{"id":45,"date":"2022-12-04T01:34:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T01:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/greenpower\/?p=45"},"modified":"2022-12-14T17:36:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T17:36:06","slug":"norwood-garden-uvso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/greenpower\/2022\/12\/04\/norwood-garden-uvso\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwood Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Garden Name:<\/strong> Norwood Street Garden (HOV Garden #2)<\/p>\n

Organization:<\/strong> Heart of Vailsburg Block Club Coalition<\/a><\/p>\n

Location:<\/strong> 65 Norwood St, Newark, NJ 07106<\/p>\n

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Photo by Amina Hylton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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What to Know:<\/h3>\n

This garden has been open and flourishing since 2016. It is one of Heart of Vailsburg\u2019s 19 active gardens in the city.<\/p>\n

Heart of Vailsburg (HOV) is a volunteer organization that hosts community events for the neighborhood, raises awareness about various programs offered by the city of Newark, and works to bring the community together. This organization also partners with Unified Vailsburg Services Organization<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At this garden there are beds dedicated to herbs such as mint and basil, as well as produce like lettuce, peppers, and spinach. HOV leader, Amina Hylton, comments that their gardens look to provide produce that is plentiful in harvest and easy to care for throughout the year. Volunteer Ali Khawaja, student and co-president of Lifestyle Medicine<\/a>, mentions also that planting a small number of seeds can yield a fantastic harvest, making the lot at Norwood a quickly leafy area.<\/p>\n

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Photo taken by Ali Khawaja<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After a harvest, leftover produce is given to neighbors or nearby grocers. HOV does this to spread the wealth and bring awareness to the greenspace in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

HOV also wishes to bring neighbors\u2019 attention to different types of produce, such as tropical fruit like bitter melon. Amina mentioned that she\u2019d never heard of some of the produce they\u2019ve planted at the garden, but they\u2019ve been a great success.<\/p>\n

The 2020 pandemic greatly affected the very communities these gardens are made to provide for. Communities of color and low-income families especially suffered from lack of resources and access to sustainable food. Following the pandemic, the Norwood Garden has not been as active as it used to be, but HOV is working to keep it running for everyone.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Amina Hylton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Events Hosted at this Location:<\/h4>\n

Growshops \u2013 learn how to plant and care for different plants within the garden at one of these events<\/em><\/p>\n

Growtainments \u2013 community gatherings to watch a variety of demonstrations<\/em><\/p>\n

Turn Down the Garden \u2013 a yearly event that occurs between mid- to late-autumn where the garden is cleaned and turned down for the winter in preparation of the next harvest season<\/em><\/p>\n

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Want to get involved?<\/strong> Contact HOV at heartofvailsburg@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Garden Name: Norwood Street Garden (HOV Garden #2) Organization: Heart of Vailsburg Block Club Coalition Location: 65 Norwood St, Newark, NJ 07106   What to Know: This garden has been open and flourishing since 2016. It is one of Heart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4749,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,10],"tags":[17,18,12,16,19,20],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardens","category-greenspace","category-public","tag-ali-khawaja","tag-amina-hylton","tag-community-garden","tag-events","tag-hov","tag-uvso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/greenpower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/greenpower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/greenpower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/greenpower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4749"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/greenpower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/greenpower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/greenpower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/greenpower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/greenpower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/greenpower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}