Thorold Indigenous Unity Garden

09/03/2026

Volunteers Needed for TD Tree Days 🌳 McAdam Park

📅 Saturday, September 19
⏰ 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
📍McAdam Park, Thorold

TD Bank and Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority (NPCA) are teaming up to plant trees in McAdam Park, Thorold. This initiative will help increase the green canopy in our local parks.

NPCA is looking for volunteers to assist with the tree planting. They will provide gloves, shovels, snacks and refreshments onsite.

It’s recommended that volunteers wear long-sleeved, light-coloured shirts and pants with pants tucked into socks at these events. Consider bringing your choice of sunscreen and/or insect repellent to the event.

Please click below to register ahead of time. 👇
https://bit.ly/4x7vdnv

08/30/2026

Love this pollinator plant 🐝💗

Meet Blazing Star (Liatris), a native powerhouse for pollinators!

With its striking purple flower spikes and unique top-to-bottom blooming habit, Blazing Star adds height, color, and movement to the summer garden. Its nectar-rich blooms are especially valuable to bees, butterflies, and migrating monarchs, while its seeds provide food for birds later in the season.

Even better? Once established, many Blazing Star species are drought-tolerant, deer-resistant, and wonderfully low-maintenance, making them a beautiful choice for sunny, wildlife-friendly gardens.

Would you make room for Blazing Star in your garden?

08/30/2026

We are excited to announce that The United Guardian Brotherhood and United Sweetgrass Sisterhood will be volunteering every Friday alongside Southridge Community Church in Welland.

We’re grateful for the opportunity to work together in service of our community and support the important work Southridge continues to do each week.

Volunteer start times are flexible, with dinner service beginning at 6:00 p.m. If any of our followers would like to volunteer alongside us, please send our page a message for more information.

Together, we serve. Together, we strengthen community. 🪶 🐺

08/30/2026

Mark your calendars, our annual general meeting 🎉

DETAILS:
📆Date: Saturday october 3rd 2026
⏰Time: 11AM
📍Location: 11:00am AT Bridgewater Country Club

👉RSVP by 📞phone at (905) 871-8770 or by 📧email at [email protected] by Sept 18th 2026

👉PLEASE NOTE: Renew your memberships by September 18th as we will not be accepting renewals during our AGM event.

08/28/2026

08/28/2026

National Day of Truth and Reconciliation
Community Gathering
Wednesday September 30th 4-8pm
Free orange shirt white quantities last.
This event is to honour the residential school survivors and remember the children who never came home.

Please register:
https://forms.gle/hKCnZuZ7QpByWH517

08/28/2026

🌿 Growth happens in relationship.

Hands in the soil.
Voices raised.
Hearts open.

Join Jesse on Tuesday, September 1 from 5:30–7:00 PM for our next CommUnity Gardening Gathering at the Thorold Indigenous Unity Garden at Mel Swart Park.

As summer begins to turn toward fall, there is still much to tend, harvest, and share. Come care for the medicines, harvest sweetgrass, share stories, and simply enjoy being together on the land.

We’ll once again be joined by our Youth Drummers, their songs and rhythms moving through the garden as we work together.

Bring your gardening tools if you have them, your drum or rattles, water, and dress for the weather.

And remember, you don’t have to wait for a gathering day. 🌱 Please feel welcome to tend to the Unity Garden any day of the week. Spend some time with the medicines. Sit quietly. Every act of care matters.

🧡 Save the date: Saturday, September 19 when we will gather as a CommUnity for Every Child Matters. More details coming soon.

Until then…

We keep tending the garden.
We keep tending our relations.
We keep growing together.

Sharing. Discovering. Connecting.
Every strand strengthens our CommUnity.

🌱 Cultivating CommUnity, one seed at a thyme.


City of Thorold
Landscape Of Nations: Six Nations and Native Allies Commemorative Memorial
Indigenous Tourism Niagara
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08/20/2026

There is something special that happens when people gather with open hearts and willing hands. 🌱

Thank you to everyone who joined us this week at the Thorold Indigenous Unity Garden.

Growth happens in relationship.

Hands in the soil.
Voices raised.
Hearts open.

🌿 Join us again on Tuesday, September 1st for our next Community Gardening Day. Please feel free to tend to the Unity Garden any day of the week.

And as we continue gathering, learning, and growing together, please save the date September 19th, when we gather as a community for Every Child Matters. 🧡

Until then, we keep tending the garden.
We keep tending our relations.
We keep growing together.