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Environment and Sustainability

​​​​​​​​​​​Help lead the way in shaping a greener Brampton by supporting local environmental initiatives that create a healthy, livable, and safe community. Let's spark real change—empowering innovative projects, inspiring community action, and protecting the natural spaces we all cherish. Together, we can build a cleaner, greener, and more resilient city, ensuring the environment where we live, work, and play thrives for generations to come.

Photo of a group of people supporting a local environmental initiative. 

The Backyard Garden Program helps support food security in our city by providing residents with free soil, seeds and helpful tips to start their own backyard garden. Program participants grow and produce herbs and donate their homegrown crops to local food banks and community organizations.​​

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Throughout Brampton, there are 250 community garden locations that allow our residents to get in touch with their green thumb. Each garden location caters to about 250 individuals. Over the next two years, our goal is to build two more gardens.

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Brampton's Grow Green Festival celebrates individuals, businesses, and organizations leading environmental initiatives across the city. The festival itself promotes sustainability by showcasing local projects, providing educational activities, and encouraging community involvement in protecting and enhancing Brampton's natural and built environments.

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Each year, the Parks department hosts a number of clean-up initiatives throughout the City as we enter the spring/summer season running from April 1 to November 1. The program helps remove litter that has accumulated in our parks and aims to maintain healthy, vibrant spaces. Last year, the program saw 40,000+ participants and offers a variety of ways to get involved, including self-led clean-ups, community clean-up events, and school clean-ups.

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Pollinator Week is an annual week-long event to educate residents on how they can take action and make a positive impact on pollinators in their community​. The week includes fun, family-friendly activities such as a pollinator-themed photo contest with prizes, free native seed packs and honey lemonade at the Brampton Farmers' Market, downloadable colouring pages, daily social media posts, educational resources and​ more!

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Residents can hike, bike, walk, run or cross-country ski along one of Brampton's recreational trail systems, which offer more than 40 kilometres of guided and paved recreational trails throughout the city. Trails feature wayfinding signs and offer numerous opportunities to stop for new discoveries and adventures along the way.

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Typically held in March right before growing season, this event h​as been running for the past 7 years. Located at Century Gardens Recreation Centre, it's considered to be a Gardeners Trade Show, where over 1,000 gardeners gather to get their seed supplies for the season.

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City of Brampton's Tree Month, held each September, is a community initiative that promotes awareness and appreciation of the urban forest through activities like free tree giveaways, tree planting events, guided tours, and educational walks. It also encourages resident participation through contests, social media sharing, and local programs aimed at supporting environmental stewardship and expanding tree coverage in the city.

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Testimonial

"​Partnering with the City of Brampton has given us the opportunity to help build a stronger community. The Sponsorship team recommended a program that connected with our environment and sustainability focus amplifying our message through a campaign that saw over 10-million impressions. We highly recommend working with the City and its Green City initiatives to extend the importance of the environment citywide. CN is a proud pa​rtner of the City of Brampton and helping our community to be a better place to live and work.​"

Daniel Salvatore
Manager, Public Affairs, Ontario​