Making The Best Better: Canoe-nity Garden!

We've said it before, and we'll say it again:

We think 4-H Camp is the best!

And what do you do with the best?

You try to make it better.

And we're trying to make the entrance to Camp just a little bit better with our new:

For years one of the most popular requests for a new feature here at 4-H Camp was a gardening program, and Camp is coming through in the "campiest" way possible...with our brand-new "Canoe-nity Garden." 

We're re-purposing some of our aged,

Leaky,

No longer-lake-worthy vessels, 

And turning them into garden planters!

This new centerpiece of Camp will serve as a great welcome/farewell site near the entrance to the facility, as well as an exciting laboratory for our gardening classes, and to provide the opportunity to supply 4-H Camp-grown vegetables, fruits, and herbs to our Dining Hall kitchen. 

And here's the best part: we need your help (the whole community) to make the Canoe-nity Garden happen!

We've already got a great team working together to make this garden a reality:

-Scotts Lawn Care Company is donating all the organic soil and natural plant-feed we'll need for the whole project.

-Lowes of Newton has donated all the lumber we'll be using for the fence.

-Dreamscape Designs is once again helping with their construction and landscaping expertise.

Cause we aren't the only ones who will love the Canoe-nity Garden!

The wildlife of Stokes Forest will most likely ALSO love the Canoe-nity Garden.

And thus (with the help of Dreamscape Designs), we're building a fence!

A big ol' fence.

-The Sussex County 4-H Summer Blossoms are doing the designing and the planting, and we're getting help and guidance from the Rutgers Master Gardener Program and 4-H groups across the state.

Here's just a few of the creative...

And innovative...

Garden designs the 4-H Summer Blossoms have come up with.

- And YOU! You can help in two ways:

1) We've got a Canoe-nity Garden Work Weekend coming up! NEXT WEEKEND. Saturday, May 5th from 12pm-5pm will be a "fence" day and Sunday from 1pm-5pm we will start to place and fill the canoes! Let us know you'll be joining on our facebook event page.

2) Our Campfire Council (4-H Camp's volunteer alumni group) is running a crowd sourced, community fundraiser looking for small financial contributions to help put the finishing touches together! (If you/your business/group/whoever are looking to make a larger gift, we're also running our Cabin #9 Renovation Fundraiser.)

Visit our Campfire Council's GoFundMe Page to give! The impetus, passion, and drive for this project has come from our Camp community, so any amount, big or small, that the community has to give will help us have this Canoe-nity garden up and growing for Summer 2018!

So please, donate now! It's how we can all help to make the best better.