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COVID-19 Updates

Although we have had to temporarily close our Outdoor Learning Center in response to COVID-19, we are able to continue some of our programs and have implemented some new ones in our mission to serve the Newark community.

Our Response
Garden with Miss Sarah

Join Miss Sarah as she shows you how to plant healthy greens in a container garden.

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Fighting Food Insecurity

We are proud to be one of five organizations who have joined forces to bring nutritious and healthy food to the tables of more than 1,200 Newark seniors.

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We're Giving Away Seeds!

Thanks to the generosity of local seed companies, we are able to offer free seeds to our Plot It Fresh farmers and Newark-based community and home gardeners.

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Mission

Greater Newark Conservancy promotes environmental stewardship to improve the quality of life in New Jersey’s urban communities.

We achieve our mission through our inter-related program areas: Environmental Education, Community Greening & Urban Agriculture, Environmental Justice Advocacy, and Job Training. We invite you to peruse the website to learn more about all our programs, what we do, and how you can get involved!

Learn something new.

Greater Newark Conservancy offers hands-on, inquiry based environmentally themed programs. The Conservancy’s professional staff is a partner in educating your students.

Emergency Food Distribution

Each week during the COVID-19 crisis, Greater Newark Conservancy and partner organizations including CareSparc Consulting, Table to Table, and Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District, distribute fresh produce to over 1300 Newark seniors and families.

Visit Our Center.

We’re very proud that the opening of our Judith L. Shipley Urban Environmental Center in 2004 marked the very first appearance of an urban environmental center in New Jersey.

News

April 9, 2020

Cooperative Brings Food to the Table for more than 1,200 Newark Seniors

byMichele Robinson

Greater Newark Conservancy joins with four community partners to create an emergency response to food insecurity for Newark seniors during the pandemic.

February 10, 2020

A Garden Grows in Newark—and a Community Grows Around It

byJeff Turrentine of the Natural Resources Defense Council

On a gray and chilly late-January day at the Hawthorne Avenue Farm in Newark, New Jersey, there isn’t much greenery in sight. But in just a few months’ time, everything will look very different. Tomato and cucumber vines will stretch and curl around the hoop house frame. The trees will flower and then teem with peaches, pears, plums, apples, and two different types of cherries.

January 31, 2020

Our New Board Members

byMarisa Lunde

January is for new beginnings, and we’re happy to welcome these three outstanding community members to our Board of Trustees. We're energized to watch them propel the Conservancy to new heights!

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