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OCA is a non-profit organization working to ensure that Oakville becomes a sustainable, healthy community.

The 2008 Great Oakville Heritage Tree Hunt

A Celebration of Our Community Treasures

Do you know a Great Heritage Tree? Is there a tree you treasure for its beauty, its history, its special memories, its fruit, or as a favourite spot to relax and play? If you do, then please enter the 2^nd annual Heritage Tree Hunt.

Farmers Market

farmers market A new farmer's market has opened on a North East side of the parking lot at Oakville Place Mall (north of SEARS). It will operate every Thursday 8AM-2PM.

On Saturdays, the farmer's market at Hopedale Mall will continue to operate from 8AM-4PM and the Kerr Village Organic Farmers Market in Heritage Square, 340 Kerr St will be open from 9AM-1PM.

All sell Ontario produced food and organic produce. We encourage you to buy locally produced food. Help support our local farmers and the local economy, while choosing fresh fruits and vegetables that have not had to travel many miles.

By a show of hands...

We're conducting a survey! Ground Breakers is seeking feedback to gain a deeper understanding of our volunteers needs which will be used to develop services to support them and make our activities more rewarding for you!

To participate, please click here.

Oakvillegreen and Ground Breakers are on Facebook!

Find out about Oakvillegreen and Ground Breakers events on Facebook! Share stories and photos. Join our group!

Join the Plastic Bag Campaign

Worldwide a trillion (1 000 000 000 000) plastic bags are used and disposed each year. In Oakville, we use 87,500 of these bags each day - that's 31,850,000 a year.

It's time something was done about them. Many communities and countries have either banned them or put a price tag on them to encourage shoppers to use reusable bags.

We think the time is right for us to move in that direction.

Garden and reduce your carbon footprint

Summer is approaching. Plant your gardens after May 9th. Why garden? Read, Michael Pollan's New York Times article, Why Bother?. "The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world." (April 20, 2008)

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