Students and faculty in the Landscape Horticulture program at St. Clair College, along with workers from the City of Windsor, planted 900 trees at Malden Park in Windsor, Ont., on Oct. 21, 2025. The event was part of Planting for Tomorrow through the Trans Canada Trail campaign.
Participants planted dogwoods, serviceberry, spice bushes and other trees native to the Carolinian Habitat on the northwest corner of Malden Park, near E.C. Row and Matchett Road.
Landscape Horticulture program professor Jason Milling said, “Anytime we have an opportunity to get out into the community and achieve course outcomes is a win-win situation. Experiential learning like this helps the students reinforce skills and techniques that they have been taught in the lab and provides community benefits to the parks.”
"The importance of relationships like this between the City of Windsor and our program are valuable to the students as they will plant these native Carolinian trees with the guidance of the industry professionals," said Milling. "Every time the students come visit the park in the future, they can acknowledge that they were involved with the outcome of the plan."
First-year student Adam Olson was one of many students who participated in the event. "My knowledge base has just increased a crazy amount,” Olson said. “The teachers here, the workers, it’s just all helpful."
Adapted from an original article by Rich Garton Manager, Communications and Public Relations, St. Clair College.
