How to grow a National Park in your backyard
Thursday, April 10, 2014 at 04:58PM The David Suzuki Foundation is creating a green corridor through the heart of Toronto with the help of 21 Neighbourhood Park Rangers and 14 amazing partner groups. This Homegrown team is bringing nature home to the city by spurring businesses, individuals and institutions to grow more green space this summer.
"Inspired by authors Richard Louv and Douglas Tallamy, in 2013 we embarked on a mission to establish the world's first "Homegrown National Park" by crowd-sourcing a vibrant green corridor along the former path of Garrison Creek, in the City of Toronto's downtown west end.
In the project's first year, our eager team of volunteer Homegrown Park Rangers spurred more than a dozen creative green interventions, from pothole planters and canoe gardens to butterfly friendly schoolyards and "parkify-ing" a residential street.
In 2014 we have expanded the project to adjacent neighbourhoods throughout the Garrison Creek corridor, and recruited and trained another two dozen amazing Homegrown Park Rangers that live, work and play in the area."
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