Central NJ: The Grange Wants to Start a Community Garden

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Attn ACGA Board, ED and NJ Community Gardeners:

 This is an interesting synergy for us if we can manage it. The Grange wants 
to start a community garden in New Jersey. If the ACGA can do cooperative 
projects with the Grange, in terms of sharing our CG experience with them and 
hooking up with the remaining Granges in the USA and Canada, it might be a 
beneficial boost for both of our organizations. Read the article below and contact 
the Grange at (732) 901-8777. 

Everbest, 
Adam Honigman
Volunteer, 
http://www.clintoncommunitygarden.org/

Grange to seek approval for community garden 
BY KATHY BARATTA
Staff Writer
Tri-Town News
Serving Howell, Lakeview, Jackson & Plumsted NJ. 

HOWELL - Representatives of the Southard Grange are hoping that municipal 
officials will allow the collective to produce a community garden on a section of 
township-owned land. 

Grange Master Elaine Taylor is an organic farmer who lives on Maxim-Southard 
Road. 

Taylor, who is a member of the Howell Board of Education, said the community 
garden project is only one of several ambitions the members of Southard Grange 
No. 218 will work to see accomplished. 

In an interview with the Tri-Town News, Taylor said she was planning to ask 
the Township Council on Dec. 14 to allow the Grange to take over 15 of about 31 
acres that comprise the Price Farm at the corner of Maxim-Southard Road and 
Locust Avenue. 

Taylor said the Grange is proposing to take the 15 acres and turn it into a 
community garden that would beautify the land and work to involve residents in 
a true community effort that would reap a bountiful harvest of beauty and 
communal spirit. 

In a press release, the Grange states that its goal "is to help promote an 
awareness of New Jersey's natural heritage through agricultural education, land 
conservation and community activities." 

Taylor said there would be an open invitation to any member of the public who 
wants to plant a garden on the tract. She said it would be a perfect 
opportunity for a person who lives in a condominium or an apartment who wants a little 
plot of ground on which he can grow flowers, vegetables or herbs. 

She said those who join will be able to sow a plot at the community garden, 
attend informative workshops and get involved in other farm- and garden-related 
activities. 

Also, according to Taylor, there is a historical structure on the property 
that the Grange would like to take over. She said if they were allowed to, the 
Grange's 50 or so members and other volunteers would work to rehabilitate the 
structure. 

She said the property on which the Grange wants to produce its community 
garden would also provide opportunities for hiking, bird watching and photography. 

Taylor said membership is open to all ages, families and groups interested in 
"America's No. 1 recreational activity - gardening." For more information 
call (732) 901-8777. 

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