2024 Update –
The Tree Trust TBM has broken ground on their new native tree nursery! Located near Tomahawk Golf Course, this marks a step in increasing Tree Trust’s capacity to offer native tree stock to maintain and expand the urban tree canopy.
Tree Trust would like to thank Gerbe from the Blue Mountain Fruit Company for generously volunteering to till the site, keeping this project moving forward. Also, many thanks to Tobias Effinger from Arboreal Tree Care for his continued involvement in this project.

2024- Update! Trees are getting bigger at the Native Tree Nursery. We have planted out six basswood trees into the community from our nursery. We have eight more trees that are ready to go and 47 trees that are further sizing up in the nursery. Thanks to our very dedicated volunteer nursery manager – weeding and watering these trees all summer long! This summer 2024, we will be relocating and expanding the nursery to a more favourable site!
Knowing that the legacy trees we have cared for have made it to old age and likely have good genetics, we will be using their seeds to grow new saplings in the hopes they too will mature into beautiful, storied trees.
Our nursery is located at the Tomahawk Recreation Complex in Thornbury. Thanks to the many volunteers who helped harvest seeds and baby seedlings from older legacy trees, the seedlings have been transplanted in the nursery and the seeds are in cold storage until planting time in the spring.
Thanks to the Blue Mountain Fruit Company and Arboreal Tree Care for helping prepare the site, and to our Town Council and staff for installing protective fencing to protect the trees from rodents. Stay tuned for more updates!