Join us for our AGM 2024 and Spring Meeting When: April 18th Time: 7:00pm Where: Zoom meeting, send us an email to join and get the link Who: Everyone is welcome. Open to all. This spring we are hosting LEGS AGM and Spring Meeting online, to make it easy and accessible to everyone. Come find out what we’ve been up to over the winter and what’s growing this coming season. Board Members – 2 positions open When you Join us for our AGM 2024 and Spring Meeting, you can join our board! Read Below. AGM 2024 Everyone is Welcome Qualifications for Board Member: Member of LEGS in good standing Mi ..read more

Cork tags add a little pop to your plant markers! Join us for a ‘crafty’ session! Topic: Pots and Plant Tags! Date: Tuesday, Feb. 20 TIME: 6:30 – 8 p.m. Location: Long Branch Library, 3500 Lake Shore Blvd. West Join us to try a few fun ways to decorate clay pots and make labels for indoor and outdoor plants. Some recycled materials we will be using for plant markers are wine corks, flat pebbles, and venetian blinds! We will provide some materials and pots but please bring any ideas and items you think will add to our supply if you have them to spare. Or bring ..read more

Lake Shore West Garden Tour Details Our friends at the Lake Shore West Garden Tour (formerly the Long Branch Garden Tour) reached out to let us know that the bigger and better neighbourhood garden tour will take place on: Saturday June 22, 2024 Lake Shore Garden Tour Gardens Wanted Who can participate? You! Showcase what makes your garden special. Do you have a mushroom log? A collection of bird houses or bird feeders? Maybe your forest garden by the lake is full of Ontario native plants. Everyone is encouraged to enter. HIGHLIGHTS – last year the gardens of New Toronto joined ..read more

Our friends at the Lake Shore West Garden Tour (formerly the Long Branch Garden Tour) reached out to let us know that the bigger and better neighbourhood garden tour will take place on Saturday June 22, 2024 HIGHLIGHTS – last year the gardens of New Toronto joined in. This year the tour would like to include Alderwood and Mimico.  If you know gardeners in these neighbourhoods please forward this information to them.  In summary these are the 2024 tour neighbourhoods:     – Long Branch     – New Toronto     – Alderwood     ..read more

Our January 16th Garden Meeting: Winter Gardens Never Sleep 2024 Welcome to winter!  (we all thought we were getting off easy with a mild, El Niña winter season) The SNOW is here at last and so is the cold weather. But your garden is still buzzing with activity, with or without snow and so are we. Winter Gardens Never Sleep Learn all about this much over-looked garden season. Many of our backyards look barren and transform into still life art, especially with a coating of fresh snow. But under cover of the leaf mulch or 2 feet of snow, there is a network of busy ‘bees’ keeping our ga ..read more

Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 – 6:30pm Our fall garden meeting is about garden boulevards – are they right for your city garden? Let’s talk about naturalizing the neighbhourhood, increasing plant diversity, creating natural habitats for wildlife and beautifying our streets. Garden Boulevards are the hot topic this November. Learn more about “Boulevard Gardens” at our monthly LEGS get-together!   South Etobicoke is home to many streets with boulevard green spaces. These are the grassy spaces between the sidewalk and road. Also called “Hellscapes”. November Boulevard Gardens: This is a grea ..read more

Our October 17th, fall meeting is dedicated to trees and tree health. Need help with your fall tree plantings? Want to learn the basics of tree pruning and learn from an expert? Join our fall garden meetings to learn with Arborist Ryan Kuz from Karma Tree. Date: Tuesday, October 17th, 6:30-8 p.m. Place: Long Branch Library, 3500 Lake Shore Blvd. W. (just west of 30th St.) All are welcome. You can finally ask all of your questions about caring for your trees! And, you will be supporting a local business in the heart of South Etobicoke. Activities (also planned for our October meeting) Seed sor ..read more

Long Branch Tree Fest, happening this Sunday! LEGS – Our table will have information, plants, seeds, teas and more! Sunday, September 24, 12 noon- 4 p.m – 2023 LEGS will be there with a table showcasing our garden club, with plants and seeds to give away, and lots of advice from our garden club members.   We will also be selling our great herbal teas, plus some new herb seasoning mixtures, made from herbs from our herb gardens at the Daily Bread Food Bank.   Want to participate with us as LEGS member master gardener pollinator steward community food security advocate? to join email ..read more

It’s time to learn about Heirloom Vegetables for your gardens in our fall meeting! LEGS is starting our monthly garden meetings again in September!  You are all invited. All are welcome: beginners to Master gardeners alike. Date: Tuesday, Sept. 19, 6:30-8 p.m. Place: Long Branch Library, 3500 Lake Shore Blvd. W. (just west of 30th St.) Heirloom Vegetables – Learn about the beauty and bounty of Ancestral Varietals Presenter: Nancy Durrant, LEGS Co Chair Heirloom Vegetables are full of Colour Varieties! Fall Gardeners Wanted Seed Exchange is on Fall Harvest is on Tree Festival is on ..read more

A very exciting event: Long Branch Garden Tour When: Saturday, June 24th 10-4pm LEGS is taking part this year! Details Long Branch Garden Tour is a free event and this year they have expanded their tour to include gardens in New Toronto. Three of these gardens belong to our own LEGS members!  37 Gardens Participating in the 2023 Tour We have our LEGS gardens at the Daily Bread Food Bank included in the tour! Come view our Community Gardens on the Long Branch Tour: OPEN 10 a.m.- 12 noon only 3 Gardens! IN ONE GREAT LOCATION: 191 NEW TORONTO STREET – DAILY BREAD FOOD BANK GROUNDS our new ..read more