Ottawa South Eco-Action Network - OSEAN

06/20/2026

Celebrate pollinators, indulge your greenthumb, and join the community at Fletcher Gardens NOW for Pollinator Appreciation day!

We're teaching about butterflies with the Butterfly Way project, and selling plants and seeds for pollinators! Here until 2!

06/19/2026

As part of Pollinator Appreciation Day happening Saturday June 20th at Fletcher Wildlife Gardens, OSEAN will make doing a “make and take” butterfly watering station!

Bring your extra trays or pie plate or use one of ours! We will have pine cones, river rocks and sticks.

06/17/2026

📍Gaia's Organics Gardens

399 River Rd

📅 Wednesday, June 17, 9 to 11 a.m.

06/17/2026

☀️Nature is smiling today and the day is beautiful! Come join us as we add more native pollinator plants to the beautiful riverview gardens at Gaia Organics Farm!

🙋🏾‍♂️🙋‍♀️No experience necessary! Come learn with us - pick the brains of a Butterfly Ranger and OSEAN volunteers! 🦋🐛

See you at 9 am!

📍Gaia's Organics Gardens

399 River Rd

📅 Wednesday, June 17, 9 to 11 a.m.

06/16/2026

Very excited to see the city moving forward on community-led invasive plant removal.

Did you know a project coordinator has been hired who is responsible for developing and managing a partnership pilot to expand community collaboration?

From now until Monday, July 20, you can share your input via an Engage Ottawa survey on the tools, knowledge and supports you or your community group would need to help protect green spaces in your community: https://engage.ottawa.ca/healthy-greenspaces-community-action-on-invasive-plants

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Our thoughts? The city doesn’t need to be recreating the wheel here. Rely on the success of existing programs like Toronto Nature Stewards, focus on “Train the Trainer” programs to build up the number of local experts (many already exist!), utilize the tools and guides and workshops that are already provided by expert organizations like oninvasives.

The program that is needed is one that allows groups to quickly get up to speed and then get started in the field. For Question 7– the information/workshops/demonstrations does not need to be provided by the city. The city should be leaning into the experts that already exist in Ottawa

06/16/2026

Saturday is going to be amazing! We hope you will come and join in the fun!

06/15/2026

Thank you to journalist Gabrielle Huston for publishing this cbcnews article on the new invasive species insurance for groups who want to work on city land. OSEAN is thankful for the leadership of councillor Marty Carr- Alta Vista Ward/Quartier Alta Vista for listening to the challenges of community groups across Ottawa and bringing this issue to city staff!

OSEAN is exciting to ideally work directly with the city on invasive species removal this year as a result of this new insurance program!

06/11/2026

Join us 📅 Wednesday, June 17, 9 to 11 a.m.

The Pollinator garden at gaiaorganicseeds is looking great already! On June 17 we are going to make it look even better! Come join us as we expand this pollinator habitat.

399 River Road Ottawa K1V1C9!

River view, friendly people and doing work for the planet - not too many volunteer opportunities combine all of these things!

06/11/2026

Come join us on Friday June 12 to help expand the pollinator gardens in front of the Mooney’s Bay Intergenerational Early Learning Center at 2826 Springland Dr.

We have 200 beautiful plants to put in the ground

We will be 9-11 am. No experience necessary!

06/10/2026

Learn all about some common invasive plants from the experts at Rideau Valley Conservation Authority on June 20.

💚 The Rideau Valley Conservation Authority has a free invasive species removal workshop happening soon🌱

📅 Saturday, June 20, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

📍Main Office, Rideau Conservation Authority, 3889 Rideau Valley Drive, Manotick

More details in the poster

📣 Please spread the word

CAFES Ottawa, Ottawa South Eco-Action Network - OSEAN, Riley Brockington, Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library