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Happy Fall 🍂! Tomorrow will be our last hike of the year, hopefully you can join us! Couldn't make it? No worries! We'll have a recap post on what we've seen this year. Stay tuned! Happy Friday! Our final hike of the year is happening on Sept 24 at 10 am. Come and learn about invasive plants in your neighborhood and how we can limit their spread. Register for free on: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/338457123367 Happy Friday! We finally got our gumball machine set up with native seed bombs!! If you're in the area, come and get a free native seed bomb at Grandravine Community Centre! The answer is… Autumn Olive! It’s not your regularly olive, this species is also known as Japanese Silverberry. It is native to temperate and tropical Asia and was first introduced to North America from Japan. It forms dense monoculture thickets that shades out native species and increases the nitrogen content of the soil. Its density can go up to 125,000/ha! Not all olives are the same! This is not the type of nice olive that’s used for oil pressing, salad or pizza dressings! Do you know what type of “olive” is an invasive species in North America? This month’s invasive plant is the Purple Loosestrife! Check out the post to see more facts about this plant! Hello everyone! It’s time for our monthly community hike where we visit a local park and identify a variety of invasive plants! The answer to last week's trivia is… black locust! Surprisingly, black locust is a legume tree and it has the ability of fixing nitrogen from the atmosphere. This can have negative effects on the local ecosystems by increasing nitrogen content in the soil. Another legume tree with this ability is Kentucky coffee-tree - a threatened native species in Ontario. You probably heard of nitrogen fixing nodules in crops like beans and peas. But there is also an invasive species that has this special ability. Can you guess which one?