Join Trish Ballamingie for a visit to the Just Food Community Farm, where people and projects come together to model and inspire small-scale, viable agricultural businesses and initiatives in the Ottawa region. This field trip includes: an interactive 'scavenger-hunt-style' exercise with Shelley Lambert of Forêt Capital Forest, codenamed 'Babimose' (meaning 'take a stroll' in Anishinaabemowin); and a tour of Chi Garden, a market garden specialized in organically grown vegetables, Asian vegetables and herbs, wild edible greens, and fermented vegetables. A delicious lunch of largely local fare will be offered by Chi Garden. Dress appropriately for the weather, with sturdy shoes for walking uneven terrain, and ideally, long pants that tuck into socks. Bring a water bottle.

Cost: $75 (includes lunch and transportation in charted bus)

Limited to 24 participants

Date: TBC

Duration: 6 hours

Start: 9:15 am @ Carleton University Loeb Building parking loop P-8 (off University Dr.)

End: 3:30 pm Carleton University Loeb Building parking loop P-8 (off University Dr.)

Join Elyn Humphreys, Peter White, and others for a visit to the Mer Bleue bog research site.  The Mer Bleue bog has been the subject of over 25 years of carbon cycle science and monitoring.  Learn about the natural history of this Ramsar Site, which designates Mer Bleue as a wetland of international importance, and learn about the ongoing science projects at this site including greenhouse gas exchange monitoring, remote sensing of peatlands, and drone-based GNSS survey field methods, among others. Appropriate outdoor clothing, good walking shoes or hiking boots, and water bottles are recommended.

Cost: $30 per person (includes transportation in charted bus)

Limited to 24 participants

​Date: Tuesday, May 20  

Duration: 3 hours

Start: 1pm @ Carleton University Loeb Building parking loop P-8 (off University Dr.)

End: 4pm @ Carleton University Loeb Building parking loop P-8 (off University Dr.)

Join Tonya Davidson on this walking tour that draws from her book on the social lives of the statues of Ottawa, Tours Inside the Snow Globe: Ottawa Monuments and National Belonging.  Monuments visited will include those in the newly re-landscaped Kiweki Point, in Major’s Hill Park, and on Parliament Hill. Participants will also be able to enjoy the incredible vistas of the many “Crown jewels" that line the Ottawa River. Offering many local and national histories, the tour will focus on how monuments produce significant places in the present, both for the locals of Ottawa and for those coming to visit the city as a showcase for the nation. Appropriate outdoor clothing, good walking shoes, and water bottles are recommended. You will also need to bring fare for the O-Train.

Cost: $10 (O-Train fare not included)

​Limited to 30 participants

Date: Wednesday, May 21 

Duration: 4 hrs (2-hour walk, plus travel time via Ottawa’s O-Train system)

Start: 8:30am @ Carleton University Nicol Building (entrance off P2 parking lot)

End: 12:30pm @ Carleton University Nicol Building (entrance off P2 parking lot)

Join the City for All Women Initiative (CAWI) to learn about their vision for transforming Ottawa into a caring city. Tunney's Pasture, a large site in the city centre developed exclusively for Federal government buildings but currently undergoing planning for multi-use redevelopment, provides an ideal location for this purpose. Inspired by a global caring city movement, the walk will allow you to participate in a Community Based Participatory Research Project to evaluate how spaces and places at this location can contribute to care. What does it mean to live in a city that provides for your needs and supports your well-being? How do we rethink urban geography from the perspective of both givers and receivers of care? CAWI's long-standing work advancing civic engagement for women, non-binary and gender non-conforming residents makes them the perfect hosts for this field trip. The walk will take place rain or shine. Appropriate outdoor clothing, good walking shoes, and water bottles are recommended. You will also need to bring fare for the O-Train. Please email meg@cawi-ivtf.org if you require any accommodation to participate.

Cost: $15 or pay-what-you-can (O-Train fare not included)

Limited to 20 participants

​Date: Wednesday, May 21

Duration: 3hrs (2-hour field trip, plus travel time via Ottawa’s O-Train system)

Start: 9:00am @ Carleton University Nicol Building (entrance off P2 parking lot)

End: 12:00pm @ Carleton University Nicol Building (entrance off P2 parking lot)

Join Cassie Smith, colleagues at EnviroCentre, and special guest speakers for an exciting cycling tour of the active transportation infrastructure in Ottawa’s central city area. Learn about the social, political, and historical contexts that have shaped walking and cycling in the city. Sites visited include the Rideau River active transportation bridge, NCC multi-use pathways, Hartwell Locks, Flora Footbridge, the Complete Street on Main Street, and Trillium Multi-Use Path. The tour will take place rain or shine; in the event of dangerous weather conditions, the tour will be postponed or cancelled depending on the availability of EnviroCentre staff (please note that we are unable to provide a refund if the trip needs to be rescheduled on a day when you are unable to participate; a partial refund equivalent to approximately 60% of the registration fee will be provided only if EnviroCentre is unavailable to reschedule on May 22 or 23). Appropriate outdoor clothing and water bottles are recommended. Participants will be required to wear a helmet. You will also need to bring fare for the O-Train. A block of standard and electric rental bicycles and helmets has been reserved for the group with Escape Tours. Please book yours no later than April 29 by using the promo/voucher CAGESCAPE2510 at https://escapebicycletours.ca/book-bike-tour-rental-now/.

Cost: $150 per person (O-Train fare and bike rental not included)

Limited to 20 participants (registration closes April 29)

Date: Wednesday, May 21

Duration: 3hrs 30m (2-hr bike tour, plus time for signing waiver and reaching bike rental site via Ottawa’s O-Train system)

Start: 12:45pm @ Carleton University Nicol Building (entrance off P2 parking lot)

End: 4:15pm @ Carleton University Nicol Building (entrance off P2 parking lot)

In these transformed galleries, the parallel and, at times, interrelated stories of Indigenous and Canadian art in Canada are brought together in one unforgettable display. Visitors can rediscover iconic artworks from the national collection, including recent acquisitions by artists such as A.Y. Jackson, Lawren S. Harris, George T. Berthon, Ruben Komangapik, Tim Pitsiulak, and Emily Carr, among others. Also on view is an impressive selection of objects on temporary loan: among them, stunning works by Indigenous artists. On this tour, we consider some of the iconic artworks that give voice to the artists’ visions.

Cost: $20 (O-Train fare not included)

Limited to 70 participants (in two separate groups)

​Date: Wednesday, May 21

2:00 - 4:30pm

Duration: 2hr 30m (1-hour guided tour, plus travel time via Ottawa’s O-Train system)

Start: 2pm @ Carleton University Nicol Building (entrance off P2 parking lot)

End: 4:30pm @ Carleton University Nicol Building (entrance off P2 parking lot)