NANPS Board of Directors

Board Members 2012-2013 (in alphabetical order):

Eileen Atkinson  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Eileen recently retired and is enjoying experimenting with a native plant garden at her cottage. She brought her gardening knowledge with her when she emigrated from England but gradually acquired an appreciation of Canada’s native plants and their importance to Canada’s birds and pollinators. Now she loves talking to people about native plants and helps to spread the word about the invasive aliens threatening our parks and natural areas.

Heidi Eisenhauer  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Heidi was introduced to NANPS at a Seedy Saturday. Combining her love of birds and their habitat, NANPS seemed like a natural fit. She has been working with the plant sale committee for 3 years with a focus on member orders and database management.

Heidi's background is in non-profit administration and she is a Jill of all trades, with experience in galas, web development, operations and governance. She has a certificate in urban agriculture from SLUG in San Francisco and has designed and established numerous community gardens. She is currently testing the viability of container gardening with native plants on her balcony.

Joanne Fallowfield  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

An avid gardener, Joanne has long advocated for native plants due to the immeasurable benefits they provide to our natural environment.   Her Etobicoke ravine property gives her plenty of opportunity to practise what she preaches. She is a former staff member of the Toronto Botanical Garden and has designed and installed many residential gardens.

Greg Hagan   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Greg is a professional gardener. His own garden is full of native plants, many from plant rescues. It extends out to a riverbank and a roadside planting. Greg is Past-President of NANPS.

Miriam Henriques  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Miriam, from North York, is a Past President of NANPS who has returned to the Board after her required one year sabbatical.  She is a public school teacher and she developed an extensive native plant garden at her school.  Educating people about native plants and encouraging people to join NANPS are activities Miriam enjoys.

Janice Keil  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Alice Kong  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Alice organizes the plant sale for NANPS. This is our biggest event and most important fundraiser.

Adam Mohamed  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Adam currently works for the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority and is involved in ecological engineering and stream restoration projects.  He has a background in ecological restoration and horticulture.  He has always been interested in the preservation of native plants and the elimination of invasive plants.

Paul LaPorte  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Living in the Greenbelt of the GTA, Paul LaPorte has taken the opportunity to steward and study numerous native plant communities within multiple ecotypes and varied microclimates.  Preserving, promoting and learning about the systemic relationship between flora and fauna has been a significant factor in his life. Paul maintains a strong knowledge of Ontario native plant species and their communities and fosters them in his own gardens. Paul is the President of NANPS for 2013.

Gillian Leitch  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  

Fusing her passions for nature, gardening and art, Gillian Leitch creates wild and wonderful spaces with alter eden, an ecologically accountable landscape design and construction company and alter eden apiculture, a blend of beekeeping and apitherapy.

Howard Meadd  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Howard Meadd, from Scarborough, is very knowledgeable about native plants and how to identify and cultivate them.  He is returning to the board having taken a sabbatical.  He is involved in the seed exchange and actively attends Seedy Saturdays in the GTA.  

John Oyston This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

John was brought up in an English gardening family. His main areas of interest are woody plants and things that grow in full sun.  He graduated from the University of Guelph in 2005 with an Ontario Diploma in Horticulture. That same year he purchased a 101 acre property in Northumberland County, where he planted a three acre prairie and an arboretum of over 100 native Ontario trees and shrubs. Oak Hills Farm Prairie and Arboretum won a NANPS Garden Award in 2009. John joined the NANPS Board the following year. 

Harold Smith  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Harold is returning to the Board after serving NANPS for six years in a row then taking a compulsory one year break. Welcome back!

Jenn South  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Jenn is an avid native plant enthusiast who grows them for sale in her spare time.  She is currently studying environmental science at University of Western Ontario and runs a camp from her hobby farm in the summer called "Ecokids - Connecting Kids with Nature."

Sue Stephenson 

Sue is a family doctor who lives outside of Guelph.  She is working towards a certificate in Environmental Stewardship and gardens with sustainability in mind.

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Monarch on Cup Plant (Silphium perfoliatum)
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