Green Snow Removal Services
Green Gardeners would like to extend an ecological minded hand shovelling service in the following neighborhoods:
- Annex
- Riverdale
- Cabbagetown
- Roncesvalles/Parkdale
- Junction
We offer a per visit rate starting at $20/visit and seasonal rates starting at $300.
Snow removal and complimentary de-icing with the following
Book Your Fall Garden Clean Up Now
Its been an interesting gardening year weatherwise, with record rains in the summer months and now verging on record drought in September. What will the Fall hold?
Are you too busy to take care of your garden? Preparing your house for sale ?
Looking for a different perspective on your garden?
Contact us to arrange a free consultation / quotation for a Garden Clean Up.
We pride ourselves on providing value priced garden clean ups that will transform your garden in less time you can imagine!
Elements of Fall Clean Up can Include
- Placement of Plants for maximum curb appeal and aesthetics
- Bulb Planting
- Best Time of Year to Plant Perennials
- Top Dressing
- Fall Pruning
- Transplanting Makeovers
- Lawn Overseeding and Top Dressing
- New Bed Creation with
- Weeding
We also do not use leaf blowers so we can work quietly and emit less pollution that leaf blower crews.
Keep us in mind for your Seasonal Urn Design and Installation
** Special ** Free Perennial Planting Plant List for your shade or sunny garden.
Urban Agriculture, Forest Gardening and Edible Landscaping in Toronto
The Green Gardeners Community Collaborative would like to thank its partners, staff and volunteers at Green Oasis on Broadview, an urban agricultural incubator/forest gardening demonstration site in the Riverdale community of Toronto. We are proud to say that the garden is well on its way to having planted at least 30 species of the “Top 100 Forest Gardening Species” listed by David Jackie’s seminal work: Edible Forest Gardens.
Green Oasis on Broadview is a collaborative effort between many social enterprise groups involving the Green Gardeners Community Collaborative, Our Homes Association, ChocoSol Horizontal Traders and Chocolatiers, and the charitable Seeds of Hope Foundation, all of whom are dedicated to being socially conscious organizations, promoting healthier living, and community building in Toronto. Our main goals with this project are to offer volunteers and members to experiment with forest gardening, bioinvenstive and permaculture techniques with the Toronto Skyline as a backdrop. 
The Green Gardeners through Green Oasis also aim to propagate edible plants in a forest garden setting that can be replicated in your own home, community or condominium, planting edible combinations (polycultures) from full shade to full sun. Some of our themes include Tea Gardens, Salad Gardens, and Edible Perennials that are native and/or shade tolerant.
Summer Time
We are taking advantage of the Summer to review how the Spring Season went and to plan for Fall and Winter Phases of the Year
Hoping to post some new photos on the projects we have been working on this year.
Stay Tuned Getting Ready to launch, project ground nut through Green Oasis on Broadview
The Home Renovation Tax Credit for Landscaping Projects
When you file your taxes next season (2009) you can claim 15% on a landscaping project whose expenditures exceed $1,000 but is no more than $10,000. This would allow for a maximum tax credit of $1,350.
Projects which include the following are eligible:
New sod, Trees, Shrubs, Perennials, Interlocking driveways, Decks, Retaining walls, Pathways, Irrigation and lighting systems, Ponds and waterfalls, Garden sheds, Professional landscape design services and Professional landscape contractor services
Check out these links for further information:
Get those seeds started up!
From heirloom vegetables to edible flowers and herbs, Green Gardeners now has a wide selection of specialty seeds available for you online. Take a look at our seed catalogue online and order through via email. Nows the time to get those seedlings started!!
Seed Catalogue pages 1-3 : Arugula Rocket - Lettuce (Selway)
Seed Catalogue pages 4-6 : Little Finger Carrot - Zuchinni Black Beauty
To order seeds: Browse through our seed catalogue and send us email to info@greengardeners.ca with your mailing address and a list of the names of the seeds and the quantity you would like to order. Don’t forget to inquire about all the other services Green Gardeners has to offer!
Book your Spring Garden Clean Up
Mid-Winter Musings
With the recent thaw that has happened, people are starting to think about prospects for a new gardening season. One thing interesting being a gardener is to feel the first hint of Spring each year. This year I sensed it on Groundhog Day. Although it was reported that the Groundhog saw his shadow this year, it felt to me that this will be an early Spring. Is it because I am well rested and ready for the Spring already? Wishful thinking? Perhaps.
We are starting to book our clean ups and jobs for the upcoming year. As with most gardeners and landscapers time/capacity fills up at some point. If you would like to contact us while there is ample time to discuss gardening for 2009, feel free
Landscaper Training on Stormwater * Press Release *
Water protection NGO and green landscaper partner to hold workshop - Stormwater Management Basics for Landscapers - Workshop, Feb 19, 1pm
Toronto, Canada - February 2, 2009
Toronto, Canada - February 2, 2009
RiverSides and Green Gardeners Community Collaborative Inc. are pleased to announce a workshop for green landscapers and those who are interested in greening their services. The workshop will benefit Toronto’s watersheds and introduce contractors and businesses to ideas about how to compete in a greener and more cost-conscious marketplace. It will help to build understanding of the benefits of linking environmental issues to client solutions for home and garden.
Join us on February 19, 2009 at Northern District Library, 40 Orchardview Blvd Room 200 from 1 to 4.30pm.
The landscape industry is rapidly evolving as larger ecological concerns become more pressing and the regulatory environment shifts. New certifications are becoming available for organic landscapers, and key indicators and ratings systems like LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) are setting the bar for meeting and exceeding regulatory requirements. A key component of all certification/rating systems includes onsite management of water - pollution and run-off prevention, site stewardship and ecological practices that contribute to improved urban water conditions.
At the workshop landscape contractors will learn how to add value for clients through rain and water saving programs. Case studies and hands on demos will introduce cutting edge developments in on-site management of stormwater, including rain/bog gardens, rain barrels, rainwater harvesting and other solutions. This is especially relevant in light of the City of Toronto’s 2007 downspout disconnection by-law which requires all Toronto’s residents to disconnect their downspouts from the sewer system. Homeowners in the combined sewer area of Toronto will be responsible for managing stormwater on their properties using rain barrels and/or other landscape solutions.
Participants will have a chance to network with Each participant will receive an information and resource kit to take home.
About RiverSides www.riversides.ca
RiverSides is a Toronto-based non-profit organization dedicated to urban watershed protection through reduction of stormwater pollution. RiverSides works with community groups, businesses and municipalties to provide the knowledge and tools people need to take action. RiverSides hosts homeowner education workshops, an educational website and community walking tours.
About Green Gardeners Community Collaborative www.greengardeners.ca
Green Gardeners Community Collaborative is a social enterprise that designs delivers customized green gardening and landscaping solutions to homeowners, commerical and community clients and partners. Green Gardeners has pioneered a low pollution landscaping/gardening service using bike trailers and hand tools, promotes edible landscaping to address food security and works with homeowners to reduce their footprint with their garden installation and maintenance projects.
This workshop is funded in part by the City of Toronto’s Community Program for Stormwater Management, administered by the TRCA.
For more information or to register please contact:
info@greengardeners.ca
or
info@riversides.org
