Garden Club                                                                                           

 

In 2005, with Board President Charles Blood as the project coordinator, NJBCA started an ambitious garden project and garden club with the goal of transforming a small open patch of land on our grounds into a flourishing vegetable and herb garden.  Featuring raised beds, our garden is more easily accessible to the blind than a traditionally flat plot.

 

Shortly after the project was launched, the Garden Club RFD at Middletown joined in on the effort.  Founding members Ruth Korn and Bernice Berger spend hundreds of hours each year sharing their expertise with our blind/visually impaired clients and planting and maintaining the garden.  Gardeners use their senses of touch and smell to plant crops with appropriate spacing, trim weeds and plants as needed, and identify when vegetables are ripe for the picking.

 

Not only do clients learn new skills that enrich their lives, they also enrich their diet as herbs, tomatoes, lettuce, eggplant, pumpkins and many other garden delicacies are used in our camp kitchen to help provide free, nutritious meals each week.

 

The Garden Club also provides regular educational field trips to help turn our client’s thumbs green while engaging them in one of the most popular hobbies in the world.  Club outings even explore new cooking methods and international cuisine, allowing for a full appreciation of food from the garden to the table.

 

 

 

Please click here to donate funds or supplies for our garden program.

 

 

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