tree planting grants - Aug 15 deadline

[Rhonda Teitel-Payne]

Hi TUGgers,

The City provides grants to support tree planting projects and supplies free native trees and shrubs for community-led tree giveaways and planting events on private land.

Community Planting and Stewardship Grant

Application deadline is August 15, 2025 at 4 p.m.

The Community Planting and Stewardship Grant supports tree planting and stewardship on private land by non-profit organizations within Toronto.

Download the Community Planting and Stewardship Grant 2025 Guidelines .

Greening Partnership Grant

Application deadline is August 15, 2025 at 4 p.m.

The Greening Partnership Grant supports partnerships with public school boards, hospitals, colleges, universities, and other eligible institutions that will increase canopy cover through tree planting and stewardship on private land.

Download the Greening Partnership Grant 2025 Guidelines. 

[Bruce Van-Lane]

Do you live anywhere near the intersection of Oakwood Ave and Vaughan Road? Are you a Tree-Hugger TUGger?

Cooling down our summer swelter is not a job for concrete and dead wood. Nope, we need live trees in a healthy tree canopy all across the city. Pollinators and birds benefit too!

The Oakwood Vaughan Community Organization (OVCO) is making available free saplings to anyone that can plant them on private land. Twelve varieties of trees and shrubs are available.

But you must put in your request by October 12.

For contact information, varieties available and pickup location, please visit:

https://sites.google.com/view/ovco-org/home#:~:text=Register%20by%20October%2012th

Tree and shrub saplings are distributed every year in Toronto via community-led initiatives such as this one, funded by the city’s Community Planting and Stewardship Grant (see further below Rhonda’s posting of August 13).

Bruce Van-Lane
Member, Oakwood Vaughan Community Organization
on behalf of Arthur Gron, project coordinator, OVCO director