It's almost time for Spring ReLeaf! Trees go on sale Thu at 10 am at ReLeaf.tw Pickup is Sat. May 30, 10am - 2pm at Bronx Park Community Ctr on Henderson Hwy. For more info, see below or click here to download a pdf version with working hyperlinks: tinyurl.com/35wdjykf

If you are thinking of planting a tree this spring, here are some things you can do in advance: 1. Click Before You Dig. Find out where underground utilities are at your site. Visit: clickbeforeyoudigmb.com 2. Watch our Tree Planting 101 video at youtu.be/Gb-C2lT27pY?...

Our 25th annual Arbor Day Celebration will take place Saturday, June 6 at Bruce Park. Join us for a tree planting, Ask an Arborist Booth, face painter and refreshments. More details to come!

Our Spring ReLeaf Tree Sale starts online at 10 am on Thursday, May 14, 2026. We will have over 600 trees on offer for $49 each, taxes included. A list of species will be released soon! 2026 marks ten years of ReLeaf. Since its inception, we have distributed 8,120 trees!

A nice tribute to Mike Allen in Saturday's Free Press. He was Winnipeg's city forester from 1988 to 2001, and died in June 2025, at the age of 79. Newspaper Link: www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif... Passages link (should be non paywall): passages.winnipegfreepress.com/article/id-4...

We have been a little quiet online in recent months, but we are working hard to put our 2026 programming together. In today's Free Press Community Review, there is a teaser about some of the what we have in store: www.winnipegfreepress.com/our-communit... #winnipeg

Environmental activist and chair of the Trees Please Wpg Coalition, Erna Buffie, released Out on a Limb: Saving the Urban Canopy. More on the book here, greatplainspress.ca/books/out-on..., or register to join her in an online discussion hosted by the Library: wpl.libcal.com/event/4005059

All Trees Count Town Hall, April 20th, 7PM, 180 Poplar Street. Be part of the discussion and hear speakers (including Winnipeg's chief forester) discuss the current state of our canopy and why trees on private land need protection. Register now! forms.gle/71SUm2Wie1wR...

When you plant a tree today, you make a difference for decades to come! #trees #winnipeg

Here's a great blog post from LEAF in Toronto about how trees survive winter! www.yourleaf.org/node/2216

In 2025, we attended 26 events, planted 255 trees, and sold 803 trees. We could not have done this without donations from the community. Today is GivingTuesday, Please consider donating at our Canada Helps page as we start planning our 2026 events: www.canadahelps.org/en/charities...

We had a lovely walk on Sunday afternoon in Bruce Park with members of The Friends of Bruce Park. We are hoping this will be the home of our 25th annual Arbor Day Celebration in June 2026. The planning has already started!

1/2 Extremely disappointing news that MB Hydro will cut 262 mature Siberian Elms on Selkirk Ave that are interfering with their power lines. According to a city email to the Free Press, "Despite our attempts to work with Hydro on a plan to preserve the trees through ...

Help fund the restoration of the Tree Planting Car located at the MB Agricultural Museum in Austin with your purchase of “A Prairie Odyssey: Alan Beaven and the Tree Planting Car”. More about the book and the car: releaf.tw/collections/...

1/3 We love planting trees at schools! In 2025, we planted at: Ecole Provencher (3 trees), Robertson School (3 trees), General Wolfe (8 trees), King Edward (5 trees) & Sisler High School (19 trees funded by MB Hydro Forest Enhancement Program)....

The last of our school tree signs are going up this week! We put one on each school tree we plant to let teachers and students know its name and how high it could grow. We also leave each school with a selection of tree-related books for their library.

Calling all tree planters! Several orgs are joining together to plant 60 trees and shrubs at Isaac Brock School starting at 10 am on Saturday, October 18, 2025, rain or shine. No experience necessary. Lunch will be served. Bring gloves! For more information: [email protected]

It was a beautiful, sunny day for our final school tree planting of the year. Five new trees for King Edward School on Selkirk Avenue. Thanks to the North End Community Renewal Corporation's NERI Small Grant Fund for its assistance to allow us to plant this many trees!

Saturday's tree planting at Isaac Brock School had to be postponed, but some of us got together to mulch the learning garden that students planted earlier in the week. The tree planting will take place on Saturday, Oct. 18th at 10 am, rain or shine!

**POSTPONED** Please note that tomorrow's tree planting at Isaac Brock School has been postponed to Saturday, October 18 at 10 am.

Thanks to everyone who bought a tree at our Fall ReLeaf sale. We were so busy, we forgot to take pictures! The total number of ReLeaf trees distributed in 2025 was 803. Since the program's inception in 2016, the number is 8,693. ReLeaf will be back in Spring 2026!

We enjoy finding out the results of the Woodland Trust's UK Tree of the Year award. Congratulations to the 2025 winner, Glasgow's Argyle Street ash tree. To read more about it and the other finalists, visit: www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-...

Thanks to everyone who bought trees at our Fall ReLeaf Sale!! Pickup is Saturday from 10 to 1 at Deer Lodge Community Centre, 323 Bruce Ave. You might want to check out our "Tree Planting 101" video before you plant! youtu.be/Gb-C2lT27pY?...

It's your LAST CHANCE to buy trees at our 2025 Fall ReLeaf sale. The online sale ends at midnight tonight. Visit releaf.tw/collections/... to place your order. The pickup date is Saturday, September 27 at Deer Lodge Community Centre!

Some have asked, and we are proud to say that 100% of the trees we purchase for our ReLeaf tree sales, inner-city school tree program, and other community events come from two family-run Manitoba tree farms: Jeffries Nurseries in Portage la Prairie and Aubin Nurseries in Carman!

Our 2025 Fall ReLeaf Sale begins online at releaf.tw at 10 am on Tuesday, September 16. Read the FAQ and click on Tree Packages at the top to place your order! Visit our Facebook page for an advance look at the tree selection: www.facebook.com/TreesWinnipeg2

The rain held off and we had a great tree walk through beautiful West Broadway on Thursday! That concludes our park walks for this year, though we may do one or two in the winter months!

Earlier is this year, we did a riverbank tree planting behind the First Universalist Unitarian Church on Wellington Crescent. We're glad to hear that the trees are doing well! From today's Free Press: www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

We're pleased to repeat our Tree Walk of the West Broadway neighbourhood on Thu, Sep 11 at 6:30 pm in partnership with Lights Unlimited & West Broadway Community Organisation. This free 1.5 hour walk starts outside the Broadway Neighbourhood Centre and ends at Great West Life.

Thanks to everyone wo came to our Elwood Cemetery walk! That concludes our summer park walk series, but we will repeat our West Broadway walk on September 11. More details to come!

Join us Thursday @ 6:30 pm for a Tree Walk of Elmwood Cemetery! Hear about the history from a local historian and find out what species of trees can be found there with an arborist. Meet inside the gates at Hespeler St and Beatrice Ave. (Note there is no parking, so please park on side streets.)

Thanks to everyone who came out to Vimy Ridge Memorial Park last night. Our next park walk is Elmwood cemetery on Thursday, August 28 at 6:30 pm.

A good news tree story in the Winnipeg Free Press: City planted almost as many trees as it removed last year www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

Join us tonight at 6:30 pm for our Park Walk of Vimy Ridge Memorial Park! We'll meet at the community garden area in the SE corner!

We took an arborist to visit ten of our school sites. Many of the trees that were struggling earlier this summer are much better thanks to doubling up our waterings and a week of cooler temps with a bit of rain. We removed two damaged by vandalism but none due to the drought!

Thanks to the Free Press Community Review for writing about our Sisler High School tree planting: www.winnipegfreepress.com/our-communit... This was funded by a grant from the Manitoba Hydro Forest Enhancement Program. #winnipeg

Thanks to everyone who came out to last night's St. Johns Park tree walk! Next Thursday at 6:30 pm, we will be at Vimy Ridge Memorial Park on Portage Avenue at Home Street. We'll meet at the community gardens area on the south side of the park.

Join us Thursday for our next park walk in beautiful St. John's Park on Main Street. Hear about its history and the many varieties of trees found in it. We meet at 6:30 pm along St. John's Avenue near Main Street. These walks are free and no registration is required!

CBC Manitoba released this story yesterday about the city's attempts to not only maintain the city's tree canopy, but to grow it: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... The city is not going to tree plant us out of this huge deficit in our canopy. We all have a role to play!

Thanks to everyone who braved the smoke and heat for tonight's walk of greenspaces in the West Broadway Neighbourhood. Join us next Thursday at historic St. John's Park, one of the city's first public parks! Meet at the Main Street and St. John's Avenue corner.

At 10 am the rain let up and we planted 11 more trees at Sisler High School. That's 19 for the year thanks to a ‪@hydro.mb.ca‬ Forest Enhancement Program grant Thanks to New Directions, Simon from Green Drop, and , @ariel-gordon.bsky.social for the help!

Our Summer Park Walk Series returns this week with a walk through two parks in the historic West Broadway neighbourhood. We meet Thursday at 6:30 pm outside Broadway Neighbourhood Centre, 185 Young Street.

Thanks to CTV Morning Live for talking to us this morning about the need to water your trees, our inner-city school tree planting program, and our upcoming Summer Park Walks! You can see the interview here: www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/vid...

Thanks to the kids at the early years program at Dufferin School this summer! We visited to give the trees an extra watering and they were so curious about trees and eager to pour out the water. We got them some supplies so that they can water whenever they'd like!

Thanks to the West End Resource Centre, New Directions for Children, Youth, Adults & Families, and some community members, eight new trees were planted on the grounds of General Wolfe School yesterday. They will provide beauty and shade for the kids for decades to come! #Winnipeg

Our Summer Park Walks series is back for a third season! Join us on Thursday evenings in August at 6:30 to find out more about the history and foliage of local greenspaces.

We spoke with Faith Fundal on @CBCManitoba's Up to Speed yesterday to talk about the tree emergency we called last week. Water your trees, folks! www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... #Winnipeg

🚒 We're declaring a TREE EMERGENCY! 💧

Our spring 2025 programming is done! We engaged 757 people and planted/distributed 741 trees at 15 events. Thanks to all of the volunteers, ReLeaf customers and donors who made this possible. We're taking a few days off to recharge our batteries and will be back with summer programming!

Today in Michaelle Jean Park we planted a tree with the Council of Women of Winnipeg to celebrate their 130th anniversary!