Organic Community Gardens
2024 is going to be an exciting year at both the Apple Acres and Wallisch Community Gardens. We wish the gardens to be fun, creative and uplifting; a place where people meet, get to know one another in the course of fruitful work, learn together, support the health of the garden together, provide a plenteous harvest of delicious, healthy food, and benefits the community by sharing our extra harvest and holding public education events like lectures on gardening and food subjects, and garden and farm tours.
The Apple Acres Garden is located at 1064 Union Valley Road, West Milford.
The Wallisch Homestead Garden is located at 65 Lincoln Avenue, West Milford.
Join the Community Gardens of WM
As we begin our 2024 season, we are looking for new members to enjoy and support our amazing gardens. Are you an experienced gardener looking for a community of gardeners, or a novice looking to get started? Would you like to have a vegetable garden but lack space or a sunny spot? The West Milford Organic Community Garden has plots available and sharing opportunities at both of our gardens locations for 2024. Dues for the season are $40 for one 8x8 plot, $80 for two/double plot. Our gardens are located at Apple Acres on Union Valley Road and the Wallisch Homestead on Lincoln Avenue.
Our community gardens use only organic practices, no synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, or treated seeds. We strive to work in harmony with the environment to produce the most mutually fruitful results. The gardens comprise a cooperative effort where experienced veterans and enthusiastic new gardeners work together to share knowledge and solve problems and ensure that members have the most fun and fruitful gardening season possible, with all possible benefits to the community.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS! - Join us at the West Milford Library on March 14th from 7p-9:00 pm to sign up for a plot, and learn the do’s and don’ts of organic gardening from Barbara & Mark Laino of Midsummer Farms in Warwick.
For more information, to get on our list, or to secure your plot, email us at cgb2673@optonline.net for the Wallisch Homestead garden, or aagardeninfo@gmail.com for the Apple Acres garden.
We are a member of and supported by the Dig In! Community Garden Network a program funded by the Passaic County Board of County Commissioners
GARDEN UPDATES
Sustainable West Milford Organic Community Garden at Apple Acres
To date, hundreds of residents have learned organic gardening at Apple Acres and have applied their learning with own gardens at home. Each year more than 35 families grow and share their own organic food and come together as a supportive, sharing, learning community. We look forward to continuing and expanding upon this heritage in this new season growing food together and sharing our boon with those in need.
Sustainable West Milford Organic Community Garden at The Wallisch Homestead
The Wallisch Community garden has been very bountiful indeed. The working windmill that pumps our water seems to take you back in time to the days when the pace was slower and things were simpler. While this garden is on public property, it is watched over and supported by the wonderful community that stewards this historical site. This year, our community gardeners will become official ‘members’ of the Friends of Wallisch community connecting them to all of the wonderful events and gatherings happening on the property.
