Arb Expo and Plant Sale 2023
Join us Saturday, September 7, 2024 from 10 am - 3 pm!
A community celebration of trees and the many exciting things happening in the Arboretum lands! Join us for tours of the grounds, trails, gardens, research projects, tree climbing demonstrations, and an in-person Plant Sale (click here for plant list). Take home an interesting woody plant, grown in the Arboretum greenhouse and tended to by our dedicated staff and volunteers. 2024 details will be added to this site in the upcoming months.
Friday, September 8th, 2023 -- Pre-Expo Workshops & Events
Hunters, Fishers and Trappers: The Amazing Life of Spiders!
Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Workshop Instructor: John Reaume, Dan Schneider and Chris Earley
Please register here!
Canopy Music: Performance
Time: 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Tickets: General Audience $15 / Students $5
The Arboretum Expo: Canopy Music Performance Tickets, Fri, 8 Sep 2023 at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite
Join us for snacks and “Canopy Music” a moment of improvised music, poetry and tree-climbing performance with arbor-artist Kim Farris-Manning (voice/tree climbing) and musicians Catherine Nosaty (accordion) and Ben Finley (double bass). Composer Kim Farris-Manning is a competitive tree climber and winner of the Canadian Institute of Forestry Award in her graduating class at Collège La Cité in Ottawa. Musicians Ben Finley and Catherine Nosaty are both graduate students in Critical Studies in Improvisation at University of Guelph.
In the light of the golden hour, hear, see, touch and observe all the layers of life in a tree.
Saturday, September 9th, 2023 - Arboretum Expo: Tree Day! + Plant Sale
The Arboretum Expo will be held on the West Lawn and in The Arboretum Centre, with announcements and performances at the Gazebo
Gazebo Events and Performances |
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| 10:00 - 10:10 | Greeting, Land Acknowledgement and Welcome |
| 10:10 - 11:00 | Musical Performance by Reza Yazdanpanah |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Moccasin Identifier Project, Carolyn King |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | GUFF Henry Kock Tree Stewardship Award |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | Hear, Here Arboretum Presentation, Kim Martin |
| 1:00 - 1:30 | Climate Change Theatre Action Reading, Kim McLeod |
| 1:30 - 1:45 | How to Draw a Tree Presentation, Dawn Matheson & Richelle Forsey |
| 2:00 - 3:00 | Musical Performance by The Elderly Brothers |
| 3:00 - 3:10 | Closing Remarks |
Tours and Demonstrations(departure time from the West Lawn) |
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| 10:15 | Kids Tree Hike | Arboretum Naturalist Team |
| 10:30 | Wildlife Habitat Demonstration | Kellen Wood & Mike Yost |
| 11:00 | Honey Bee Research Centre Tour | Honey Bee Research Centre |
| 11:00 | Arboretum Side Trail Hike | Guelph Hiking Club |
| 11:30 | Gosling Wildlife Garden Tour | Nature Guelph |
| 12:15 | Arboretum Tree Tour | Arboretum Naturalist Team |
| 12:30 | Formal Gardens Tour | Cael Wishart |
| 1:00 | Tree Climbing Demonstration | Kellen Wood & Mike Yost |
| 1:30 | Elm Recovery Project Tour | Aron Fazekas |
| 1:50 | How to Draw a Tree Tour | Dawn Matheson & Richelle Forsey |
| 2:00 | Arboretum Side Trail Hike | Guelph Hiking Club |
| 2:30 | Gosling Wildlife Garden Tour | Nature Guelph |
| 3:30 | Tree Planting Circle at Johnston Green | Dawn Matheson & Richelle Forsey |
All Day Booths and Activities (10am to 3pm) in the Arboretum Centre / West Lawn |
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| Plant Sale | The Arboretum |
| Ask a Gardener! Information Table | Guelph Wellington Master Gardeners |
| Outdoors Club Gear Camp-Themed Relay Race | The Outdoors Club |
| Insect Table and Insect Hunt | The Wildlife Club |
| Honey Bee Education & Honey Sales | Honeybee Research Center |
| Biodiversity & Sustainabilty Info Table | UofG Biodiversity Inventory & Sustainability Office |
| Moccasin Identifier Project Presentation and Information Table | Carolyn King (The Moccasin Identifier Project) |
| Cycling Tips, Plans, & E-Bikes! | Guelph Coalition for Active Transportation Cycling |
| Information Table | Yorklands Green Hub |
| Guelph Urban Forests Friends Information Table | GUFF / Tree Trust / Pollination Guelph |
| Wild Ontario Bird Demonstration | Wild Ontario |
| Guelph Public Library Book Mobile | Guelph Public Library |
| Nature Guelph Information Table | Nature Guelph |
| Community Tree Plans | Trees for Guelph |
| Soundwalk of Oral Histories & Button Making Table | Hear, Here Arboretum |
| Organic Veggies & Information Table | Guelph Centre for Urban Organic Farming |
| Sustainable Water & Healthy Landscapes | City of Guelph |
| Compass and Mapping Activity & Information Table | Wild Outside |
| Information Table | Focus on Nature |
| Information Table | Wild Birds Unlimited |
| Information Table | Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots UofG Chapter |
| Information Table | Guelph National Urban Park Project |
| Information Table | Guelph Hiking Trail Club |
| Concession stands: | Laza Food Truck |
| Little Tree Cafe | |
| Guelph Water Wagon | |
Offsite Tours and Demonstrations |
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| Guelph Trial Garden (@ Turfgrass Institute) | 10:30 - 11:15 AM | Flower Arranging Demonstration |
| 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM | Trial Garden Open House 2023 - Varieties and Favorites Voting | |
| Tours of Turfgrass Research | ||
| Master Gardener's advice table | ||
| Houseplant and perennial sale | ||
| At the Guelph Centre for Urban Organic Farming | 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM | Open House with Samples of Flowers and Veggies |
| 11:00 AM | Guided Tour | |
| 12:30 PM | Tool Demonstration | |
| 2:00 PM | Guided Tour | |
| On Johnston Green | 3:30 PM | How to Draw a Tree - Tree Planting Circle with Dawn Matheson |
Special thanks to all our Sponsors!
Contact Dawn Ann Webster (dawnann@uoguelph.ca) for more information about future sponsorship opportunities.
A very special Thank You! to our local community businesses for their generous contributions of food and beverages for volunteers assisting with Arboretum Expo
Zehrs Eramosa | Zehrs Hartland | Zehrs Imperial | Eric the Baker | Buns Master Bakery | Lady Glaze Donuts
Polestar | Decadantly Yours | With the Grain | Ignatius Farm | Metro Edinburgh Road South