Spring Community Cleanup
2024-04-21 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | Terry Fox Circle at Couchiching Beach Park
Our annual spring community cleanup!

As the snow melts, alarming amounts of garbage and debris are uncovered, posing risks to ecosystems, waterways, and wildlife. Join us for a morning of community connection and environmental stewardship.

We will meet at Couchiching Beach Park in the Terry Fox Circle, where you will find the Green Orillia. We will have a community discussion, identify 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!

Garbage bags and gloves will be provided.

Be sure to share and spread the word! See you there!

5th Annual Green Orillia Garbage Cleanup
2025-04-19 10:00 - 13:00 | Ontario
For our 5TH ANNUAL Earth Day Community Clean Up, we so excited to be teaming up with the Orillia Naturalists’ Club and the Orillia Lighthouse!
On Saturday, April 19th at 10am, we will meet at the Peace Park Gazebo in Veterans’ Memorial Park (beside the Skatepark). Garbage bags and gloves will be provided!
Our community has endured a lot this winter – from unprecedented levels of snowfall, to a major structure fire downtown, to a historic ice storm – let us come together to clean up, check in on each other, and show our city some love. ♥️
Please share & spread the word!

13th Annual Seedy Saturday
2026-03-28 09:00 - 13:00 | Orillia Public Library, 36 Mississaga St W, Orillia, Ontario, L3V 3A6, Canada
The 13th Annual Orillia Seedy Saturday is sprouting this Saturday, March 28th from 9 a.m.to 1 p.m. at the Orillia Farmers’ Market in the Orillia Public Library. We are ‘sow’ excited for this day of seed sharing, exchanging, and connecting!
Seedy Saturdays are local events held across the country throughout the winter and early spring whereby local seed farmers and gardeners connect to buy, trade, and share seeds. Bring your seeds to share and trade! Don’t have seeds? That’s OK – there will bee seeds there for you to borrow from the Orillia Seed Library!
Chat seeds and all things gardening with our volunteer gardeners and learn about what’s growing on in our community and how you can ‘bee’ involved! Bring your kids for kids seed/gardening related programming activities. We welcome donations of your surplus seeds, which will be shared with community gardeners and re-circulated through the Orillia Seed Library located year-round on the second floor of the Orillia Public Library.
Some things you can expect at the event include: community displays, local seed growers and vendors with seeds and produce for purchase, resources, pollinator information, and kids activities.
The event is a partnership between Green Orillia, Mariposa Pollinators, Orillia Horticultural Society, Monarch Squad, Lakehead Orillia Farm Lab, the Orillia Farmers Market, and 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. The Seed Library is located on the second floor of the OPL.
The energy, enthusiasm, and efforts of dedicated volunteers is needed to make the event a success. If you would like to volunteer, or have any ideas you’d like to share, please connect with us by emailing greenorillia@gmail.com.

Bake Sale for Palestine
2026-03-29 10:00 - 13:00 | St. Paul’s Centre, 62 Peter Street N, Orillia
There will be a bake sale for Palestine on Sunday March 29th from 10am-1pm in the Banquet Hall of St Paul’s Centre. Enjoy an array of fresh baked goods, beverages and art!
This event is hosted by Simcoe County 4 Palestine with all proceeds going to support families in Gaza through the Sustain Campaign Network, a grassroots group of volunteers working directly with families on the ground to provide Mutual Aid.
Follow their work on Instagram:
@SimcoeCounty4Palestine
@SustainCampaignNetwork
