Our Team Activities

• Install Garden at Heritage Park
• Remove invasive plants
• Tree Plantings
• Local road clean ups (Adopt A Road)
• Water bottle filling stations (1 @ Heritage Park, 1 @ Pitney Park)
• Community Garden (@ Pitney Park)
• Farm market with Go Green Galloway (GGG)
• Help GGG with Glenn By the Bay at Veterans Memorial Park (video)
• Friends Along the Mullica (with Go Green Galloway)
• Sustainable Jersey participant
• Outreach with Absecon schools

Invasive Plant Cleanup:

• Nonnative plants:
  • alter soil chemistry
  • block sunlight to native plants
  • compete for space with native plants
  • can weigh down and choke native trees
  • Examples of nonnative plants here
  • Check out this very informative video: Twelve Tenacious Invasive Plants (and companion brochure with native alternatives for southern New Jersey)

What about native plants?

• Native Plant Society of NJ!
• The US alone grows more than 100 crops that either need or gain from pollinators. The economic value of these native pollinators is estimated at $3 billion per year.
  • Xerxes Society (here too)
  • Butterfly host plants for south Jersey landscapes
  • Best pollinator plants for southern New Jersey

More information coming soon!

More information coming soon!