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Design Your Own Shoreland
Garden Workshop

Your shoreland can be natural but also beautiful, while maintaining access to the lake and great lake views. Attract butterflies and pollinators. Help your lake’s fish habitats and water quality. Deter nuisance geese. Increase privacy…All while supporting our healthy ecosystems for future generations!

Attend a workshop and take home new skills, resources, as well as a custom garden design for your shore using native plants - tailored to your aesthetic and your needs. 

Online Workshop
Onsite Group Workshop
Have Us Design & Plant Your Shoreland
Shoreland Guidebook

Our most popular workshop! Design Your Own Shoreland Garden

Sign up for an online Shoreland Garden workshop

Join seasoned experts with over 20 years’ experience in naturalizing, restoring, and designing shoreland gardens across Ontario.  Learn about plants, design aspects, lighting effects. Choose colours, heights, areas and more. Landowners can also take part in case studies here, to learn from other examples. Workshop topics include:

  • Permits
  • Native plants
  • Increasing biodiversity and functions (pollinators, birds, fish habitat improvement etc.)
  • Invasive species
  • Nuisance goose control
  • Limiting nutrient runoff
  • Erosion considerations
  • Plant species preferences
  • Design aesthetics
  • Step-by-step design

These workshops may be in person within a venue and classroom setting, or provided on Zoom. Have pictures of your shore ready with a focus on the riparian edge/shoreline.

*Please note that erosion control may be discussed at sessions, but erosion control designs will not be developed in these workshops. Instead they will require onsite site visits

Onsite Group Workshops

These workshops are on-site for your lake group in a venue of your choosing. Minimum attendance is 20 people at $40/each. Shoreland Garden workshops can be packaged and creative events. Ideas include having a give-away prize of a Natural Edge site visit and free plant giveaways for participants. Call us for more details and to discuss workshop, registration, and payment options.

Call us or email us @ 705-457-1222, info@thelandbetween.ca

Need a little more help? We can design and plant your shoreland!

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Nature Edge Program: Shoreland Re-Naturalization Plans, Plants and Expertise

A worry-free way to have beautiful species rich shorelands with a custom design, full plan and report!

Are you interested improving the health of your lake and keeping it pristine for future generations? Want to enhance your shoreland without having to toil in the sun? Our Natural Edge program offers expert consultation and plantings to do all of this for you!

Learn more about our Natural Edge Program

Resources For Natural Shoreland Gardens

Watch our Design Your Own Shoreline Garden Workshop Video to learn more about how to improve the health and habitat that you can provide on the shorelands of your property.

Interested in learning even more about shoreland gardens? Check out our detailed "Design Your Own Shoreland Garden Guidebook and Plant List"

Check out our Shoreland Guidebook and Plant List

Our Shoreland Workshops Make News!

Read about them in the Muskoka and Haliburton Life Magazine! Haliburton and Muskoka Life Magazine. Shoreland Garden Editorial

Even local groups come to us for advice!

 Abbey Gardens restoration ecology staff have attended our workshop in Haliburton and took away lessons in deterring geese, soil science and design expertise for public and private sites. Our staff/contractors have designed keystone shoreland gardens and goose deterrent projects for: Halls/Hawk Lake park in Algonquin Highlands; Rivera Park in Lindsay; Big Bald Lake Association; for Mr. Paul McIinnis' property, president of the Coalition of Haliburton Property Owners Associations (pictures below)  frequently showcased publicly as a demonstration site; at Head Lake in Dysart et al and for Haliburton Lake Association's Public Beach; and many private contractors too...

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"I was expecting a dry presentation, cold hard facts, but you added such colour, your enthusiasm was evident, your energy palpable. I thoroughly enjoyed myself! And I learned stuff!!!!"   ~ Sharon Petrini, Haliburton County

"Thank you Leora for Saturday's workshop. My husband and I both found it informative. We came away with some great ideas on how we can both beautify and naturalize our shoreland property." 

"If you have not heard enough praise for the Friday Workshop I will add it was amazing, & I think I learned a lot.  It seems my long held convictions of 58 years are being challenged everywhere.  The more I learn the more I know I do not know very much!" ~Terry Goodwin, Haliburton

We look forward to working with you to preserve the health and well-being of your lake and the Land Between bioregion. 

Learn more about shorelands and lakes by reading our blogs!

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Kennebec Wetlands Are The Best

June 13, 2022

Recent media attention has reported that a study by environmental scientists Cheng and Basu at the University of Waterloo has found that smaller wetlands are more beneficial to the landscape than larger wetlands. A fundamental reason for this is that small wetlands provide more habitat to grow aquatic plants. An acre of a small wetland …

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Cattail Tales

June 10, 2022

The Land Between and most of eastern Ontario has been redesigned by our road managers and by cattails. The landscape is now mapped and marked by lines of cattails following the ditches along the shoulders of roads. Almost overnight, with the help of the wind, cattail seeds from this network have reached all open, wet …

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Our Shoreland Naturalization Program Review 2021 is now available

November 25, 2021

With the support of TD Friends of the Environment Foundation in 2021, The Land Between charity and partners, including Watersheds Canada and Botanigals Ecological Consulting, were able to develop tools to support landowners in designing customized native shoreland gardens that are aesthetically-pleasing, functional and support lake health for future generations. We have created a Shoreland …

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What’s an “Ecotone”?

August 9, 2021

The striking physical features of the Canadian Shield ecosystem, known for bare outcrops of granite rock, of small lakes and thin layer of soil contrast with the St. Lawrence Lowlands ecosystem known for flatter lands, dominated by agriculture and limestone bedrock.[1] These landscapes are well known throughout south-central Ontario, however as ecosystems overlap and transition …

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Lessons From the Graylings of Red Chalk Lake

May 31, 2021

At The Land Between, stories are important to us.  Stories are great at sharing knowledge between generations and individuals.  This particular story comes from my Grandfather who was born and raised on the edge of Muskoka and Haliburton county as well as things I later learned at school.  Near the town of Dorset, where my …

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Future-of-our-Shores Report Highlights Need for More Shoreland Best-practices and Education

May 10, 2021

Media Release from Watersheds Canada – In partnership with a volunteer project steering committee of the Planning for our Shorelands project, Watersheds Canada is excited to announce the availability of the project’s first report, The Future of our Shores. The Future of our Shores provides critical insight into complicated questions related to: shoreland development and …

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Phrag Fighters Help Save Lake and Wetland Habitats

February 27, 2021

Invasive Phragmites is a large grass-like plant that is taking over Ontario’s wetlands and reducing biodiversity. The plant colonizes ditches, bays and wetland pockets. It grows in such thick mats that turtles, frogs, and other animals cannot move through their native habitats. The plant is also tall, and blocks sight lines along roadsides. In the …

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What the Phrag?! All You Need to Know About Invasive Phragmites

January 28, 2021

Phragmites australis australis, otherwise known as European Common Reed or Invasive Phragmites, is a fast-spreading, perennial aquatic grass found growing in wetlands, shorelines and roadside ditches. This aggressive plant crushes biodiversity by outcompeting our native plants. In 2005, Invasive Phragmites was named Canada’s worst invasive plant species by Agriculture and Agri-food Canada. What Does It …

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Are We Losing the Loons?

January 9, 2021

What is Happening to Our Loons in Ontario?   The Common Loon (Gavia immer) is Ontario’s provincial bird and a well-known character in cottage country – its mournful wails and uplifting laughter play the song of summer for many who retreat to the wilderness for peace and relaxation. With their striking appearance, magnificent diving skills …

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Clogging the Lakes- Eurasian Watermilfoil

November 27, 2020

Understanding Eurasian Watermilfoil: What is it, How Did it Get Here, What are its Impacts, and What Can We Do to Prevent its Spread? What is Eurasian Watermilfoil? Eurasian Watermilfoil is an alien of sorts…but not the kind of alien that you may be thinking of! It is called an alien, or invasive species, because it …

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The Land Between
P.O. Box 1368
Haliburton, ON K0M 1S0
705-457-1222
info@thelandbetween.ca

We respectfully acknowledge that The Land Between is located within Williams Treaty 20 Mississauga Anishinaabeg territory and Treaty 61 Robinson-Huron treaty territory, in the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg. The Land Between respectfully acknowledges that these First Nations are the stewards and caretakers of these lands and waters in perpetuity and that they continue to maintain this responsibility to ensure their health and integrity for generations to come.

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