Yorklands Green Hub
@yorklandsgreenhub.bsky.social
Aiming to create a hub of urban agriculture, sustainable design and public joy!
Discover our sustainability works at https://yorklandsgreenhub.ca/
#sustainability
Guelph, Ontario
Discover our sustainability works at https://yorklandsgreenhub.ca/
#sustainability
Guelph, Ontario
🎬Join a screening of Eternal Song—a cinematic journey through ancestral memory, Indigenous wisdom and the wounds of modernity.
We’ll share circle space with what stirred, and be in community together.
🌀Come feel, witness, and weave together in a time of great unraveling.
See details in the comment👇
We’ll share circle space with what stirred, and be in community together.
🌀Come feel, witness, and weave together in a time of great unraveling.
See details in the comment👇
November 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
🎬Join a screening of Eternal Song—a cinematic journey through ancestral memory, Indigenous wisdom and the wounds of modernity.
We’ll share circle space with what stirred, and be in community together.
🌀Come feel, witness, and weave together in a time of great unraveling.
See details in the comment👇
We’ll share circle space with what stirred, and be in community together.
🌀Come feel, witness, and weave together in a time of great unraveling.
See details in the comment👇
3 reasons to join #YorklandsGreenHub's board if you care about creating real, local environmental change.
What a board member will do:
🔎Address meaningful environmental issues
🙌Meet and collaborate with a group of like-minded individuals
💡Transforming goals into solutions to relieve climate anxiety
What a board member will do:
🔎Address meaningful environmental issues
🙌Meet and collaborate with a group of like-minded individuals
💡Transforming goals into solutions to relieve climate anxiety
November 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
3 reasons to join #YorklandsGreenHub's board if you care about creating real, local environmental change.
What a board member will do:
🔎Address meaningful environmental issues
🙌Meet and collaborate with a group of like-minded individuals
💡Transforming goals into solutions to relieve climate anxiety
What a board member will do:
🔎Address meaningful environmental issues
🙌Meet and collaborate with a group of like-minded individuals
💡Transforming goals into solutions to relieve climate anxiety
🌳We are joining forces with
@smallchangefund.bsky.social on a fundraising campaign - Revive the Yorklands: A Community Vision for Nature and Belonging.
Together, we're creating a model of urban conservation that upholds biodiversity, fosters reconciliation, and strengthens climate resilience.
@smallchangefund.bsky.social on a fundraising campaign - Revive the Yorklands: A Community Vision for Nature and Belonging.
Together, we're creating a model of urban conservation that upholds biodiversity, fosters reconciliation, and strengthens climate resilience.
November 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
🌳We are joining forces with
@smallchangefund.bsky.social on a fundraising campaign - Revive the Yorklands: A Community Vision for Nature and Belonging.
Together, we're creating a model of urban conservation that upholds biodiversity, fosters reconciliation, and strengthens climate resilience.
@smallchangefund.bsky.social on a fundraising campaign - Revive the Yorklands: A Community Vision for Nature and Belonging.
Together, we're creating a model of urban conservation that upholds biodiversity, fosters reconciliation, and strengthens climate resilience.
🗣️📝 Tell Us Your Testimonials! How did #yorklandsgreenhub transform your life?
If interested, please fill out the form below and share your experiences! Your responses are extremely valuable for the YGH.
Link to the form is here: form-can.keela.co/testimonial-...
#guelph
#guelphontario
#reformation
If interested, please fill out the form below and share your experiences! Your responses are extremely valuable for the YGH.
Link to the form is here: form-can.keela.co/testimonial-...
#guelph
#guelphontario
#reformation
November 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
🗣️📝 Tell Us Your Testimonials! How did #yorklandsgreenhub transform your life?
If interested, please fill out the form below and share your experiences! Your responses are extremely valuable for the YGH.
Link to the form is here: form-can.keela.co/testimonial-...
#guelph
#guelphontario
#reformation
If interested, please fill out the form below and share your experiences! Your responses are extremely valuable for the YGH.
Link to the form is here: form-can.keela.co/testimonial-...
#guelph
#guelphontario
#reformation
🌍Are you passionate about the environment and making a positive impact on our community?
We are seeking enthusiastic volunteers to join our Event Planning Committee and to plan our monthly walks at Yorklands!
Check link in the comments👇
We are seeking enthusiastic volunteers to join our Event Planning Committee and to plan our monthly walks at Yorklands!
Check link in the comments👇
November 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
🌍Are you passionate about the environment and making a positive impact on our community?
We are seeking enthusiastic volunteers to join our Event Planning Committee and to plan our monthly walks at Yorklands!
Check link in the comments👇
We are seeking enthusiastic volunteers to join our Event Planning Committee and to plan our monthly walks at Yorklands!
Check link in the comments👇
🦆In the 1970s, Guelph leaders and the GRCA bought the former Frank Kortright Waterfowl Park lands to protect them forever as parkland. In June 2024, the GRCA approved a plan to sell 20 acres, betraying that original vision and the public investment behind it.
November 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM
🦆In the 1970s, Guelph leaders and the GRCA bought the former Frank Kortright Waterfowl Park lands to protect them forever as parkland. In June 2024, the GRCA approved a plan to sell 20 acres, betraying that original vision and the public investment behind it.
🐦Help protect the Eastern Meadowlark, a threatened species!
Your donation to #yorklandsgreenhub
helps revive meadows and secure their habitat. 💚
👉https://smallchangefund.ca/campaign/revive-the-yorklands/
#smallchangefund
#WildlifeConservation
#guelph
Your donation to #yorklandsgreenhub
helps revive meadows and secure their habitat. 💚
👉https://smallchangefund.ca/campaign/revive-the-yorklands/
#smallchangefund
#WildlifeConservation
#guelph
November 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
🐦Help protect the Eastern Meadowlark, a threatened species!
Your donation to #yorklandsgreenhub
helps revive meadows and secure their habitat. 💚
👉https://smallchangefund.ca/campaign/revive-the-yorklands/
#smallchangefund
#WildlifeConservation
#guelph
Your donation to #yorklandsgreenhub
helps revive meadows and secure their habitat. 💚
👉https://smallchangefund.ca/campaign/revive-the-yorklands/
#smallchangefund
#WildlifeConservation
#guelph
🕯️The Yorklands Green Hub extends its respect and remembrance to all who have served and continue to serve. We honour Remembrance Day, Veterans’ Week, and Indigenous Veterans Day, taking time this week to reflect on their lasting contributions and sacrifices to Canada.
#RemembranceDay
#Canada
#RemembranceDay
#Canada
November 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
🕯️The Yorklands Green Hub extends its respect and remembrance to all who have served and continue to serve. We honour Remembrance Day, Veterans’ Week, and Indigenous Veterans Day, taking time this week to reflect on their lasting contributions and sacrifices to Canada.
#RemembranceDay
#Canada
#RemembranceDay
#Canada
We're happy to share our updated website with you!
Visitors will see our refreshed logo, interactive map, and improved layouts. All these updates aim to enhance the YGH experience.
See the changes for yourself. Check out the links below⬇️
Visitors will see our refreshed logo, interactive map, and improved layouts. All these updates aim to enhance the YGH experience.
See the changes for yourself. Check out the links below⬇️
November 6, 2025 at 2:35 AM
We're happy to share our updated website with you!
Visitors will see our refreshed logo, interactive map, and improved layouts. All these updates aim to enhance the YGH experience.
See the changes for yourself. Check out the links below⬇️
Visitors will see our refreshed logo, interactive map, and improved layouts. All these updates aim to enhance the YGH experience.
See the changes for yourself. Check out the links below⬇️
🌱Discover the medicinal power of local plants, herbs, and trees!
Whether you’re treating wasp stings, trying to reduce rash itchiness, healing fungal infections, improving digestion, or alleviating other ailments – these plants could help!
See details below👇
#guelph
#Yorklandsgreenhub
#plant
#local
Whether you’re treating wasp stings, trying to reduce rash itchiness, healing fungal infections, improving digestion, or alleviating other ailments – these plants could help!
See details below👇
#guelph
#Yorklandsgreenhub
#plant
#local
November 3, 2025 at 12:26 AM
🌱Discover the medicinal power of local plants, herbs, and trees!
Whether you’re treating wasp stings, trying to reduce rash itchiness, healing fungal infections, improving digestion, or alleviating other ailments – these plants could help!
See details below👇
#guelph
#Yorklandsgreenhub
#plant
#local
Whether you’re treating wasp stings, trying to reduce rash itchiness, healing fungal infections, improving digestion, or alleviating other ailments – these plants could help!
See details below👇
#guelph
#Yorklandsgreenhub
#plant
#local
In collaboration with our local partners, the #yorklandsgreenhub is fortunate to share an upcoming celebration of native plants and community growing!
The event brings together gardeners, seed savers, native plant enthusiasts, and environmental advocates for learning and sharing.
See details below👇
The event brings together gardeners, seed savers, native plant enthusiasts, and environmental advocates for learning and sharing.
See details below👇
October 31, 2025 at 4:20 PM
In collaboration with our local partners, the #yorklandsgreenhub is fortunate to share an upcoming celebration of native plants and community growing!
The event brings together gardeners, seed savers, native plant enthusiasts, and environmental advocates for learning and sharing.
See details below👇
The event brings together gardeners, seed savers, native plant enthusiasts, and environmental advocates for learning and sharing.
See details below👇
Joining forces with Small Change Fund on a fundraising campaign - Revive the Yorklands: A Community Vision for Nature and Belonging.
Your donations will support community programming and help us hire 2 new staff members. Funds also power the protection of the Ontario Reformatory lands.
Detail below👇
Your donations will support community programming and help us hire 2 new staff members. Funds also power the protection of the Ontario Reformatory lands.
Detail below👇
October 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Joining forces with Small Change Fund on a fundraising campaign - Revive the Yorklands: A Community Vision for Nature and Belonging.
Your donations will support community programming and help us hire 2 new staff members. Funds also power the protection of the Ontario Reformatory lands.
Detail below👇
Your donations will support community programming and help us hire 2 new staff members. Funds also power the protection of the Ontario Reformatory lands.
Detail below👇
🗣️📝 Tell Us Your Testimonials! How did #yorklandsgreenhub transform your life?
If interested, please fill out the form below and share your experiences! Your responses are extremely valuable for the YGH.
Link to the form is here: form-can.keela.co/testimonial-...
#guelph
#guelphontario
#reformation
If interested, please fill out the form below and share your experiences! Your responses are extremely valuable for the YGH.
Link to the form is here: form-can.keela.co/testimonial-...
#guelph
#guelphontario
#reformation
October 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
🗣️📝 Tell Us Your Testimonials! How did #yorklandsgreenhub transform your life?
If interested, please fill out the form below and share your experiences! Your responses are extremely valuable for the YGH.
Link to the form is here: form-can.keela.co/testimonial-...
#guelph
#guelphontario
#reformation
If interested, please fill out the form below and share your experiences! Your responses are extremely valuable for the YGH.
Link to the form is here: form-can.keela.co/testimonial-...
#guelph
#guelphontario
#reformation
Guelph Climate Action Network and partners are responding to the City of Guelph’s Community Call to Climate Action Report by hosting “Community Climate Forum 2025: Learn, Plan, Act." We're striving to ensure the municipality has a robust, outcome-focused, community-led plan to manage GHG emissions.
October 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Guelph Climate Action Network and partners are responding to the City of Guelph’s Community Call to Climate Action Report by hosting “Community Climate Forum 2025: Learn, Plan, Act." We're striving to ensure the municipality has a robust, outcome-focused, community-led plan to manage GHG emissions.
Joining forces with Small Change Fund on a fundraising campaign - Revive the Yorklands: A Community Vision for Nature and Belonging.
Your donations will support community programming and help us hire 2 new staff members. Funds also power the protection of the Ontario Reformatory lands.
Detail below👇
Your donations will support community programming and help us hire 2 new staff members. Funds also power the protection of the Ontario Reformatory lands.
Detail below👇
October 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Joining forces with Small Change Fund on a fundraising campaign - Revive the Yorklands: A Community Vision for Nature and Belonging.
Your donations will support community programming and help us hire 2 new staff members. Funds also power the protection of the Ontario Reformatory lands.
Detail below👇
Your donations will support community programming and help us hire 2 new staff members. Funds also power the protection of the Ontario Reformatory lands.
Detail below👇
🙌Last chance to join and enjoy a lovely evening walk around Matthew's Farmhouse today!
🚶More specific instructions about where to meet will be emailed prior to the event. Get a ticket before it's too late!
🚶More specific instructions about where to meet will be emailed prior to the event. Get a ticket before it's too late!
October 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
🙌Last chance to join and enjoy a lovely evening walk around Matthew's Farmhouse today!
🚶More specific instructions about where to meet will be emailed prior to the event. Get a ticket before it's too late!
🚶More specific instructions about where to meet will be emailed prior to the event. Get a ticket before it's too late!
On October 18, join Susan Ratcliffe for a walk around Matthew's Farmhouse, a heritage building on the Yorklands site. She will share stories of the buildings former occupants, it's purpose at the OR, and the significance of these heritage buildings to our community.
See the comment to get a ticket!👇
See the comment to get a ticket!👇
October 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
On October 18, join Susan Ratcliffe for a walk around Matthew's Farmhouse, a heritage building on the Yorklands site. She will share stories of the buildings former occupants, it's purpose at the OR, and the significance of these heritage buildings to our community.
See the comment to get a ticket!👇
See the comment to get a ticket!👇
YGH, alongside our local partners, extends a huge thanks to everyone who joined our Q&A session last week!
A special thanks to Dr. Nadina Galle for sharing insights from her book, The Nature of Our Cities. Your participation provided the perfect closing for #GuelphGreenReads.
#Urbannature
#Guelph
A special thanks to Dr. Nadina Galle for sharing insights from her book, The Nature of Our Cities. Your participation provided the perfect closing for #GuelphGreenReads.
#Urbannature
#Guelph
October 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
YGH, alongside our local partners, extends a huge thanks to everyone who joined our Q&A session last week!
A special thanks to Dr. Nadina Galle for sharing insights from her book, The Nature of Our Cities. Your participation provided the perfect closing for #GuelphGreenReads.
#Urbannature
#Guelph
A special thanks to Dr. Nadina Galle for sharing insights from her book, The Nature of Our Cities. Your participation provided the perfect closing for #GuelphGreenReads.
#Urbannature
#Guelph
YGH acknowledges the great harms that were perpetrated on so many Indigenous children for the last 150 years in residential schools across the country, some of whom came to be incarcerated as adults at the former Ontario Reformatory/Guelph Correctional Centre.
#guelph
#canada
#indigenouspeople
#guelph
#canada
#indigenouspeople
September 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
YGH acknowledges the great harms that were perpetrated on so many Indigenous children for the last 150 years in residential schools across the country, some of whom came to be incarcerated as adults at the former Ontario Reformatory/Guelph Correctional Centre.
#guelph
#canada
#indigenouspeople
#guelph
#canada
#indigenouspeople
On the #NationalDayforTruthAndReconciliation, YGH is working with our Indigenous partners to integrate the Indigenous heritage of the Yorklands (OR) property and the wise approaches to caring for the land into our programming and narratives.
#IndigenousRights
#Canada
#ontarioreformatory
#guelph
#IndigenousRights
#Canada
#ontarioreformatory
#guelph
September 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
On the #NationalDayforTruthAndReconciliation, YGH is working with our Indigenous partners to integrate the Indigenous heritage of the Yorklands (OR) property and the wise approaches to caring for the land into our programming and narratives.
#IndigenousRights
#Canada
#ontarioreformatory
#guelph
#IndigenousRights
#Canada
#ontarioreformatory
#guelph
Would you like to contribute meaningfully to the community and help cultivate a stronger, more sustainable and environmentally conscious future for all?
These opportunities are available to volunteers on our Events Committee at #YorklandsGreenHub!
See details in the comment👇
#guelph
#volunteer
These opportunities are available to volunteers on our Events Committee at #YorklandsGreenHub!
See details in the comment👇
#guelph
#volunteer
September 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Would you like to contribute meaningfully to the community and help cultivate a stronger, more sustainable and environmentally conscious future for all?
These opportunities are available to volunteers on our Events Committee at #YorklandsGreenHub!
See details in the comment👇
#guelph
#volunteer
These opportunities are available to volunteers on our Events Committee at #YorklandsGreenHub!
See details in the comment👇
#guelph
#volunteer
🙌Bring your questions to tonight's final Q&A with Dr. Nadina Galle, author of The Nature of Our Cities, to celebrate the wrap-up of this year's #GuelphGreenReads during #NationalForestWeek!
📍 University of Guelph Arboretum
🗓 Tuesday, September 23, 2025
⏰ 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
See link in the comment👇
📍 University of Guelph Arboretum
🗓 Tuesday, September 23, 2025
⏰ 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
See link in the comment👇
September 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
🙌Bring your questions to tonight's final Q&A with Dr. Nadina Galle, author of The Nature of Our Cities, to celebrate the wrap-up of this year's #GuelphGreenReads during #NationalForestWeek!
📍 University of Guelph Arboretum
🗓 Tuesday, September 23, 2025
⏰ 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
See link in the comment👇
📍 University of Guelph Arboretum
🗓 Tuesday, September 23, 2025
⏰ 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
See link in the comment👇
As #GuelphGreenReads summer book club on Dr. Nadina Galle’s The Nature of Our Cities wraps up, YGH is celebrating our discoveries by spotlighting S5E2 — What Can We Learn from the World’s Best Urban Forests? This episode offers practical ways to translate her ideas into action.
Link in the comment👇
Link in the comment👇
September 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
As #GuelphGreenReads summer book club on Dr. Nadina Galle’s The Nature of Our Cities wraps up, YGH is celebrating our discoveries by spotlighting S5E2 — What Can We Learn from the World’s Best Urban Forests? This episode offers practical ways to translate her ideas into action.
Link in the comment👇
Link in the comment👇
We are pleased to share that the final Q&A with Dr. Nadina Galle, author of The Nature of Our Cities, will now take place in person at the University of Guelph Arboretum.
This will be a special chance to connect with readers on this year’s #GuelphGreenReads summer book club.
See link in the comment👇
This will be a special chance to connect with readers on this year’s #GuelphGreenReads summer book club.
See link in the comment👇
September 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
We are pleased to share that the final Q&A with Dr. Nadina Galle, author of The Nature of Our Cities, will now take place in person at the University of Guelph Arboretum.
This will be a special chance to connect with readers on this year’s #GuelphGreenReads summer book club.
See link in the comment👇
This will be a special chance to connect with readers on this year’s #GuelphGreenReads summer book club.
See link in the comment👇
🙌Hey Guelphites, stay tuned for the 2025 #NationalForestWeek next week!
If interested in any of the events, be sure to check the link below, as registrations are required for several of the events!
👉https://guffguelph.ca/events
#guelphontario
#guelphlife
#GuelphEvents
#naturelovers
#canada
If interested in any of the events, be sure to check the link below, as registrations are required for several of the events!
👉https://guffguelph.ca/events
#guelphontario
#guelphlife
#GuelphEvents
#naturelovers
#canada
September 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
🙌Hey Guelphites, stay tuned for the 2025 #NationalForestWeek next week!
If interested in any of the events, be sure to check the link below, as registrations are required for several of the events!
👉https://guffguelph.ca/events
#guelphontario
#guelphlife
#GuelphEvents
#naturelovers
#canada
If interested in any of the events, be sure to check the link below, as registrations are required for several of the events!
👉https://guffguelph.ca/events
#guelphontario
#guelphlife
#GuelphEvents
#naturelovers
#canada