Crows Woods expands for more bountiful harvest.
Gardeners arrived an hour or so after the sun had risen on Saturday, carrying garden tools, seed packets, and seedlings. Some had their dogs. Some brought toddlers who played in the dirt. Some brought teens to help who, like teens everywhere, got whiny after an hour or two. The smart ones wore hats and gloves. The newbies didn’t, but would for their second visit to Crows Woods, Haddonfield’s expanded community garden off Upland Way, near the playhouse of Haddonfield Plays and Players. In existence for 30 years, the garden plots provide a bounty of produce, flowers and neighborly interchange. An expansion project this year erased the waiting list for tenants for the plots, some full-sized at 20 by 20 feet, others half that sized. Paul …
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Community garden has a plentiful harvest of food and friends.
They persisted when it seemed the rain would never stop in April. They endured when the heat blasted them in June and July and most of August. Then they stayed home during drenching rainfalls in the last few weeks. Now it’s a September tinted by Claude Monet, when the color of the zinnias and sunflowers jumps at you, when bees and beetles and butterflies are swarming. What better time for lease-holders of garden plots at Crows Woods to walk away briefly from the never-ending task of weeding and dead-heading, of cutting back stalks now turning yellow at summer’s end? So, a few hours before sunset on Sunday, they met for a food feast, to talk about even more ways to cook zucchini and Swiss chard and about composting machines. A secondary …
Bill Duhart
11:08 am on Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Hey Terry! Thanks for the quick response... One more question... can you please also include your last name with your blog? And please, keep blogging... This is great info! more ›