Seedy Saturday
On Saturday March 22nd, we hosted the 12th annual Orillia Seedy Saturday at the Orillia Public Library. Seedy Saturday is an event where local farmers and gardeners connect to trade and share open pollinated, organic, heritage seeds.
This event was in collaboration with Green Orillia, Orillia Public Library, Orillia Farmers’ Market, Mariposa Pollinators, Monarch Squad, Orillia Horticultural Society, and Lakehead Orillia Farm Lab.
If you missed out on the event, we gave the seed library a good restock, and it can be accessed year-round on the second floor of the Orillia Public Library
About the Orillia Seed Library: Orillia Community Gardens and the Orillia Public Library partnered in the spring of 2013 to launch this ever growing public collection of seeds integrated within the public library system, schools and community gardens. An effort to gather, organize and freely share seeds and knowledge to realize seed and food sovereignty and promote diversity.
Garbage Cleanup
On Saturday April 19th, we hosted our 5th annual spring garbage cleanup. This year it was in partnership with the Orillia Naturalists’ Club and the Orillia Lighthouse!
Our community has endured a lot this winter – from unprecedented levels of snowfall, to a major structure fire downtown, to a historic ice storm – we came together to clean up, check in on each other, and show our city some love.
We met at the ‘Peace Park Gazebo’ in Veterans’ Memorial Park (beside the Skatepark), where we had a community discussion, identified high-priority clean up areas, and then split off into groups to clean up while some folks stay back to help sort the waste as it comes in!
We totalled 47 total participants and 200kg of trash / 60 bags collected!
While we hold these events for community building and to show that it’s ordinary people who come together to keep our communities clean & safe, we must keep our focus on the root of the issue: big polluting corporations and lack of government regulation. Litter should be tackled at the source, and the real solution is a zero-waste society and holding corporations responsible.
