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OHA Helps to Replace Trees in Tornado-Stricken Ontario

The Ontario Horticultural Association has sent a total of $800 to Durham & District Horticultural Society, Gravenhurst Horticultural Society, Markale & District Horticultural Society and Woodbridge Garden & Horticultural Society to help in the recovery from the tornados this summer. The funds have been sent to the societies involved. These societies will use those funds to choose trees to plant in their local communities to replace those lost during the storms.

Societies Are Keeping Ontario Beautiful

There are more than 250 Horticultural Societies in Ontario working on projects to keep Ontario beautiful. The projects include a wide variety of activities like beautifying local parks, planting boxes in downtown areas, and creating and maintaining public gardens around government buildings, hospitals, health and hospice centres. Examples of these projects can be found here

OHA In Action

Volunteers are the Heart of OHA

Do you enjoy nothing better than getting a little dirt on your hands? Enjoying vegetables you’ve grown yourself? Walking through the garden in the early morning to see what’s blooming today? Lending a hand to restore an urban waterway?

If the answer is "yes," you should consider being a volunteer with the Ontario Horticultural Association. Through our local Societies, OHA is active across Ontario - improving urban landscapes, giving senior’s residences a hand with gardening, planting roadsides with wild flowers, planting trees in river valleys... the list of OHA activities is unlimited.

Volunteers are the backbone of everything we do. Whether you can help organize a flower show, do the bookkeeping, work on an environmental or community beautification project… or just share your favorite muffins, your assistance is most welcome.

Contact the nearest District or Society to find out how you can be an OHA volunteer.