Nipissing Botanical Gardens, a committee of the Heritage Gardeners, exists to identify, preserve, and create greenspaces, natural and cultivated, within the City of North Bay. Heritage Gardeners partnered with several organizations including North Bay-Mattawa Conservation Authority, Nipissing University, Canadore College and other volunteers in 2004 and city council passed a resolution supporting the concept that same year.
In 2006 a tree nursery consisting of 6000 shrubs and 400 trees was planted along the Kinsmen Trail by two Heritage Gardener teams; The Outlanders and the Green Berets. These trees and shrubs will be the undergrowth in Community Waterfront Park and will be transplanted in 2010-11. This was the first site that was identified by Nipissing Botanical Gardens as a significant greenspace. 