A number of tree seedlings are offered each year by the SaskPower Shand Greenhouse. It uses some of the waste heat from the Shand Power Station to grow tree and shrub seedlings. As more than 10 million shrubs and trees have been cultivated there since 1992.

Joel Cherry with the SaskPower Greenhouse, "The Shand Greenhouse was established at the power station there as a subsidiary of the company in 1991. So its been around for a pretty good amount of time now. It was a voluntary way to help demonstrate the companies commitment to the environment primarily. We use waste generated by the Shand power station to grow almost half a million trees, shrubs, and native plants each year. Doing this we promote land conservation, reclamation of land, and creation of a habitat for wildlife. Specifically, it's used to help mitigate carbon dioxide emissions, it is a coal fire plant. And getting millions of trees out over the years can sequester the carbon emissions and generally having the shand greenhouse there is helping to expand awareness and understanding of the importance of trees to our environment. And Saskpowers commitment to the environment as well. The greenhouse is there and its open to the public, during the week anyway"

The Greenhouse has a Seedling project that has been in the works for over 25 years, "This year we only took applications for new seedlings until February 1st, so we have time to get them ready for the spring. So that is out of stock for now. We will be accepting orders for the spring of 2020, in May of 2019."

Cherry, on the demand for the seedlings and who they accept through the application project, "I know there is certainly a lot of interest as the tree farm out by Indian Head shut down a couple of years ago. So for people who are putting in shelterbelts on their property, for example, this is an option for them. Its only available for people or organizations with 10 acres or more. These trees are not being given away for just aesthetics if you want a tree next to your house for example. We want to make sure there is a focus on conservation and so trees we give away to not-for-profit groups such as service clubs and conservation agencies as well to have for individual use or shelter belts for wildlife habitats. There is always interest in it for sure."

"You can get tours of the facility, and we have open houses every other year. But there are opportunities for the public to see what we're doing there, one of the pillars of our company is to bring awareness."