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Have a desire to help out neighbourhood gardening efforts and a couple of hours of free time over the weekend High Park Stewards can use your help.Since 1996, the volunteer gardeners, or Boulevard Bed Squad, works out of High Park, organizing twice-monthly gardening blitzes year-round to address the parks many horticultural concerns, including
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