Invasive Species Awareness Fair

Join us at the Invasive Species Awareness Fair where you’ll meet environmental experts and some very special four-legged guests: a team of goats helping to clear invasive plants naturally! Residents will learn how to detect, report and protect Mississauga’s green and natural spaces while enjoying free activities on-site, including:

• Informational booths hosted by local environmental organizations
• Two Guided Walks (45 min to 1 hr in length) at 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.
• Native Plant Giveaway
• Prescribed goat grazing
• Live music by artist Benji Crane
• Face painting
• Garlic mustard pull
• Free food for fair participants
• See native reptiles from Ontario
• Meet & Greet with Forrest, our Forestry mascot!

List of vendors:

• Credit Valley Conservation Authority
• The Riverwood Conservancy
• Blooming Boulevards
• Invasive Phragmites Control Centre
• Mississauga’s of the Credit First Nation
• Face Painter
• Invading Species Awareness Program
• Scales Nature Park
• Mississauga Parks
• Benji Crane (live music)
• Ontario Invasive Plant Council
• Mississauga Forestry, Parks and Environment staff

Mississauga is proud to be a leader in sustainability, as the first municipality in Ontario to use goats for natural invasive species management.