Posted in In Backyards on Jun 29th, 2011
This past weekend, twenty Not Far From The Tree volunteers gathered for a few hours of training on how to become a Supreme Gleaner. Some Gleaners-in-training were old faces, some new, but all enthusiastic about going the extra mile to help Not Far From The Tree’s fruit picking program. We also took turns trying out [...]
Posted in In Backyards on Jun 14th, 2011
The fruit isn’t yet ripe, so we’re currently sitting idly at 0 lbs harvested for 2011. But Not Far From The Tree has grown by leaps and bounds each year. How much fruit do you think we’ll pick this year? Place a guess in the comments below and the person who is closest by the [...]
Posted in Events, In Backyards, Syrup in the City on Apr 1st, 2011
By the time our Party in the Park rolled around on Sunday March 13, we had collected 92 Litres of sap from five of our 10 tapped trees. Last year, the weather wasn’t ideal for sap collection, and the sap had pretty much stopped flowing by mid-March. This year, however, the sap has been flowing [...]
Posted in In Backyards, Syrup in the City on Mar 16th, 2011
Thanks to everyone who came out to our Syrup in the City Party in the Park this past Sunday. The weather was perfect to welcome the year’s first crop – maple syrup. Thanks especially to our maple tree owners who participated in this program and donated sap to our sugarin’ off. In total, we collected [...]
Posted in In Backyards, Syrup in the City on Mar 8th, 2011
Our Syrup in the City program won’t tap trees two year in a row, allowing tapped trees a full year to direct their energy to healing themselves from tap wounds. Today I walked over to a participating Norway maple tree from last year in order to see how the tap hole had healed up. I [...]
Posted in In Backyards, In the Media on Feb 24th, 2011
Photo by Suzanne Long. An article in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph shouts the headline, “Mulberry trees to be felled as fruit ‘stains pavement.’” It goes on to explain that local London councillors are pushing for two mature 70ft mulberry trees to be cut down for fear of the fruit staining the newly paved surface underneath. It’s [...]
Posted in In Backyards, Syrup in the City on Feb 21st, 2011
On Saturday, Syrup in the City volunteer Mark and I gathered our tapping supplies and ventured out into the urban forest. We had been given the all-clear from our volunteer arborists to tap four trees on three separate properties. Based on past years’ weather conditions, we had decided to begin tapping this weekend, so as [...]
Posted in In Backyards, Syrup in the City on Feb 16th, 2011
Last year, Not Far From The Tree embarked on a pilot project to bring the magic of the rural sugar bush to the heart of the city. The purpose of this was to continue Not Far From The Tree’s mission to animate the urban forest in a hands-on way to educate Torontonians about trees, food [...]
Posted in Events, In Backyards, Syrup in the City on Feb 4th, 2011
The end of winter is near and Not Far From The Tree is ready for the iconic food of the season: maple syrup! Not Far From The Tree is pleased to announce the launch of our urban maple syrup program, Syrup in the City, after a successful pilot program last year. This year, with the [...]
Posted in Foraged, In Backyards, In the Media on Jan 17th, 2011
An excellent collection of stories about food waste was recently featured in The Toronto Star. Among articles about the social, economic, and environmental aspects of food waste, one article presents “creative solutions to handle food waste,” with Not Far From The Tree as an example of just that. The article begins, “If you want to [...]
