The September Meeting of the Ewing Community Gardens will be held this Wednesday from 6:30 – 8 p.m. at the Gardens on Whitehead Road Extension. An election will be held to determine the garden leadership for the next gardening season. All 2013 plotholders are eligble to vote. Please come and help determine the future of Ewing’s community of gardeners.
Rain Location: Ewing Senior and Community Center
Please be sure to mark your calendars to attend the next monthly meeting of the Ewing Community Gardens on May 15th at the ESCC from 7 – 9 p.m. Mercer County Horticulturalist Barbara J. Bromley is our featured speaker! She will discuss soil and other related topics that will help gardeners to be successful at a community garden. She will, of course, answer any questions from the floor that come up.
For those of you who have heard Barbara speak, you know that she is a delightfully entertaining and informative lecturer. For those of you who have not, you are in for a real treat! She has been the Mercer County Horticulturalist for many years and she established and trained the Mercer County Master Gardeners. She has been a featured speaker throughout the state.
Date: May 15th
Time: 7 – 9 p.m
Location: Ewing Senior and Community Center, ESCC, Community Room
This is a wonderful opportunity to learn from an expert so be sure to plan to attend.
Saturday, March 23rd promises to be a busy day for environmental causes in Ewing. The day starts out early with the Ewing Community Gardens Cleanup at Whitehead Road Extension. At midday, the Ewing Green Team will co-host the Living Local Expo with Sustainable Lawrence, the Hopewell Valley Green Team and the Mercer County Office of Economic Development and Sustainability, a green fair at Lawrence High School Commons. We will top it off in the evening with participation in Earth Hour where individuals and communities around the globe turn off their lights from 8:30 – 9:30 p.m. as a symbolic gesture of support for planet.
Township staff has been hard at work this week preparing the community gardens for the spring gardening season. The expansion of the gardens has begun and the amount of land available for gardeners will be almost doubled. [Don’t forget to sign up for a plot ASAP to ensure that you get one.] Truckloads of wood chips have been delivered to the site for use on the site paths, courtesy of Mercer County and Britton Industries. Township staff is also busy preparing to install the new water line and outlining the site fencing.
On Saturday the gardeners will be joined by a cohort of young volunteers from the College of New Jerey for the spring site clean up. The cleanup will run from 8 – 4 and cleanup from last year will be undertaken along with setting out and mulching the paths for the coming season. All gardeners are invited. Be sure to wear sturdy and washable footwear. [The geese have visited!]
The 6th Annual Living Local Expo, organized by Sustainable Lawrence in partnership with the green teams from Lawrence, Ewing, Hopewell, and the Mercer County Office of Economic Development and Sustainability, will run from noon until 4 p.m. at the Commons at Lawrence High School. It will feature hands-on workshops, displays from 40-plus local businesses and non-profits, and the “Ask your Neighbor” table where visitors can hear how homeowners and businesses completed successful energy-efficient projects. Speakers will discuss a variety of sustainability issues ranging from local farms, school gardening & projects, to the future of transportation and recycling in Mercer County, and more. It promises to be an exceptional event.
Admission is free.
March 23rd is also the date that the world unites to take a stand against climate change. Earth Hour is a global movement that endeavors to unite people around the world in making a commitment to save the planet. It has been held annually at the end of March since 2007. Its goal is to unite communities from across the world celebrating a commitment to the planet by switching off lights for one designated hour wherever you are in the world. Turning of the lights is the symbolic gesture. Organizers ask individuals, communities, schools, businesses and governments to couple that with pledges of positive actions toward a sustainable future.
What green initiatives can you undertake as part of your stand against climate change?
The next meeting of the Ewing Community Gardens will be on February 20th at the Ewing Senior and Community Center from 7 – 9 p.m.
Updates on the status of the Whitehead Road Extension site will be given and planning for spring gardens for new gardeners will begin.
All are welcome.
Spring will be here before you know it and it’s not too early to plan for the 2013 Ewing Community Gardens at Whitehead Road Extension. At the top of the agenda is suggesting guidelines for management of the site to the Township for approval. These rules will provide guidelines for proper gardening etiquette for the site and detail exactly what is expected from all gardeners.
Suggested rules from the American Community Gardening Association have been incorporated into a survey posted on our new Survey page. All participants should first complete the survey . This will enable us to tabulate suggestions and discover important issues from prior plot holders and propose any solutions needed. Previous plot holders are welcome and their feedback would be greatly valued.
All are welcome.
Sustainable Ewing Green Team 