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Gardening the Garden State
Exploring the Diversity of New Jersey’s Community Gardens
Laura Lawson, Ph.D.Luke Drake With Arianna de Vries, Chantae Moore, Maria Torres, and Frances Turner
Department of Landscape Architecture2013
Department of Landscape ArchitectureBlake HallRutgers, The State University of New Jersey93 Lipman DriveNew Brunswick, NJ 08901848-932-9317
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West Milford Organic Community Garden - Passaic County
Early Street Community Garden - Morristown, Morris County
Riverview Park Community Garden - Jersey City, Hudson County
3rd Street Community Garden - Hoboken, Hudson County
Duke Farms Community Garden - Hillsborough, Somerset County
Garden of Hope - New Brunswick, Middlesex County
Lawrenceville Township Community Garden - Mercer County
Chestnut Ave. Community Garden - Trenton, Mercer County
Chambers/Locust St. Community Garden - Trenton, Mercer County
Westminster Presbyterian Church Community Garden - Trenton, Mercer County
E Street Community Garden - Belmar, Monmouth County
Pennington Park Community Garden - Delanco, Burlington County
Burlington County Community Agricultural Center-Moorestown, Burlington County
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West Milford
Jersey City
Hoboken
Morristown
Hillsborough
New Brunswick
Lawrenceville
Moorestown
Delanco
BelmarTrenton(3 Gardens)
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NAcross New Jersey, like much of the U.S., interest in community gardening and urban agriculture is increasing. Through such sites, people are building community while producing food and un-dertaking environmental stewardship.Little is known, however, about the comprehensive status of such activities in the state. This publication marks the first step in a state-wide assessment of community gardening and urban agricultural efforts in New Jersey. This project, called “Culture and Context of Community Gardening and Urban Agriculture in New Jersey,” is based at the De-partment of Landscape Architecture, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, and is led by Laura J. Lawson, Ph.D. The project has three goals: document the extent and practices of com-munity gardens and urban agriculture in New Jersey; identify the reasons people become engaged in these efforts; and develop a public forum to share ideas and information on community gardens and urban agriculture in New Jersey. We are using a range of mixed methods, from interviews and visual methods to geographic information systems.
For the initial phase of this study, we have identified 13 community gardens from the northern, central, and southern areas of the state. Through site plans and land use mapping, we develop ex-ploratory case studies through which to proceed with subsequent data collection. These case stud-ies highlight the diverse nature of New Jersey’s community gardens. From the design aspects of the gardening plots to the contexts of garden sites, it is evident that there is a wide range of social, spatial, and environmental characteristics of community gardening across the state.
The next step in this project will be conducting in-depth interviews with key actors in order to explain this diversity and identify those aspects that might be common throughout such efforts. Subsequently, a larger sample of community gardens and urban agriculture sites will be developed so that we may complete this systematic investigation and develop a forum to exchange knowledge between various stakeholders.
Across New Jersey, community gardens come in many shapes and sizes. Individual, family, and group gardening plots...raised beds, in-ground...
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West Milford
Jersey City
Hoboken
Morristown
Hillsborough
New Brunswick
Lawrenceville
Moorestown
Delanco
BelmarTrenton(3 Gardens)
3rd St. Community Garden Hoboken
Riverview Park Community Garden
Jersey City
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Duke Farms Community Garden
Hillsborough
Early St. Community GardenMorristown
West Milford Organic Community Garden
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SITE PLANS
Lawrenceville TownshipCommunity Garden
Chestnut Ave. Community Garden
Trenton
Westminster PresybterianCommunity Garden
Trenton
Chambers/Locust St.Community Garden
Trenton
Jardín Esperanza / Garden of HopeNew Brunswick
Pennington Park Community Garden
Delanco
E Street Magical GardenBelmar
Burlington County Community Agricultural Center
Moorestown
N75 150 feet0
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West Milford
Jersey City
Hoboken
Morristown
Hillsborough
New Brunswick
Lawrenceville
Moorestown
Delanco
BelmarTrenton(3 Gardens)
Diversity of geographical contexts, as evident in the following land use maps surrounding the community gardens.
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Morristown West Milford
Hillsborough LawrencevilleTrenton
Delanco Moorestown
Belmar
New Brunswick
Hoboken and Jersey City
Commerical/Mixed UseMulti-family ResidenceSingle-family ResidenceInstitutionalAgriculturalOpen Space/ParksForestWaterWetlandsIndustrialVacant
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Garden Location