Your green thumb can give back to your community this season.
Ottawa needs more genetically diverse, locally-sourced trees that will feed people and mend our
planet. We have some excellent seed stock (from reputable sources: cherries, shagbark, some plum,
butternut, black walnut – thomas variety) , but we need your help to raise them for the
growing season.
Successful trees will be shared, you keep 1/3 and the remainder goes back to HHO for community
plantings.
Hidden Harvest will provide free seed stock and pot if needed, but otherwise it will be a
community-supported project: an online community of sapling sprouters will share knowledge and
questions.
For more information: Please email info@hiddenharvest.ca, with the title “Sapling Sprouters?”.
Answer: WANTED: More Trees to Harvest! Help us obtain permission to harvest more
food-bearing trees.
Currently we have permission to harvest about 20 trees, yet there thousands of food bearing
trees here in Ottawa hiding in back yards and alleyways, and hundreds of volunteers who are
excited to help harvest trees! Here’s how you can help us find them:
Post up the poster:
Download
& distribute the poster. Print it, Post it, Share it. Use whatever resources, talents and
skills you have available to spread the word. You can also talk to your friends, neighbours and
colleagues about becoming a Neighbourhood Leader!
Get creative:
Take pictures of your postering successes and share them with us on facebook or twitter
Approach a homeowner:
You can leave this leaflet with the owners of food-bearing trees to encourage them to sign up
their trees online. Download the leaflet here, print double-sided on regular letter sized
8.5″ x 11″ paper (print only the second page if you want to save ink), then cut each
page into two leaflets.
If you have seen leaves of a food-bearing tree that a homeowner might
let us harvest, then you need our leaflet!
Hidden Harvest Ottawa is all about encouraging folks to become stewards of the bounty in
their own yards, neighbourhood, and city! Interested in helping us lead harvests so we can rescue
more local fruit? Send an e-mail to info@hiddenharvest.ca to learn about when our next
Neighbourhood Leader Training Event is!
Boring posters are boring. The unfolded box looked a bit like a robot
so borrowed scissors and a marker brought it to life then we saw some hazelnut trees and a star
was born. If you’re not postering on your own property make sure you get permission –a map of public poster
collars is here.
