Gardening: A walk in Forestry Farm Park is a trip through history

When you take a walk through the Saskatoon Forestry Farm Park, you follow in the footsteps of James McLean, John Whiteman, Les Kerr and Kate Husky, who lived and worked there when it was the Sutherland Forest Nursery Station.
The Nursery began in 1913, and during its 50-some years of existence, distributed free trees to prairie farmers for field shelterbelts and homesteads. The central parking area and its surrounding buildings and grounds would have been a hive of activity, especially in fall w