Fresh Eggs at the Market
Sparrow Lake Farms in Monroeville, NJ brings fresh eggs, produce and pasture raised chicken to Merchantville's weekly Market Off Centre. They offer customers fresh herbs,...
Week 4: Jack’s Beanstalks
Here's a video update on how the three bean varieties and the pollinator garden along the Wellwood Park tennis courts are progressing after the first month. Several of...
Teach Food Growing Early
If you are lucky - like Merchantville - you have farmer's markets in your area. But that can get very expensive and take time -...
Grow Mushrooms in your Grounds
Mother Earth News shares a great article on how you can simply recycle your own grounds and expect to produce a few pounds of...
MES Sprouts learn about IE
Yesterday, Merchantville School's Dina Turan and her Garden Club third grade 'Sprouts' planted a sensory pollinator garden at the Community Center Garden with Incredible...
Native Plant Sale
Wild Roots New Jersey is a resource and pop-up shop for people who care about environmental sustainability. They write about gardening with native plants, sustainability...
Market Off Centre Opens
Only one more day until the start of a new Merchantville Market Off Centre season. Who’s excited? Here are our farms: Katt Paradise Farm, our longest tenured...
Recycle Plant Pots
Don’t just throw away those plastic pots your plants came in. Here are our favorite ways to reuse and recycle plant pots. Plant halo: Take...
Sustainable
"Sustainable", a narrative documentary film focusing on Marty Travis, a seventh-generation farmer in central Illinois who watched his land and community fall victim to the pressures...
Beans are sprouting
Jack’s Beanstalk and pollinator garden is growing! Provider green beans, frijol-rojo-de-seda red silk beans and golden-rocky-beans were planted along the brick border wall at the Wellwood Park tennis courts on...










































