How green does your garden grow? Create your own farmer's market at home... Pat Kenschaft, Baristaville's garden queen, tipped us off about today's organic garden tour:
Saturday, July 19, from 9 a.m. to noon, the Cornucopia Network of New Jersey will host an Open Garden tour of organic vegetable gardens. Mine at 56 Gordonhurst Ave. will be the host garden with displays in the front yard, providing congenial interesting conversations.I have raised almost all my family’s vegetables for decades. Over the past year I have harvested over 50 edibles in my back yard, including some fruit. I will provide half-hour continuing tours, or you can wander alone if you walk only on the green grass.
Several other open gardens are in easy walking distance of 56 Gordonhurst Ave...
Bob McLean at 51 Gordonhurst Ave. has gardened for decades and now has a rain garden.Denise Barth at 4 Aubrey Road uses a strip between her driveway and the neighbor’s fence to raise an abundance of vegetables.
Renee Baker on the southeast corner of Grove Street and Beverly Road gardens on the Grove Street side of the house, discretely hidden behind flowers and shrubs.
Nick Domini at 11 Bruce Road has a second-year garden and a grape pergola loaded with grapes. He uses half of his yard for a Zen garden, thus blending East and West.
Judy Hinds at 156 Rhoda Ave., Nutley, does "square food gardening," raising many vegetables intensively.
In the Garden State, raising vegetables is easy and fun. It promotes health, mitigates climate change, and promotes U.S. energy independence.
Come see how it’s done.
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Be sure to admire the new Belgian Block Curbs while you are there.