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Fair Lawn Community Garden Committee
The Fair Lawn Community Garden Committee was organized with a mission to enhance residents' quality of life and to encourage and educate children, family and friends to understand good land management and ways to make choices for a healthy lifestyle. With a sunny location and proximity to apartments, Sampson Park on Sampson Road has been chosen as an ideal location for Fair Lawn’s Community Garden giving those residents the ability to tend a garden of their own or to donate fresh produce to those in need.
Questions for the Community Garden Committee, email communitygarden@fairlawn.org or call the Borough at 201-794-5340.
The Fair Lawn Borough Garden Committee (FLBGC) is a volunteer committee that plants and maintains gardens in public spaces around the Borough. We are appointed by the Council and meet formally four times a year. We garden April through November, weather permitting. The FLBGC was formed in 1998. There is no limit to the number of members; to join please contact the Borough Clerk, 201-794-5340.
Our members range in age from 17 to 75+. We welcome high school students looking to do community service. Experience is not necessary, but a willingness to get dirty is.
To date, we have planted spaces at:
Because the Garden Committee is not tax-exempt, donations are NOT tax deductible; however, donations of any kind will be responded to with a thank you card. Please make donations payable to the Fair Lawn Garden Association (FLGA). Donations to the FLGA are great for holiday gifts and are very much appreciated. All money is spent on beautifying Fair Lawn.
The FLBGC has received several awards from the Borough and well as the county for beautification and volunteerism. We are very proud of what we do, and have a great group of volunteers.
All members must attend a minimum of 3 meetings and outdoor clean-ups, etc., a year. We meet at the Municipal Building at least four times per year. The room location is to be announced. Meetings times are alternated to accommodate the members.
The FLBGC now has a home - the sunny yellow shipping container at the Recycling Center. If you have garden tools and clay pots to donate please contact us - we now have a place to store them.
Ground breaking ceremonies for the World Trade Center Memorial Garden took place on Sunday, September 11, 2005. The Mayor and Council, Police Chaplain, Borough Manager, and the Garden Committee Chairperson all spoke at the site that will be dedicated to the three Fair Lawn residents who died on that day - Susan Huie, Richard Rosenthal, and Jennifer Lynn Kane. An additional plaque in remembrance of Fair Lawn resident Frank Connor, who died in a terrorist bombing at Fraunces Tavern in New York City in 1975 will be included in the memorial. Representatives of the Garden Committee were present at the ceremonies.
Some of our recent work:
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A resident visiting the Fair Lawn Farmer's Market on Fair Lawn Avenue. |
Not only do we plant, but prune, weed, and water as well. Experience is not necessary, and some join to learn about planting and maintenance. If you would like to become a member call the Borough Clerk's office, 201-794-5340.
If you would like to donate plants from an overgrown garden or a landscaping update, please call Martha, 201-796-8369. We cannot take large shrubs as conifers with deep root systems; azaleas and rhododendrons are usually good. Perennials are always welcome.
If you any gardening questions you would like us to answer, please contact us.
his page last updated on 4/17/09.
