Birch Path Healing Forest Planting & Final Report

[ShellCrabtree]

• Plantings to take place on September 22 and September 30
• Call out to volunteers for September 30th to come help (note this is a stat holiday)
• Staff to help includes Jodi and Marty

[ShellCrabtree]

Prepare final report with link provided by TC: https://tree-canada.secure-platform.com/a/organizations/main/submissions/details/13369

Reimbursement form that can be used to fill out. Reimbursement-Form_-Formulaire-remboursement.xlsx

[smlambert]

TBD Shelley to confirm the plant list / numbers

5 plantings for this project

May 6: Site prep and Spring planting with Norman Johnston high school students (~15 students)

• 6 serviceberries (4 large, 2 small)
• 1 gooseberry

Sept 22: Fall Equinox / Launch Day / Seed Dance planting (~60 attendees)

• 2 rose
• 2 flowering raspberry
• 1 currant (native)
• 1 plum (native)
• 2 elderberry
• 6 black raspberry
• 1 redbud
• 6 serviceberry
• 8 haskap
• 3 high bush blueberry
• 3 low bush blueberry

Sept 30: National Truth and Reconciliation Day Planting and Mulching with Lester B. Pearson High School students (~30 students)

• 1 redbud
• 4 serviceberry
• 4 elderberry
• 2 haskap
• 4 black raspberry
• 2 white sage

Oct 6: KAIROS Blanket exercise planting (~20 attendees)

• 4 elderberries
• 2 bunchberry
• 1 native plum
• 1 eastern redbud
• 2 haskap
• 2 serviceberry (small)
• 1 chokeberry / aronia

Nov 8: EY volunteers (11 attendees)

• 2 elderberry
• 1 serviceberry (the other was planted in Field 2 / FCF BoO)
• 4 burr oak (seedlings from acorns of the pre-confederation Champlain Park oaks, planted in the area to the right of the BP)
• 2 native roses

[smlambert]

The original grant had approval for 72 trees/shrubs, there have been 66 planted so far. I will donate a few more from Nanabush to bring it up to 70.

Suggest we pull the remainder from the FCF stock (aronia, saskatoon, other?) to complete the berry path.
@jodinewman - do we have a couple more aronia available for this project?

[jodinewman]

We can swap a couple of Aronia allocated for the OCF Tiny Forests and swap with something else, or we do still have serviceberry (canadensis) and haskap.

[jodinewman]

I set 2 x serviceberry outside of the Nanabush greenhouse.

[smlambert]

I set 2 x serviceberry outside of the Nanabush greenhouse.

We probably don't need them. I pulled some more lowbush blueberry and elderberry from Nanabush stock to get to the 72 shrubs planted, though I am not opposed to planting 2 more to bring it to 76 (there is room at the site).

[smlambert]

Copying invoices and summaries into this shared folder

There are 1 or 2 more to put in and then we are complete (and nearing the limit of the grant $4700).

[smlambert]

@ShellCrabtree - summary of invoices and photos in this document in the folder

[ShellCrabtree]

Final report submitted November 30 in TC portal and reimbursement budget approved - email from TC Dec. 1st 2024.