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Clean Up Dates 2024

Save the date...

Spring: Saturday, April 13th 9:30am or 

Sunday, May 4th 11:00 am 

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Fall: Saturday, October 26th 9:30 am or Sunday, November 3rd 11:00 am

Past Presentations

Feel free to revisit past learning sessions

Honeycomb

Honeybees and managing bee hives

Gretchen Probst Speaker

 Presentation by Gold Award Gretchen Probst on managing honeybees

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Square Foot Gardening

Guest Speaker Master Gardener Althea Llewellyn

Learn the basics on Square Foot Gardening Techniques from an expert!

Black Soil

Keys to Successful Composting

Rutgers Agricultural Experimental Station

How to create your own super enriched compost soil.

Ladybug

Managing garden pests organically

Madeline Flahive DiNardo Assoc Professor and Union County Agent

Learn from an expert techniques for managing garden pests organically

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Children's Garden

Pavni Bhardwaj

Speaker

Presentation by Girl Scout Gold Award Candidate on Gardening with Children and the construction of the Children's Garden 

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Union County Master Gardeners' Hotline    

(908) 654-9852

mastergardeners@ucnj.org

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The Master Gardeners of Union County are an effective resource and a wealth of knowledge. Call or email the Hotline to get information on gardening issues. Check the links below to explore a wide variety of topics on gardening prepared by experts.

Garden Committees

Helping to Make a Difference

The Community Garden thrives only with contributions from our members. Each Gardener selects one or more committees to participate in each year. We try to fit gardeners to their first choice. Here are a list of the current committees and positions. Selections are made each March.

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New committees can be created based upon gardener interest!

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Garden Committee

These individuals help to coordinate the general maintenance and supervision of the Garden to assure adherence to the guidelines set forth by the Environmental Commission. The Garden Committee meets the first Wednesday of each month.

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Members are:

  • Maureen Aronow (Treasurer)

  • Steve Greguske

  • Steve Martin and

  • Renee Ciesla (Environmental Commission Representative)

Single Person Committees

  • Treasurer: Oversight of budget and spending. Main liaison with the Town on all financial matters.

  • Critter Control: Ongoing maintenance of critter boundary and fence around the garden.  

  • Mulch Coordinator: Orders mulch from town for delivery, coordinates cardboard donations

  • Garden Communication Coordinator: takes minutes from monthly meetings and sends out short notes to gardeners on updates

  • Spring/Fall Clean Up Coordinator: set dates for clean ups, send out sign-up genius

  • Website Coordinator: Content management and maintenance of the garden website

  • Press Writer/Content Creator: Write articles or content for the garden website

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Garden Committees

  • Composting: maintain the three compost piles. 

  • Donation Garden: Planting, maintaining and donating produce from our donation bed. Coordinates with other non-profit groups that are participating in the garden.

  • Honeybees: maintains the honeybees at the garden.

  • Pollinator: plant, maintain and water flowers and plants throughout the garden to attract more bees and butterflies.

  • Sprinkler: manage sprinkler system including turning the system on and off and coordinates billing with Treasurer.

  • Luminary: Any and all gardeners willing to be a street captain during the Rotary Luminary are invited to participate. Sale is in Nov/Dec.

  • Children's Garden: Development of Children's Garden for our garden.

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