Organic Community Garden
at Apple Acres
Garden News
Planning is under way for the Organic Community Garden in 2012!
1) A small group of gardeners will be
working together as a community within the community to do 'monoculture'
gardening this year and share what they grow between them. There are 6-8 garden
plots involved, and each plot will have one crop or type of crop (i.e.
lettuces). Each member of the 'group' will be responsible to grow just that one
crop for the season and the group will share the harvest from all plots
together. This will allows each of us to gain a deep expertise of a plant and
what works and doesn't work throughout the growing season, and still share in
what is grown by the whole group. It will take a high level of communication and
coordination to make it work, and we are excited to give it a try. This smaller
group will be meeting in January to plan out our approach and membership for
2012. Based on how our experiment and learnings go, we may expand the approach
to more gardeners in 2013.
2) We are looking for a communications
coordinator to work with our Garden Director this year. This person's job is to
help coordinate educational speakers and press releases for our quarterly
education sessions at Hillcrest, provide a written update on what is happening
in the garden for the SWM monthly newsletter (1-2 paragraphs), and work with the
the garden director and 2012 written schedule to get any other critical
communications out to the group (i.e. disease alert, reminder of work days,
etc.). Best candidates are current (or future!) members of the garden or Ample
Harvest West Milford program since you'll be close to the action during the
season! Are you the one?
If either of these is of interest to you, please email Wendy or call her at 973-853-2123.
