The Environment Network

10/06/2026

🌱 Today at the Heritage Community Garden! 🌱

Bring your little ones to the garden this morning for some active play with our friends at CAPCHP! Kids can move, play or paint while exploring in the garden.

And while you are here, pick some fresh veggies to take home! 🥕🥬

We will be on site at 11am. Come play, explore and grow with us! 💚

10/06/2026

🌱 Fall Seed Saving & Marigold Garlands🌼

Join us this Friday from 3pm - 5pm at the Heritage Community Garden for an afternoon of Seed Saving & Flower Art!

Learn the basics of seed saving, collect seeds from this year’s garden and create your own labelled seed packets to add to our community collection. We will also harvest flowers and foliage for upcoming botanical art workshops.

Come share your garden knowledge, learn something new and help us carry this year’s garden forward into the next growing season. 🌿

Everyone is welcome!

10/05/2026

Hope Chapel is hosting our annual Thanksgiving Potluck and you're invited! Please RSVP to 705-445-4972 (leave a message) by Thursday, October 8th if you'd like to join in this community event.

10/03/2026

🌱 Harvest Tuesday is getting a little more playful! 🍂

This week, our friends from will be joining us in the Heritage Community Garden at 11am with fun active play activities designed to get little ones moving and building skills like balance and coordination.

Bring your little ones for some playtime, explore the garden, and pick some fresh fall veggies to take home! 🥕🥬

Come play, explore and grow with us! 🌱

09/30/2026

🧡September 30th | National Day for Truth and Reconciliation & Orange Shirt Day

Today, we pause to honour Survivors of residential schools, remember the children who never returned home, and recognize the lasting impacts on Indigenous families and communities.

Every Child Matters.

Truth and reconciliation is not something we do for one day. It asks us to listen, learn, reflect and take action throughout the year.

One small action you can take today: spend a few minutes reading through the 94 Calls to Action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Choose one that speaks to you and consider what action you can take in your own community.

✍️ https://nctr.ca/about/truth-and-reconciliation-commission-of-canada-calls-to-action

Learn. Listen. Reflect. Act.
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09/29/2026

Harvest Tuesday has a little fall feeling today!🍂

There is a chill in the morning air and the garden is starting to slow down, but there is still plenty growing at the Heritage Community Garden.

Today we will pick fresh greens, beets, beans and more to share with our community. 🥬🫘

The seasons are changing, but there is still a little garden goodness to take home.

Come by Harvest Tuesday from 11 AM to 1 PM and see what's still growing! 🌱

09/25/2026

🌍 Tomorrow - September 26 - is World Environmental Health Day. The theme for 2026 is "Standing with Science to Protect Communities." The evidence shows that we have the solutions we need to protect and restore the health of our environment and our communities. What we need is more action, especially action in the heart of communities across Canada.

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👨‍🦽‍➡️ 🚶‍♂️‍➡️ Sustainable mobility solutions reduce fossil fuel emissions, improve air quality and traffic safety, and improve equity and physical and mental health: https://buff.ly/aUPG9eE
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❔️ How do we accelerate the local solutions we need in communities across Canada? Green Communities Canada is working together with community-based non-profit organizations across the country to advance transformative, equitable, and lasting change.

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09/24/2026

Congratulations to the Head Strong Initiative team and all of our amazing supporters!

🧠We are proud to celebrate the Head Strong Initiative as a 2026 Community Builders Award recipient!

Head Strong was recognized in the Health Care category by@collingwoodtoday for the important work of supporting the mental health and well being of youth in our community.

This recognition belongs to the incredible people who make Head Strong possible, and to every young person who has been part of the program.

Congratulations to all of the 2026 Community Builders Award recipients, and thank you to everyone who took the time to nominate and celebrate the people and organizations making a difference in Collingwood! 💚

09/22/2026

It's a beautiful fall morning, sunny, clear and crisp! 🍂

It's a perfect day to visit Heritage Park Community Garden for Harvest Tuesday.

Come on over, help pick some veggies and greens, and take home some of the freshest veggies in town! We have beans, beets, baby carrots, Swiss chard, tomatoes and more. 🥗🌱

See you soon!