Newark Community Garden Guide – Newark Community Food System

Garden / Urban Farm	Contact Person	Type of Green Space
Garden of Hope 3-7 Fairmount Ave. The People’s Garden 86 Garside St. A.S.H.E. Farmer’s Market & Café 8-12 3rd St.	Tobias A. Fox 646.399.0337 Tobiasfox1@gmail	Identifies itself as a community garden. Doesn’t assign or lease plots. Operates a CSA. Uses land through Newark’s Adopt-A-Lot Program. Hosts various community events. Recently purchased 3-5 & 7 Fairmount Ave & 8-12 3rd St. from City and redeveloping these properties.
Lincoln Park Community Garden 46 W. Kinney St.	Joni Wellness joniwellness@gmail.com 201.207.4448 Ted Lawson 646.407.0744 tl1@nyu.edu	Identifies itself as a community garden with multiple plot allotments occupied by individual gardeners and three non-profit organizations. Hosts various community events and volunteer days. Affiliated with LPCCD.
Kinney Community Garden 279 W. Kinney St.	Barbara Weiland 862.444.9148 bweiland74@gmail.com	Identifies itself as a community garden. Doesn’t assign or lease plots. Hosts various educational learning activities and community events. Uses land through Newark’s Adopt-A-Lot Program. Pursuing opportunity to purchase land from City.
Down Bottom Farms 377-385 Ferry St. Ironbound Community Corporation (ICC)	Carena Miles 540.429.4775 carena.miles@icloud.com	Identifies itself as an urban farm. Doesn’t assign or lease plots. Runs a Farmer’s Market and hosts various community events. Uses privately owned property.
SWAG Project Farms 343 Meeker Ave and 438-440 Peshine Ave	Emilio Panasci 908.208.7244 epanasci@gmail.com	Identifies itself as an urban farm. Doesn’t assign or lease plots. Organizes Farmer’s Markets & Farm Stands throughout Newark and East Orange. Uses both privately owned property and property through Newark’s Adopt-ALot Program.
Giving 1/10th Garden 715-717 So. 20th St.	Charmaine la Fortune 917.301.7501 cllafortune@gmail.com	Identifies itself as a community garden. Doesn’t assign or lease plots. Uses land through Newark’s Adopt-A-Lot Program. Hosts various community events. Pursuing opportunity to purchase land from City.
Rabbit Hole Farms 36-38 Rose Terrace	Keven Porter 347.617.9488 rabbit.hole.farm@gmail.com	Identifies itself as an urban farm. Doesn’t assign or lease plots. Sells a variety of herbs through Farmer’s Markets. Uses land through Newark’s Adopt-A-Lot Program. Hosts various community events.
Heart of Vailsburg (HOV) Healthy Havens: Eighteen Haven 1068 18th Ave	Sabrina Ross sross@uvso.org 862.227.3022	Identifies itself as a community garden. Doesn’t assign or lease plots. Runs a Farm Stand. Uses land through Newark’s Adopt-A-Lot Program. Hosts various community events.
Late Bloomer Project 48 Columbia Ave	Sabrina Ross sross@uvso.org 862.227.3022	Identifies itself as an educational farm. Doesn’t assign or lease plots. Uses land through Newark’s Adopt-A-Lot Program. Hosts various learning activities and community events.
Beth Greenhouse Farm (Corner of Lehigh Avenue and Osbourne Terrace)	Lorraine Gibbons (Beth Israel Medical Center) lorraine.gsuf@gmail.com 973.855.3894	Identifies itself as a hydroponic (soilless) farm. Is a facility managed by the Beth Israel Medical Center. Hosts community events.
Morning Glory Garden for Change 177-181 Sherman Ave.	Corinna Sharrief morningglorygardenforchange@gmail.com 862.276.1568 Muneerah Gilkerson mgilkerson70@icloud.com 571.420.6381	Identifies itself as a community garden. Has multiple gardeners assigned to plots. Hosts various educational learning activities and community events. Uses land through Newark’s Adopt-A-Lot Program. Pursuing opportunity to purchase land from City.
The Zubi Garden 179 So. 10th St.	Ijeoma Ukenta Greengardenbunches@yahoo.com 973.818.3375	Identifies itself as a community garden with dreams of scaling up to becoming an urban farm. Provides educational resources on all things green and a free, healthy, organic non-GMO produce source for Newark residents. Doesn’t assign or lease plots. Uses land through Newark’s Adopt-A-Lot Program. Hosts various community events. Pursuing opportunity to purchase land from City.
Grow a Garden, Grow Yourself 215 Lehigh Ave	Dena Corbin naturalground1.360@gmail.com 201.532.9650	Identifies itself as a wellness garden with a specialization in herbs. Doesn’t assign or lease plots. Uses the backyard of her house. Hosts community events.
Garden of Life 909 So. 18th St.	South 17th and 18th Streets Neighborhood Association Patricia Cobb Latham pcobblatham23@gmail.com 862.588.8570	Identifies itself as a community garden.
Branch Brook Park Children’s Garden	Marissa Staffen (4H) mblodnik@njaes.rutgers.edu	This garden is a collaboration between Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Essex County: 4-H youth and the Master Gardeners, American Heart Association, local youth and families, and Essex County.