Yorklands Green Hub
On the site of the former Guelph Correctional Centre, 785 York Road Guelph, ON, Canada

Announcing our #GivingTuesday campaign! Next week we are asking you to join us in transforming the Yorklands into a hub of sustainable development, urban agriculture and public joy for Guelph We are hoping to add 100 new members before the end of the year. Become a member and invite your friends to join the movement.... #GuelphGives #GreenGuelph http://yorklandsgreenhub.ca/become-member/

If you have an interest in medicinal plants you might find this event of interest.

One of the biggest legal environmental ideas out there is that nature itself might have rights - to being protected, safe from destruction, essential to the survival of all life. Here's a documentary that invites you to watch and ponder this notion of the extension of legal rights to non-human entities. https://www.youtube.com/watch

Willowbank Hall, the gatehouse to the Yorklands site (the former Ontario Reformatory), wearing dramatic fall colours (Norah Chaloner, photo). It's a lovely time to walk as the seasons change in this unique urban green space we hope to preserve for Guelph.

The Ontario Reformatory, the heritage site part of which we envision as the home of the Yorklands Green Hub, was taken over by the Military Hospital Commission as the Guelph Military Convalescent Hospital from 1917 to 1921. Locally known as Speedwell Hospital, it offered disabled veterans vocational training in agriculture, woodworking and motor mechanics to prepare them for a successful transition back to civilian life. #remembrance day #Guelph Nov 11th #OntarioReformatory #OntarioRemembanceDay #Yorklands

Ideas for diverse sustainability-related educational projects are exciting to watch for as we envision the range of research and teaching opportunities at the Yorklands site. Here's one from Cambridge, beside the Grand River, an Indigenous food forest garden.

Saturday's the last day for our ARTSPIRATION 2020 live show at 10C Shared Space in Guelph. If you're downtown, drop in and see if there's a beautiful little piece of art that would be just the thing to add to your decor. The show will be attended by YGH staff from 1 to 4 pm. Bidding in the on-line auction continues until November 6, and all of the works may be viewed on the Yorklands Green Hub website at the address on the poster. Your acquisition of one of these pieces supports YGH's efforts to secure and protect a beautiful piece of heritage green space for Guelph future.

If you didn't make it to our live ARTSPIRATION 2020 exhibit of beautiful works by local artists, here are a few shots of the show at 10C Shared Space that closed on Saturday, October 30. Artspiration continues as an on-line auction, with the works each displayed on our website, and a link to the auction site to place your bids. We hope you'll visit the on-line show, and view these multi-media creations, many generously donated so the proceeds from the auction can support YGH's continuing work to acquire and protect 70 acres of beautiful Guelph parkland and create an environmental learning centre. We greatly appreciate your participation in and support for our vision. The on-line auction runs at yorklandsgreenhub.ca/art-at-yorklands (click on the menu tab to see the lists of artists) until Friday, November 6th.