How it works
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Your neighbourhood
It is the postal area you already live in, the first three characters of your postal code. Most hold one Champion; bigger neighbourhoods can hold a few.
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Tell us why
A five-minute application about your connection to the place and how you’d spread the word. We read every one.
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Champion it
Your name goes on the neighbourhood page, your invite code goes live, and your kit lands in your inbox.
This is what comes back
Not in a park somewhere. On your street, in front gardens and hell strips and balcony pots, once enough neighbours plant for them.
What Champions get
Your name on the map
Your neighbourhood page names you as its Champion, for every neighbour who finds it.
Your impact, counted
Every gardener who joins through your invite code is yours, and so is every native plant they put in the ground.
Print-ready tools
A personalized poster, cards, and a QR code for your neighbourhood. You show up looking official, no design work needed.
Host real gatherings
Garden walks, seed swaps, first-native planting afternoons, Champion-hosted events carry your crest.
A direct line
A private Champions channel with the founder in it. Features reach Champions first, and your ideas get named credit.
Seasonal missions
Optional missions that fit the gardening year, a spring recruit, a summer walk, a fall seed swap. No quotas, ever.
You’d be perfect for this if…
There is no Champion type. The best ones so far have nothing in common except caring about the place they live.
Here for volunteer hours
Champion work counts as community involvement, and we sign the forms. "Neighbourhood Champion" also reads rather well on a first resume.
Raising kids here
Want them growing up somewhere greener? This fits around real life: no meetings, no quotas, just what your season allows.
Decades of garden wisdom
Your street needs exactly what you know. Champions pass it along, one neighbour and one garden at a time.
New to all of it
Care counts more than experience. Most Champions learn as they go, with the whole Champions club a message away.
However you'd spread the word, it counts. There are no follower counts and no sales targets, just your neighbourhood, better than you found it.
Champions across Canada
The founding cohort is forming right now, every neighbourhood in Canada is still open, and founding Champions keep that title for good. Yours could be first.
Put your name forward
Five minutes, in your own words. We read every application and reply within a week.
Good to know
- It takes what you can give. A few hours a season is plenty. Seasonal missions are always opt-in, and nobody is counting.
- It’s a neighbour-to-neighbour role. You volunteer as yourself, for your street, and we back you up with tools, a private Champions club, and a direct line to the founder.
- Life gets busy, and that’s fine. Terms run by the season and carry on while you’re around. Need to step back? Just say so, and the door stays open for whenever you’re ready again.
- Already has a Champion? Put your name down anyway. Most neighbourhoods hold one, but a big or busy one can take on a few, and because terms run by season, waitlists genuinely move.
- Free, always. For you and for every neighbour you bring in.
Photographs
- A common eastern bumble bee, working a garden from spring to frost. Photo by Judy Gallagher, CC BY 2.0.
- An eastern tiger swallowtail, a regular over front-yard beebalm. Photo by Marvin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- A mason bee. One can pollinate as much as a hundred honeybees. Photo by USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, public domain.
- A painted lady, found in gardens in every province. Photo by Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 3.0.