario. More than two hundred and fifty forestry professionals, woodlot owners and educators and college students from across Ontario took in the day-long event. Our Executive Director Deb Pella Keen and Arboreal Consultant Carl Mansfield provide information on… READ MORE »Forests Ontario Conference – We the Forest!
In the later fall and winter, when other food sources are scarce, voles, mice and rabbits eat the bark and underlying tissue of young trees. Voles frequently girdle a tree by removing a continuous strip of bark and cambium around the circumference of the tree, usually within 30 cm of the base of the tree. Trees do not recover from… READ MORE »Fall-Winter tree care PSA – protect from animal damage
Newly planted trees (those planted within the past three years) require regular watering and care throughout the annual growing season. The first few years are the most critical to their long term survival and growth. A 200-250 cm sugar maple sapling that was planted as a bare root tree in mid-May 2018. Note the hardwood mulch placed around the base… READ MORE »Watering our young maples – Tree care on the MLF farm Part 2
Carl Mansfield, MLF’s Arboreal Consultant, spent a morning recently with Woodlot Manager Mike Fisher at the MLF farm. Carl writes: We checked out the Comfort Maple saplings that we planted in May, 2018 and later toured the property with Mike to see if other trees might need our attention. Mike has been watering the maple saplings trees regularly (it has… READ MORE »Pruning & Spongy moths (LDD/Gypsy Moths) – Tree care at the Maple Leaves Forever farm Part 1
