Nature is our cultural gift! Let’s care for it! Register here Enjoy helping to care for our magical ravine biodiversity hotspot in Hungry Hollow! It contributes to human well-being! You will also enjoy the rewards of mood enhancement through exposure to natural environments. Sign up and join us, heart offerings welcome using the extra register tabs.

Immerse yourself in our forest woodlot along the Robert Noble Native Tree Trail within the Ecology Park while helping ensure the native tree species success by removing invaders and planting a few seedlings. Learn about local trees and their benefits. Leave satisfied knowing you’re helping with a group project for everyone’s well-being. Families and adults, teenagers alike are invited to come out in the lush ravine environment soaking up the healthy air and nature’s beauty with others. Bring your gardening gloves if you have any, or we can lend you ours! Plan to take photos and ask lots of questions as we explore and care for the ecology park together. Meet at the Pavilion, access the nature park using Mary St., Norval's parking lot and walk down into the ravine past the ball diamond - hang a right and you'll see the central open sided Pavilion.

As fall approaches it gives us colour and much richness in nature’s harvest. Everyone leaves feeling more relaxed and fulfilled.

Nature is our cultural gift! Let’s care for it! Register Here Enjoy helping to care for our magical ravine biodiversity hotspot in Hungry Hollow! It contributes to human well-being! You will also enjoy the rewards of mood enhancement through exposure to natural environments. Sign up and join us, heart offerings welcome using the extra register tabs.

Learn from our Themed Educational Gardens as we prepare them for fall and spring’s new school groups while increasing your mindfulness and a sense of purpose. Families and adults, teenagers alike are invited to come out in the lush ravine environment soaking up the healthy air and nature’s beauty with others. Bring your gardening gloves if you have any, or we can lend you ours! Plan to take photos and ask lots of questions as we explore and care for the garden together. Meet at the Pavilion, access the nature park using Mary St., Norval's parking lot and walk down into the ravine past the ball diamond - hang a right and you'll see the central open sided Pavilion.

As fall approaches it gives us colour and much richness in nature’s harvest. Everyone leaves feeling more relaxed and fulfilled.

Nature is our cultural gift! Let’s care for it! Register Here Enjoy helping to care for our magical ravine biodiversity hotspot in Hungry Hollow! It contributes to human well-being! You will also enjoy the rewards of mood enhancement through exposure to natural environments. Sign up and join us, heart offerings welcome using the extra register tabs.

The sparkling Silver Creek Trail leads to the wetland and Credit River. When people (and pets) stay on trails it protects native wildlife (e.g. birds, turtles) whose home we are visiting. Join us to enhance the trail by adding woodchips and foster social connections, while learning and developing skills. Families and adults, teenagers alike are invited to come out in the lush ravine environment soaking up the healthy air and nature’s beauty with others. Bring your gardening gloves if you have any, or we can lend you ours! Plan to take photos and ask lots of questions as we explore and care for the ecology park together. Meet at the Pavilion, access the nature park using Mary St., Norval's parking lot and walk down into the ravine past the ball diamond - hang a right and you'll see the central open sided Pavilion.

As fall approaches it gives us colour and much richness in nature’s harvest. Everyone leaves feeling more relaxed and fulfilled.

Nature is our cultural gift! Let’s care for it! Register here Enjoy helping to care for our magical ravine biodiversity hotspot in Hungry Hollow! It contributes to human well-being! You will also enjoy the rewards of mood enhancement through exposure to natural environments. Sign up and join us, heart offerings welcome using the extra register tabs.

We will explore the role of pollinator gardens. This is one of four special Culture Day Nature Theme events where you can learn from our experts. The Centre's Roadside Pollinator Patch, within the park, shows how to integrate flowers in our landscape that help our friends, the bees and butterflies, who make our food possible. Learn how to design one and help tidy it. Families and adults, teenagers alike are invited to come out in the lush ravine environment soaking up the healthy air and nature’s beauty with others. Bring your gardening gloves if you have any, or we can lend you ours! Plan to take photos and ask lots of questions as we explore and care for the garden together. Meet at the Pavilion, access the nature park using Mary St., Norval's parking lot and walk down into the ravine past the ball diamond - hang a right and you'll see the central open sided Pavilion.

As fall approaches it gives us colour and much richness in nature’s harvest. Everyone leaves feeling more relaxed and fulfilled.

Families and adults, teenagers alike are invited to (Register here) come spend an afternoon (or whatever time works for you) in the lush ravine environment soaking up the healthy air and nature’s beauty with others. Once we give of ourselves to this magical space by caring for it, we quickly receive rewards of lower stress, physical fitness and positive mood. This day the rewards are endless as we follow-up the park care activities with Yoga for adults while kids get to do a nature discovery walk and crafting program (parents can join if that is preferred). Please register for Yoga seperately so we know to expect you using the Yoga store item (there is nominal $5 fee). Then, we gather together around a fire and reflection circle to welcome the Autumn season. Fall is a time that gives us colour and much richness in nature’s harvest. Everyone leaves feeling more relaxed and fulfilled. See details below.

Agenda:

12:00-2:00pm Volunteer, enjoy Nature’s Reciprocity

There’s a role for everyone in keeping the beautiful Butterfly Habitat Garden of the Ecology Centre thriving.

We will cut back stems, tidy the paths and check in on the Monarch Way Station to learn about the role our garden can play in their success in Canada. Did you know the Monarch …. We have lots of little gloves and little tools for budding gardeners and kids that like to dig! And lots of bigger ones too... A great way to spend time discovering nature’s gifts as a family and feeling the rewards of helping it succeed. 

2:00-3:00 pm Yoga Under Trees + Kids Program

While parents take care of themselves with a chance for relaxation and stretching, we have a program for your kids with a short discovery walk and crafting. Yoga instructor, Maha, wants you to feel the benefits of breath and mindful relaxation. Kid’s program leader Tunde will engage your kids in the wonders of nature and a fun craft.

3:00-4:00 pm Equinox Seasonal Changes Circle

We gather around the magical fire to open our hearts to a new season, full of endless possibilities.

Leader, Maha, will provide guidance on setting intensions for our journey of letting go of summer and embracing fall’s new energies for self-empowerment. 

Come celebrate summer on June 22nd from 3:00 – 4:00 pm around a fire under the majestic willow tree with facilitator Maha Kali Jaya. She shares her musical talents and helps us fully embrace nature’s rejuvenating energy and reconnection to self and others. Together we will experience this circle of grateful reflection and intention-setting for the next season. People have shared that they leave feeling energized, relaxed, hopeful, grounded.

She also leads a yoga session from 2:00-3:00 pm this day. It is part of our Yoga Under Trees Program offered on alternate Sundays in spring and summer in the open-sided Pavilion. See you there with a mat and water bottle. Please register using the store link for the Summer Yoga item, we are asking for a minimum $5.00 registration fee and accepting donations of $10 to help further support the upkeep of the Ecology Centre.

Join us for both opportunities for self care and leave ready to embrace whatever comes next!

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Rebuilding Connections with Nature for Wellness: A unique workshop series guides you through a process to empower you with the skills to create your own practice for everyday healing and nature supported wellness. Inspired by parent requests and the knowledge that adults deserve guided nature engagement, to benefit from its many healing powers and joys. Join our trained leaders for this chance for renewal on 3-Sundays in May/June. See you in the beautiful Credit River ravine green space along the sparkling Silver Creek at Willow Park Ecology Centre. Here are your 3 wonderful days of personal wellness sessions:

Session 1 Getting Comfortable in Nature: Enjoy, relax-in and refresh-with the therapeutic gifts of Mother Earth.

Session 2 Healing Power of Nature: Learn to practice using the healing power of nature by immersing in the hidden benefits of nature’s resources.

Session 3 Gardening for Meals: We close off with a chance to find out how using food as a therapy can help to keep, the 5-elements within, our bodies balanced.

You're invited to join the community in celebrating Earth Day by appreciating nature and the environment at Willow Park Ecology Centre on Sunday, Spend Earth Day giving back to the planet through activities such as gardening and trails renewal, park clean-up and habitat care plus a nature-themed scavenger hunt! Refreshments and gardening gloves provided (or bring yours). Suitable for student volunteer hours. Everyone is welcome to join this free event by registering through this link. You’ll leave feeling connected and grounded!

Come join-in to welcome the wonderful energy of the new season around a warming fire. Connect to Mother Earth’s gifts in reflection and music by Maha Kali Jaya ( www.goldenagewayshower.com). Celebrate life’s sustaining earth, while connecting to others. FREE event, accepting donations. Willow Park Ecology Centre access and parking: Hwy 7 at Mary St, Norval (just east of Georgetown). Let us know you’re coming: signup through this portal and choose the donate $10 or the zero cost tab. Donations support resources for our children's programs and events.

On Family Day, Mon. Feb 17, 2025 from 1-3pm

Join us for a leisurely afternoon in the beautiful Hungry Hollow ravine along sparkling Silver Creek in Norval. At our past event a Mom declared: "we're a happier family when we spend time together outdoors!"

We offer :

-Guided Nature Hikes

-Hot Chocolate and Marshmallows by a Fire

-Self-guided Scavenger Hunt Walks

$5/person (under 2 yrs free). Register by Feb. 13.

willowparkecology.org. Park Access off Mary St, Norval, ON

https://www.facebook.com/willowparkecologycentre/

Take photos, share with friends. Happy Family Day Weekend!