Hi everyone! We are inviting all our neighbours to join us for Starbucks coffee and cookies from our local treat company Butterbox this Sunday at 11 am!

Come and join us and bring along friends and family. We look forward to seeing you in the park! It’s located just across the road from the Eglinton West subway station on Eglinton Avenue West between Everden Road and Strathearn.

See you on Sunday!

PS. Bring your own coffee mug if you can, so we can reduce the use of disposable cups.☕☕☕

It’s spring time and the buds are opening up in the orchard and our apple trees are now blooming. This is a sign that the trees are working hard and using up lots of the energy that they stored in their root systems over the winter.

So, each spring we call an “All-Hands-on-Deck” mulching day to spread four cubic yards of duck compost from Speelman’s Garden Centre as mulch around the trees. And the Ben Nobleman Park Community Orchard volunteers responded to the call!

It was cool, overcast and, at times, downright rainy! But today was a perfect day to feed the fruit trees in Ben Nobleman Park with vermicompost!

Worm compost is a highly nutritious soil amendment that contains lots of microscopic organisms. These tiny creatures improve soil quality by actively processing organic matter. Through their hard work, they release large amounts of nutrients into the soil, which are then available for plants and trees to absorb.

So this year, we were excited to receive a donation of vermicompost from a company called Vermibec in Quebec. The company’s owner, Andrew Huxsel, came personally with his colleague Carl to drop off the compost and to help us get it onto the trees.

“This is a perfect day to use vermicompost,” he explained. “These organisms thrive in cool, overcast weather, and the rain will help them integrate into the soil.”