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Care about the water quality, wildlife and natural environment of the One Mile Creek watershed in Old Town in Niagara on the Lake, Ontario.

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Resources for landowners in Niagara on the Lake

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Landowner Stewardship Guide helps residents

The Landowner Stewardship Guide developed especially for residents living within the One Mile Creek watershed in Niagara-on-the-Lake provides information about the watershed, how your actions can impact the environment, and gives suggestions for better environmental decision making. Get a free PDF download.

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Guide to Woodland Plants

Guide to woodland plants in Niagara

Plants of southern Ontario forests are not only beautiful, but essential to maintaining the diversity and health of our forests. A new guide available for free download makes it easy to identify native woodland plants of the Niagara Peninsula watershed.

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Pale purple coneflower in a garden. (Garden Making photo)

Native plant list for Niagara on the Lake

Suggestions for plants to be grown on the banks of One Mile Creek. Called a riparian buffer, the plants improve water quality by slowing the flow of water over the land, allowing it to infiltrate into the soil. Buffers also provide habitat, increasing biodiversity. The vegetation removes sediment and pollution, such as fertilizers, pesticides, bacteria and even road salt.

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5 ways to make a difference for the Creek

We have a tradition in Niagara on the Lake of private landowners taking efforts to further natural conservation. If you have a property adjacent to One Mile Creek, there are some simple but effective ways to help improve water quality.

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activities of friends of one mile creek

Neighbourhood community volunteers who came out to dig up the turf and plant Heritage Trail pollinator garden

Neighbourhood stewardship in action

A group of neighbourhood volunteers has created a pollinator garden at the entrance to the Heritage Trail at Paffard and Charlotte Streets, on the upper reaches of One Mile Creek.

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Unilever volunteers at King and John on June 8, 2022, with their harvest of weeds.

Unilever volunteers help weed new planting at King and John

A group of 40 volunteers from Unilever Canada converged on the Town park at King and John Streets on June 8 to spend an hour weeding the areas planted in 2020 with native trees and shrubs.

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Plants such as swamp milkweed attract monarch butterflies and other pollinators.

Pollinator garden at King and John flourishing

The pollinator garden at the corner of John and King streets initiated by Friends of One Mile Creek (FOMC) in 2016 is flourishing after five years.

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We need more green infrastructure in Niagara on the Lake

With all the discussion by federal and provincial governments about investment in infrastructure, Friends of One Mile Creek (FOMC) wants to increase the discussion about how green infrastructure can play a vital role in Niagara on the Lake through beneficial socio-economic and environmental assets.

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NPCA map shows 93 properties on One Mile Creek

The Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority (NPCA) maps show 93 properties in Niagara on the Lake that intersect with One Mile Creek.

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John Venables, Kathy Goulding, Beckie Fox, Viggo Zing, Klara Young-Chin, Michael Fox and Nigel Young-Chin of the Friends of One Mile Creek spent a morning doing a good weeding of the area they planted last year. (Mike Balsom)

One Mile Creek media coverage

These are some of the news articles about Friends of One Mile Creek that have been reported in local media.

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  • Neighbourhood stewardship in action
  • FOMC annual activity report for year ended March 31, 2022
  • Unilever volunteers help weed new planting at King and John
  • Volunteers needed to weed pollinator garden
  • We need more green infrastructure in Niagara on the Lake

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This website was developed in 2018 to encourage continuing conservation of our natural heritage in Niagara on the Lake.

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