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We're Gearing Up for Spring!

Students, parents and community members! Join the Highland Park Edible School Gardens Project and help grow food at the schools. Our first year was phenomenal. We want to try and grow even more this year. And if you help grow the food, you get to eat some of it! Yum!!!

EGP is now part of Neighborhood University!

EGP has inspired the creation of a new initiative that incorporates community education with a barter/gift economy. Check out NeighborhoodUniversity.org to learn more.

NJ Farm to School Workshop

The Highland Park Edible School Gardens were one of the featured school garden projects during a recent NJ Farm to School workshop held at Metuchen High School.

Student Garden Corps

In October, the HP Edible School Gardens project recognized the students who participated in the Student Garden Corps this year with a luncheon, where they received their volunteer stipends, certificates of appreciation, and T-shirts. Pre-K teacher Vicky Zarra was on hand and received a T-shirt and Farmers' Almanac calendar as tokens of the project's appreciation for her involvement and support of the project. We look forward to another year and hope to gain more student, teacher and community involvement in growing our school gardens.

Well-Fed Neighbor Alliance

The Short List of What We All Can Do

EGP & Metuchen Garden Club Cosponsor "Catch Garden Fever"

On Wed, May 12, 7-9 pm, approximately 30 people from Metuchen, Edison, Woodbridge, and Highland Park attended an informational meeting in Metuchen, to share our successes in Highland Park and discuss how to start garden projects at schools, libraries, and other places in town.

Archived Updates


Identify and Avoid GMO Foods



The Edible Gardens Project (The Edibles, for short) is a community effort to bring together both new gardeners and those who have been gardening and have a lot of knowledge to improve local food security by helping each other and members of the community build gardens.

Take the 100-Mile Diet Pledge!

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GARDEN PLANNING SCHEDULE

Pat Kenschaft lays out exactly what you need to do for each month.

HARVEST SCHEDULE

NJ Dept. of Agriculture Jersey Fresh Harvest Dates

Edible Garden Project Partners


  • Farmers Solidarity Project
  • Trinity United Methodist
        Church
  • The Reformed Church of
       Highland Park
  • Lazos America Unida
  • Highland Park Library Green Teens
  • St. Paul's Church
  • Highland Park Food Pantry

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