Fleming College

Fleming College's mission is to champion personal and career success through applied learning. The college contributes to community success and sustainability through programs, services and applied research. Our Frost Campus, located in Lindsay, Ontario, is home to the School of Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences (SENRS). With over 1,700 full time students enrolled in over 25 programs, SENRS offers hands-on learning through field trips, field schools and projects that challenge students to put their newly acquired skills into action. SENRS is proud that they have more graduates working in the environmental and natural resources sector in communities across Canada than any other college in Canada.

School of Environment and Natural Resources

Fleming College’s Frost campus is home to one of Canada’s leading environmental institutions. We continuously strive to reduce our carbon footprint while aiming to achieve top industry sustainability standards. In fact, our campus is a living, learning lab for our students and includes many green features: community and pollinator gardens, arboretum; green roof; apiary; wind turbine; geothermal heating and cooling system; and a constructed wetland for waste treatment.

Fleming College Arboretum

The Fleming College Arboretum at Frost Campus was established in 2017 with a purpose to create a campus wide living laboratory, showcasing a native and non-native trees and shrubs in a variety of landscape settings (natural and aesthetic) for the purposes of education, research and community engagement.

Goals of Fleming Arboretum

1. Enhance the collection of native and non-native trees and shrubs on Frost campus in a manner that contributes to curriculum development and delivery at Frost campus. Education is our primary focus.
2. Increase canopy cover and improve biodiversity on the Frost campus in order to maximize the ecosystem services that trees provide in an urban environment
3. Create an additional, unique, publicly accessible green space within the City of Kawartha Lakes
4. Build strong linkages to the City of Kawartha Lakes and the Kawartha TransCanada Trail through the creation of accessible trails and interpretative and wayfinding signage
5. Foster collaboration on Arboretum related projects and design across Fleming College’s School of Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences, Haliburton School of Art + Design, and the School of Trades and Technology

Mission Statement

The mission of the Arboretum at Frost Campus is to create a campus wide living laboratory, showcasing a variety of native and non-native trees and shrubs in a variety of landscape settings (natural and aesthetic) for the purposes of education, research and community engagement.

Purpose for creating an Arboretum

There are several motivations for the establishment of an arboretumthat ultimately will benefit the Frost campus and the Kawartha Lakes community and fits within the objectives of the Frost Campus Master Plan. First, the arboretum can be used as an outdoor classroom by various programs including, but not limited to, Ecosystem Management, Forestry, Fish & Wildlife, Arboriculture, Urban Forestry and Outdoor and Adventure Education. Having a greater variety of trees on campus and increasing our overall canopy cover allows us to maximize the environmental services that urban forests provide, including improved air, soil and water quality, reduction of greenhouse gas concentrations, stormwater runoff abatement, wildlife habitat creation, increased biodiversity. Secondly, the creation of an Arboretum createsa new green space for members of the public to visit and utilize, further enhancing their appreciation of nature all the while improving their physical and mental well-being. Additionally, given that 2017 marks our 50th anniversary as a post-secondary institution, the creation of an arboretum would be a fitting tribute recognizing the good work that Fleming College has done in the communities in which it operates and will serve as a lasting legacy to usher in the next 50 years of Fleming College.