New Gardeners Invited to Join Community Garden

If you yearn to be a gardener, but lack the space or confidence in your green thumb, consider renting a plot at the East Brunswick Community Garden for 2019.

A limited number of plots for new gardeners are now available for the 2019 growing season for township residents and local employees who may lack the space, proper sunlight or soil to grow produce and flowers at home.

Located adjacent to the Municipal Complex on Rues Lane, the popular garden has 10 x 10-foot plots available to new gardeners on a first-come, first-served basis for $45 for the first season. Returning gardeners pay $10 this year.

All gardeners are required to put in four hours of community garden service each year by working with a committee and participating in work days, or paying $40 in lieu of service. Gardeners can select from a list of committees found on the registration form.

For more information and to register for a plot, go online to the East Brunswick Community Garden.

The garden’s website offers timely articles, tips and tricks for gardeners, a calendar of events and information on donating surplus produce. Gardeners have donated more than a ton of surplus produce in the last few years. Meetings and events during the year also give gardeners a chance to share ideas outside the garden.

Established in 2009, the garden offers 160 plots for new and returning gardeners who live or work in East Brunswick. New fencing erected by the Friends of the East Brunswick Environmental Commission and the township now protects the area from deer and other critters. For more information, send email to ebcgarden@gmail.com.

The East Brunswick Community Garden is a project of the Friends of the East Brunswick Environmental Commission, a 501c3 not-for-profit organization.