What Are Tiny Forests & Why Is Everyone Planting Them?

Six Miyawaki-style Tiny Forests have been planted across the region in three years. Volunteers explain how the dense native plantings work.

May 26, 2026

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Volunteer Nick Assad demonstrating how to plant surrounded by friends at Bagida'waad Alliance in Neyaashiinigmiing on Sept 23, 2024.

Submitted by Leigh Grigg and Beth Anne Currie, volunteers with The Sustainability Project and part of a group who led and installed the Tiny Forest at the Peninsula Shores District School in Wiarton.

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