The North Bay Heritage Gardeners

10/02/2026

Your daily reminder to get out and enjoy our beautiful volunteer-managed gardens before they sleep for the winter 💐😍 There is still lots growing down at our wonderful waterfront!

09/16/2026

Celebrating 30 Years of Community Stewardship 💐

This year, the North Bay Heritage Gardeners are celebrating 30 years of community stewardship and volunteer commitment! Our work would not be possible without the countless volunteers who have dedicated their time, energy, and passion to helping keep North Bay’s waterfront gardens beautiful.

To celebrate this milestone, we are pleased to be featured in the Service Club display at North Bay Museum. If you are visiting the museum, we invite you to take a moment to stop by and learn more about our history, our volunteers, and the community spirit that has helped our organization grow over the past three decades. You can find the display on the second floor, right along the stairs.

Thank you to all of our wonderful volunteers for making 30 years of gardening, community, and service possible! 🌷🫶

08/13/2026

Join us this weekend at the Enchanted Family Fun Fest, hosted at Lee Park! We will be there hosting crafts, a floral arrangement contest, and sharing everything about our work! Come enjoy a fairy fun day with us 🌞 For more information on the floral arrangement juding, and how to take part in it, please email [email protected] for more info! 🌷

😍🎉🪄 We couldn't have pulled everything together for the Enchanted Family Fun Fest 2026 without our sponsors, and we are so grateful!

An EXTRA special thank you goes out to this sponsor, The North Bay Heritage Gardeners 🌼

👩‍🌾👨‍🌾💐 The North Bay Heritage Gardeners are a volunteer-driven group dedicated to the beautification of North Bay’s waterfront through community-based horticultural and environmental education.

Each season, over 200 Heritage Gardeners volunteer to work in teams along the waterfront, maintaining and enhancing our garden beds for all of North Bay to enjoy! These amazing community members deserve all the praise and support.

May they continue to thrive in beautifying, educating, growing, and bringing plant love to life in North Bay.

Not sure what Enchanted Family Fun Fest is?
Details below 👇

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Get dressed up (optional), gather your loved ones, and join us!

🗓 Saturday, August 15th, 2026
📍 Lee Park in North Bay, ON
⏰️ 10am - 5pm

Rain or shine!

🌼 Vendor market of amazing small businesses
🍨 Food and beverage including the ever delicious delights of Ever Cool Icecream
🪀 Trinket trading
🎸 Live music
🏆 Contests with prizes
🧝‍♀️ Enchanted outfits and vibes
🎨 Various DIY Guided Creations activities
🌿 Nature loving local groups tents
🫧 Fun bubbles station
🪄 Henna art, face painting, games & more

Spread the word! 🧙‍♀️🧙‍♂️🧝‍♀️🧝‍♂️🐲🦄🐸🧚🧞‍♀️🥳

EVENT PAGE: Enchanted Family Fun Fest

See you there!

We appreciate you supporting enchantment, whimsy, fun, and small businesses.

🔮 HUGE thank yous go out to our 2026 sponsors:
Ever Cool Icecream
photomill photography
The North Bay Heritage Gardeners
Bins and Bins
Laporte's Nursery & Greenhouses
North Bay-Mattawa Conservation Authority
Cards in the Yard
Studio Gillian
Jackman's Flowers
The Ugly Barn Farm
Earth & Sky Studio
Northern Flow Studio
Transmute with Allie
The North Bay Butterflyway Project
Be Wild Studio

🧞‍♂️ For more information, or if you have any general questions, please email us at [email protected], message us directly via social media, or comment on this post and we'll reach out to you.

08/08/2026

🐝🌸 Thank you to everyone who came out to Pollinators in the Park today! 🌸🐝
Although we had a rainy start, it turned out to be a truly bee-utiful day filled with learning, creativity, and lots of fun! We hope everyone who visited us discovered something new, enjoyed the activities, and left with a smile. 💛

A special thank you to Balloon Gifts & Entertainment for the incredible face painting, and to The Dipped Moose ~ Chocolates Treats ✨🫎 for the amazing treats (scroll to see the amazing photos)!

And, of course, a BIG thank you to our amazing volunteers! 🐝💐 We couldn’t have hosted this event without you, and we certainly couldn’t keep our gardens thriving without all your hard work and dedication!

For those who couldn’t make it this time, we hope to be back bigger and better next summer! 🌻 Until then, keep an eye out for our next event - we hope to see you there!

Thank you for helping us celebrate pollinators and our community! 🐝🌼

North Bay Museum and own of our wonderful volunteers managing the table! 🌷

Beautiful Balloon Gifts & Entertainment face paint! 🌸🐝

Our pollinator education booth! 🌱🐛

The re-potting station! Visitors got to re-pot and take home a pollinator-friendly plant of their own! 🪴

Some wonderful visitors taking a peak at some species on the microscope 🔬🦋

The delicious and stunning The Dipped Moose ~ Chocolates Treats ✨🫎 treats! 🍫🍪🌷

Some little visitors making their own buttons! 🎨

08/08/2026

🌧️ A rainy-day update for Pollinators in the Park! 🐝🌷
Due to the rainy weather, we will likely be moving today’s Pollinators in the Park event inside to the upstairs of the North Bay Museum! 🦋

If you don’t see our big blue tent outside, don’t worry! Look for signs around the museum directing you upstairs.

Join us today, Saturday, August 8, from 10 AM–2 PM for a fun-filled day celebrating pollinators, with free activities and goodies including:
🌱 Take-home seedling planting
🎨 Rock painting, colouring & button-making
🔍 Vintage stereoscope display
🐝 Hands-on pollinator learning
🎭 Face painting
🍫 Take-home treats from Dipped Moose

We’ll also be sharing information about volunteering opportunities and ways to support our waterfront! 💐

We hope you’ll still come out, stay dry, and enjoy a flutter-ly amazing day with us! 🫶🐝

07/27/2026

Join us on Saturday, August 8th for for a day of bee-utiful fun! 🌷🐝🍀

Our annual Pollinators in the Park event is back, and this year we will be hosting it alongside North Bay Museum ! Come visit us behind the museum anytime between 10 AM and 2 PM for a fun-filled day celebrating the amazing pollinators that help keep our gardens thriving! 🦋 🐝🐛

Bring your family and friends out to enjoy a variety of free activities and goodies, including:
🌷Hands-On Learning about Pollinators from Knowledgable Community Members;
🌱 A Guided Seedling Planting How-To;
🎭 Free Face Painting by Balloon Gifts & Entertainment ;
🔍Vintage Stereoscope Display and Viewing;
🎨 Rock Painting, Colouring, and Button-Making Station;
🍫 Delicious Take-Home Treats from The Dipped Moose ~ Chocolates Treats ✨🫎

While there, visitors can also take the time learn all about our volunteering opportunities and how they can help support our beautiful waterfront! 💐

Come join us for a flutter-ly amazing day! 🫶

07/13/2026

Join us for Flow in the Garden 🎶🧘🌷 on Thursday, July 23rd from 7:00pm to 8:30pm.

Enjoy a relaxing sensory yoga session, poetry, live music, and the opportunity to share a picnic with fellow gardeners, friends, and family. This peaceful gathering is a wonderful chance to slow down and experience the gardens in a new way. Bring a yoga mat, a few snacks, and your loved ones, and join us for an evening of connection and relaxation.

Meet us at the North Bay Waterfront between some of our lovely gardens in the area shown in the second photo! Look forward to seeing you all there 💫

05/26/2026

🌷Spring is in full bloom at the North Bay Waterfront! 🌿 We encourage everyone to come down and enjoy a walk through the gardens 🤩 You may even see some gardeners hard at work when you do! 🪏☀️

04/22/2026

Today is Earth Day 🌎!

It’s a chance to reflect on the spaces we share and care for. The waterfront gardens are a meaningful part of our community, shaped by many hands over the years, and a reminder of what can grow through a shared respect for the land. 🤲🌿🌷

As we head into a new season, we hope you’re feeling excited for what’s ahead!

Looking for simple ways to support the environment today and beyond?

• Pick up litter in your neighbourhood or a local green space
• Walk, bike, or carpool when you can
• Be mindful of your water use
• Compost or set aside yard waste
• Spend some time outside and take in the signs of spring

Interested in joining us this season as a volunteer? Click "See Details" below to register 🌱