Not Far From The Tree

Not Far From the Tree is hosting a FREE native tree giveaway on Saturday, June 6th from 8 am to 12 pm during Evergreen’s Saturday farmers’ market! 🌳

The Neighborhood Tree Giveaway Program supports the City of Toronto’s goal of reaching a 40% tree canopy cover by 2050. The City of Toronto provides all trees, which are native to Toronto’s seed zone and suited for our urban environment.

🪴 We are giving away Elderberry and Serviceberry. Each household may order a maximum of 2 trees. You can order 1 of each, or 2 of the same trees (if quantities allow).

You will receive your tree(s), an information sheet on your selected species, as well as a small paper bag of mulch to use after you plant it on your property. 🌲

Calling all fruit lovers and volunteers! If you want to spend some time under the fruit trees in Toronto's urban orchard this summer, this post is for you.

There are many ways to get involved with our Fruit Picking Program; the most straightforward are as a Fruit Picker, Pick Leader or Tree Registrant!

🍎 FRUIT PICKING is a great way to become acquainted with the city’s urban orchard, spend time outside in lush backyards, meet new people, and enjoy fresh, locally grown fruit in your own neighbourhood. It’s pretty dreamy!

🍒 If you enjoy facilitating groups of people, or offering leadership in community, the PICK LEADER role might be up your alley. Pick Leaders receive training to choose the time and date of the pick event, bring necessary picking equipment, teach volunteerrs how to pick fruit, and deliver donations to community agencies.

🌳 If you (or someone you know!) has a fruit tree with an over abundance of fruit - becoming a TREE REGISTRANT and sharing your bounty means that we can pick even more fruit, and share it with even more Torontonians who might not have equitable access to fresh produce.

To support the expenses of running as many pick events as we can every year, we invite our community to contribute annually to our project, helping us continue to share the fruits of our collective labour. The recommended shares are $40 for Tree Registrants and $10 for Fruit Pickers. We waive shares for anyone, no questions asked, and especially encourage Indigenous folks and Youth to utilize this option.

🌱 LEARN MORE & SIGN UP AT NOTFARFROMTHETREE.ORG!

A wheelie big thank you to for hooking us up with this bike trailer, re-tired from its past life as a pandemic lockdown cheese delivery chariot.

This summer, it begins its journey of helping us deliver fresh locally picked fruit to groups in Toronto tackling food insecurity!

Do you have an unused bike trailer that would like to gear up for fruit delivery? We’d love to get its wheels spinning. Get in touch!