Town Hall “Hispanics, the Environment, and the Clean Air Act""

Come out to this panel tomorrow night! Our own Andrea Ferich is on the panel.

Location: Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center

101 Cooper Street

Camden, NJ

Time: ‎6:00PM Wednesday, June 1st

On behalf of Democracia U.S.A. (DUSA) and the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), I would like to extend to you a special invitation to participate in our upcoming educational town hall “Hispanics, the Environment and the Impact of the Clean Air Act”, to be held on June 1st, 6:00–8:00 p.m., at the Andrew Vitagliano Gallery, on the second floor of the Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center, located at 101 Cooper Street, Camden, NJ.

At this town hall forum, participants will learn about the importance of protecting the health of our communities through the Clean Air Act. For 40 years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has protected our health by cleaning up life-threatening air pollution and driven innovation that has created a new job sector. It is critical that we protect our community and not let big polluters have a free pass to spew pollution without limit. EPA’s ability to set standards for clean air and water allow public health professionals to protect America’s children, pregnant women, senior citizens, and other vulnerable populations from soot, mercury, arsenic, and other poisons in the air and water.

It is vital that community leaders and organizations also participate so that they can in turn speak on behalf of the community on this significant subject. We would be honored if you were to attend this important event. Please feel free to extend this invitation to your staff and membership/constituency.

To RSVP, please reach out to me at (609)504-2613 or via email at ftrevino@mydemocracia.org. Again, we look forward to seeing you there.

Eggzy

Whether you have chickens or you like to eat eggs, you MUUUST check out this site.

Eggzy is a marketplace connecting backyard Egg Producers with local consumers.

Complete with a National map of local flocks, and spreadsheets and resources for chicken owner, eggzy is a great resource for the local sustainable agriculture movement.

SJ Magazine

There was a really amazing article in this month's SJ Magazine discussing the important work of the Center and what we bring to the region.

Every month they ask 10 Questions for the magazine. This month they interviewed Andrea Ferich, our Director of Sustainability.

Read about it here.

Planting the Seeds of Change
Environmental justice takes root in Camden

By Terri Akman

Andrea Ferich in the greenhouse at the Center for Environmental Transformation

Andrea Ferich is fighting for justice – only not the kind that’s most familiar to you. In her job at the Center for Environmental Transformation in Camden, Ferich is working to relieve the impact the daily delivery of the county’s trash is having on the city and its people. She hopes, prays and works for justice – environmental justice.

What is environmental justice?
Environmental justice means that nobody bears more than their fair share of pollution. Sometimes there are a multitude of toxins in one community that result from things another person does from day to day. Environmental justice means that nobody has a lower quality of life due to pollution, and everybody has access to healthy food. Environmental justice means having good quality jobs that are also good for the environment and the local economy.

What is the Center for Environmental Transformation?
The center is dedicated to environmental transformation and environmental justice, particularly in the Waterfront South neighborhood of Camden. Through education, job training and remediation, we are a model for sustainable community development. We have a greenhouse and a garden, where we grow 12,000 heirloom vegetable seedlings a year. We teach cooking classes for residents in our handmade bread oven. We make sustainable products, such as rain barrels, and grow plants native to a rain garden. We also raise chickens. Food system security is an important part of environmental justice.

Right across the street from our greenhouse, we have a retreat center that sleeps 24 people in a renovated convent. People come from around the county to see firsthand how they are affecting the local lifestyle just by throwing things away. We are hoping they see what they can do to save our community and improve the quality of life in Camden.

The Center started in 2007 after a group of parishioners from Sacred Heart Church returned from serving in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. They realized that our neighborhood is one of the best places to model environmental justice in response to the disproportionate impact of the region’s environmental and social problems.

Why is your location important to your message?
Most people don’t know where their waste goes. All of the trash, sewage and storm water of the county comes directly to Camden. The Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority brings in 50 million gallons of sludge a day. The trash comes to a trash-to-steam incinerator located here in Waterfront South.

Camden’s sewer systems are hundreds of years old, meaning they were designed at a time when there weren’t a lot of huge parking lots, and they didn’t have as many rooftops and standard sidewalks as we have now. These surfaces are non-pervious – they don't allow storm water to enter back into the underground water table. Instead, it goes into the sewer pipe through the storm drain. When it rains heavily, the storm water combines with the sewage in the pipes underground. The pipes back-up, and sewage fills the streets in Camden.

Can anything be done to properly drain storm water?
You can prevent storm water from going into the sewage system by connecting rainbarrels, building rain gardens and building green roofs. We are working with the Camden Storm Water Management and Resource Training (SMART) Initiative and are planning to plant 40 rain gardens in Camden in the next few years, which will keep storm water from entering the sewage system every year. At the greenhouse, we’re growing native rain garden plants for the rain gardens. This project is grassroots and is a collaborative project with Rutgers Cooperative Extension, CCMUA, Coopers Ferry Development Association and the NJ Tree Foundation.

Many local children participate in planting and harvesting fresh food in the garden at the Center for Environmental Transformation

Why is your garden vital to the city of Camden?
People don’t have access to healthy food here. There’s only one grocery store for a city of 80,000 people. But that city has over 4,000 vacant lots. That means there’s a lot of room for farming.
Our gardens are a great place for people to beautify the neighborhood, build community, create jobs and eat better. We grow healthy food and address the production, distribution and availability of healthy, organic, chemical-free food, and we educate people on how to garden.

About one third of our food goes to the Waterfront South Garden Club members who work in the gardens, another third is sold at a farm stand in the neighborhood and at the Brooklawn Shoprite, and we also supply those who come to the center. We hire junior farmers – youth from the neighborhood – who are paid a stipend for their work at the garden. They take produce home to their families and deliver food to the elderly and anyone who can’t get out of the house. People don’t always realize the practical solutions in front of us can create systemic change for places like Camden.

Can you talk about the Waterfront South Environmental Network?
We get together once a month with local industries, the municipality, non-profits and residents from the neighborhood to talk about how we can transform our problems into resources, work together for environmental justice, encourage best practices from industries and impact policy. Pollution is a misuse of a resource. Perhaps there are materials that one factory is releasing into the environment that another factory might need.

One of the things that came out of the meeting was that a local business had large storage food-grade barrels that they were paying to have disposed. Now the com-pany throws the barrels over our fence, and we hire people in the neighborhood to transform them into rain barrels, which we sell for a profit throughout Camden County. People collect rainwater and use that to water their gardens and lawns. The more people can keep storm water away from storm drains, the higher the quality of life in Camden. Only when we can really look at what we are throwing away will we begin to go deep enough into learning how to live sustainably.

Education is a key component to your mission. Can you talk about that?
Learning at the center is quite hands on. In our greenhouse, we hold over 1,000 gallons of storm water in our tanks. These tanks are connected to a hydro-pump on a bike. When you ride the bicycle, it pumps the water out of the tank and waters the plants using the rainwater we collected. This is a great way to learn about storm water run-off. We have developed a whole youth-led, multi-media curriculum about the garden, from the seed to the table. We have students come to talk about things we can do to reduce our waste. We also have weekly cooking classes at our outdoor bread oven. Children learn they can make a difference and that their ideas and cooperation are central to creating a healthy world.

Ferich teaches student groups the importance of growing and eating healthy, organic foods

Tell us about the retreats you offer.
We have week-long, weekend and day-long retreats where we discuss environmental injustice and the systemic issues that create places like Camden.

We might go on an environmental justice reality tour of the neighborhood, where we look at the geography of the industries and how they disproportionately affect the people of Camden. We talk about the interwoven nature of race, class, gender and pollution in a complicated cycle of poverty. If we find interesting pieces of trash we might make sculptures or art pieces in our art classroom. We spend a lot of time studying the production and waste cycles of a throwaway, consumer-based society. We also talk about food system security and the current state of industrial agriculture. We might garden. We look at issues of globalization and outsourcing. Camden is a great place to study this. It is the perfect location to model sustainable development through urban ecosystem renewal.

What changes have you seen so far in Camden?
I can see direct changes in the neighborhood. There is a new energy in Waterfront South. Camden is now one of the fastest growing community garden cities in the country. There is an optimism and hope that we’re witnessing a turning point.

Little kids are excited to plant seeds, and some of the neighborhood artists have painted beautiful poetry and paintings on the boarded-up doors and windows. It’s contagious. Now there’s a 99-seat theater, a maritime museum with youth building boats, a planned gymnasium and a firehouse transforming into a community arts center. There’s a great community development corporation in the neighborhood called the Heart of Camden, a sister nonprofit to the center focused on housing and the development of the Broadway Corridor. They continue to work steadily in the complete restoration of this neighborhood. Our work supplements their work in improving the quality of life for Camden residents. Beauty and the goodness of our imaginations will continue to heal Camden.

What are some steps everyone can take to help the environment?
The most important thing is to know where your food comes from. Shop at farmers markets or join a CSA – Community Supported Agriculture. Or grow your own food. Also, understand your ecological footprint. There are ways you can reduce what you throw away by looking at what you’re buying before you buy it. Two thirds of everything we throw away is food packaging, so we should buy things that have less packaging, demand local food and support local businesses. Bring your own bags to the grocery store. Live near your workplace so you don’t have to commute far. The main thing is to reduce what you consume. Think of us when you brush your teeth in the morning. Please turn off the water.

Birds

Most people would think that being naturalist in Camden, NJ is a paradox. However I have found abundant connection with the diversity and goodness of the earth, making home here along the Delaware River, indeed.

The River is a pathway for the birds and the insects migrating and mating, making way through our neighborhood along the shore. Only a few miles up the river, Riverton, NJ was previously home to an entomological field station, for which I am attempting to locate a species inventory.

As an organic farmer sometimes the insectas are best friends, and at other times an enemy, nevertheless always intrigued passionately.

The native plants and chemical free fields bring the insects back, the insects bring the birds.

And here is the ongoing list of birds that we have sighted, complete with song clips here in Camden, NJ. Then name password for the list is the zipcode, 08104 under the name aferich@gmail.com

Certainly we will not work to protect the things that we do not know. Here's the most beautiful owls

EPA Environmental Quality Award

Congratulations to the Center for Environmental Transformation for receiving an Environmental Quality Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Here's more about the awards.

Environmental Quality Awards

Each April, EPA honors individuals and organizations who have contributed significantly to improving the environment during the prior year in New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The awards recognize achievement in the following categories:

• Individual Citizen
• Non-Profit Organization, Environmental or Community Group
• Environmental Education
• Business & Industry
• Federal, State, Local or Tribal Government or Agency
• Media

To be selected, nominees must have:

• Significantly contributed to improving environmental quality in New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands during the prior year.
• Demonstrated a high achievement level in the award category.
• Created unique or location-specific benefits, produced results that are sustainable or reproducible, or increased public involvement in environmental action.

Region II Headquarters

Sustainable Agriculture Land Sharing

One key aspect to sustainability is how we transform our problems into resources. Another way of looking at this might be, how do we most effectively use the resources that our available to the greatest common good, in a way that doesn't compromise the capabilities for any one group of people or future generation from equally benefiting. The Pennsylvania Assocication of Sustainabile Agriculture (PASA) has recently released a revalatory new program that matching aspiring farmers with underused conserved farmland.

http://www.philly.com/philly/restaurants/20110519_Pennsylvania_lease_program_matches_aspiring_farmers_to_available_land.html

Great article about Farmers leasing land in PA.

Pennsylvania lease program matches aspiring farmers to available land

May 19, 2011|By Dianna Marder, Inquirer Staff Writer

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PASA, which started 20 years ago and has 6,000 members, offers technical and business training for farmers. The land-lease program, started with the Costas, is a first for PASA: It aims to match wannabe farmers with land that is in conservation.

PASA's land-lease program is part of a larger landscape of intense interest in locally grown produce, indeed, in every aspect of the journey from farm to fork.

This local food focus, along with concern about obesity, is generating an array of initiatives, paid for with government funds, foundation grants, or private enterprise, aimed at providing equal access to fresh, local vegetables grown in untainted soil, with the ultimate goal of a healthier diet.

"As a nation, we're still spending billions unnecessarily on crop subsidies," says Bob Pierson, founder and director of Farm to City, which does consulting and marketing for farmers markets and other food businesses.

"But we're moving to a point where 'local' is the new status quo," Pierson says. "I can't see this movement going away any time soon."

Philadelphia is ahead of the pack nationally, in part because the region is rich in farmland, but also because it has well-established agencies that see sustainable farming as essential for public health and economic development, says Barry Seymour, at the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, which, with the William Penn Foundation, gave $100,000 to PASA's new land-lease program.

As part of Mayor Nutter's green initiative, Philadelphia adopted a Food Charter in 2008, and, joining the ranks of more than 50 other U.S. cities, established a Food Policy Council, comprising city and regional stakeholders.

So in 2009, when it came time to distribute federal funds to battle obesity and cigarette smoking, the city got the largest amount per capita - $25 million.

That money now funds Get Healthy Philly, a project of the city Department of Public Health, the School District, and the Food Trust.

Over two years, Get Healthy aims to develop healthier corner stores, open new farmers' markets, place mobile produce carts in underserved neighborhoods, and eliminate junk food and sugary drinks from schools.

It funds Philly Food Bucks, which gives eligible residents $2 back in scrip for every $5 in food stamps (now SNAP) spent at farmers' markets and designated corner stores. And it lets residents call 311, the line usually reserved for problems with trash collection or nuisance bars, to find those outlets.

In the public schools, Get Healthy hopes to put locally grown fruits and vegetables in cafeterias; remove junk food from fund-raisers and as classroom rewards; and place breakfast carts in elementary and middle schools to increase the number of youngsters who eat a good breakfast.

Some progress is already evident. Four of 10 planned new farmers' markets are in place. Use of food stamps at farmers' markets doubled from 2009 to 2010. So far, 160 of a hoped-for 200 schools have Wellness Councils in place; 91 of 100 breakfast carts are feeding 37,000 students in 60 elementary and middle schools. There are no mobile food carts in neighborhoods yet.

Sara Solomon, who heads Get Healthy Philly, says people and systems are in place to measure results and assess the project's effectiveness.

Meanwhile, assuring a continuing flow of food from the farm is essential, says Marilyn Anthony, PASA's Eastern Pennsylvania director. With more than 425,000 acres of preserved farmland in Pennsylvania and a crop of farmers whose average age is 57, new farmers are needed.

"That was the genesis of this program," Anthony says. "We knew we needed to recruit and help young farmers overcome the highest obstacle, which is access to land."

For now, the Costas are the only participants, but as well-educated young people who did not grow up in farm families, TJ and Chris Costa are typical of the nation's next generation of farmers, Anthony says.

Already, collards, kale, and rouge d'hiver (a tender, red-tipped heirloom lettuce) are sprouting on the five-acre section of Lundale the Costas are leasing.

This whole venture cannot expand quickly, Anthony says.

"We need people to understand that finding a farmer and finding land is not like add water, stir, wait 10 minutes. It's a process. I'm encouraging people to apply at least two years before they are ready to act. There's a lot to be done to prepare a property."

The Costas had been growing produce and raising hens on their quarter-acre home near Downingtown, calling their business Turning Roots Farm. But they wanted to expand. Now they are growing on two of the five acres they lease from Lundale's 320 acres, and prepping the other three acres for next year.

They have learned just how difficult farming can be.

"We wanted to grow food and play in the dirt, but we had to develop a business plan with short- and long-term goals, sales estimates, all that," Chris says. "PASA coaches us through - they're awesome."

PASA also provided a pro bono lawyer to draw up a contract between the Costas and Morris, but it is not footing any of the Costas' bills.

An intensively planted sustainable farm can produce 7,000 pounds of vegetables in one season on a single acre. Direct sales can generate $8,000 to $18,000 per acre.

"Mostly, we've learned that farming is about patience and trust," Chris Costa says. "You have to trust that the rain will come - and the rain will go. You learn to trust that seeds want to grow.

"You learn to let go and let nature do its work."

May 2011 New and Notes from CFET

May 17, 2011

Greetings to all!

On Sunday, May 15^th, the Center sponsored its annual Fair Earth Day at Sacred Heart Church here in Camden.  As you know, Earth Day is in April, but with the celebration of Easter on April 24^th, and other celebrations during the next two weeks, we had to postpone our celebration until this past Sunday.  Earth Day was first marked in 1970 by a group that were certainly set apart as “hippies.”  Now, with each April 22^nd that goes by, this celebration becomes ever more a truly global phenomenon.

There is always something a bit awkward for me in Earth Day.  To have an Earth Day is like having an Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 – Oct. 15), a Black History month (February) or a Women’s History month (March).  We carve out a day or month in which we focus on a particular aspect of our history and culture.  We have to carve out this time because there is no assurance that, if we didn’t have these periods of time, children and adults would appreciate the richness of the history and reality of women, Hispanics and African Americans, among other not well represented people in our common story.  While celebrating our past is a good thing,  while raising the consciousness of all people about the wealth of the tradition bequeathed us by women, by Hispanics and by African Americans is a good thing, I wonder if it’s a good thing to have these special time periods when we remember those who ordinarily, without such a month long celebration, may be overlooked and forgotten.  I wonder if it’s a good thing if we have a single day, or part of a day, to remember and celebrate Earth.  Is that adequate?

On Earth Day we call on people to rethink how they live their lives, in terms of their carbon footprint.  This involves modes of travel, food choices, waste creation, energy consumption and consumer choices.  We point out the impact that our lifestyles, cumulatively, are having on the planet earth:  on the air we breathe, the water we drink, the soil we depend upon for food.  We hope that setting aside one day each year will be effective in reaching the tipping point that will mark the beginning of the end of a destructive and unsustainable way of life.

I must say I’m skeptical.  I am not skeptical about the what science tells us about the human impact on the environment, nor about the consequences of the pervasive desire for ever increasing rates of production, nor about need for change in our lifestyle.  What I am skeptical about is that we human beings take seriously enough this time in history when we are presented with an opportunity to act contrary to our immediate ancestors, and some contemporaries, who did not, and do not, think twice about the pillaging of nature to satisfy the consuming thirst of human desire.  The wonders of our technological capacities, coupled with the insatiable desire for more and more, is a deadly combination for human beings, as well as for all other species that depend upon the earth for sustenance.  I’m skeptical that one day a year is enough to move the hearts and minds of human beings to adopt a caretaking attitude toward all of creation.  I’m skeptical.

But I take comfort at the small, yet cumulative, steps that our celebration of Earth Day marks.  More people are talking about carpooling, more are taking public transportation, more are choosing vehicles with low emissions and high gas mileage characteristics.  More people are eschewing the plastic grocery bag in favor of the reusable cloth bag.  More people are purchasing energy from renewable resources. More people are eating locally, and organically.  There are lots of points of light, as it were, in the human world that speak to a new and deeper appreciation of the earth and her resources.  Each of us, committed to a new way of living on the earth, can do his or her “bit” to lighten the burden that the earth bears.  This is what gives me hope.  Thanks to Betty Musetto, Cathy Nevins, Jean and Bill Harden, Andrea Ferich, Ted Fox, Eileen Borland, Barbara Hopkins and all their helpers in making the 2011 Fair Earth Day at Sacred Heart such a success!

On the website of the Earth Day Network there is a post by Elam Stoltzfus of Florida State University.  He wrote on April 17^th, in part:  We should ask ourselves:  "Am I making a difference to enhance, protect and invest in the quality of life for future generations of this planet we named Earth?"  This is a key question.  If Earth Day focuses our attention on this question, then perhaps the awkwardness of an Earth Day is misplaced.  Each year Earth Day challenges us to review our lives, to examine our consciences, and recommit ourselves to answering this question affirmatively, creatively and in community.

I commit to living in a way that enhances, protects and invests in the quality of life for future generations of this planet we named Earth.  Will you join me?

Sincerely,

Mark Doorley

President, Board of Trustees

The Center for Environmental Transformation

http://www.camdencenterfortransformation.org/

NEWS AND NOTES

1.       There will be a June Work Day on Saturday, June 4^th from 9AM til Noon.  Please contact Andrea Ferich at aferich@gmail.com if you are planning on joining us.  We meet at 412 Jasper Street, which is the entrance to the Greenhouse, at 9AM.  Please bring along work gloves and a supply of water.

2.       On Saturday May 7^th our Work Day was part work/part celebration with Fellowship House and the NJ Tree Foundation.  With our friends from Sustainable Cherry Hill, as well as neighbors in Waterfront South, we planted several very large shrubs as part of the new butterfly garden behind Fellowship House.  This beautiful spot will host gatherings for the community and those who benefit from the work of Fellowship House.  Thanks to all of you who took part in this event.  Thanks, in particular, to Jessica Franzini of the NJ Tree Foundation who supplied the trees and bushes.

3.       SAVE THE DATE:  The Third Annual Thomas Berry Lecture will be held on Thursday, October 6^th at 7:30PM at Sacred Heart Church.  Our speaker will be Judy Wicks, founder of the  White Dog Café in Philadelphia, on Sansom Street, near the University of Pennsylvania.  She is also the founder in 2001 of Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE)  In addition she founded the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia and Fair Food.  For a suggested contribution of $10, tickets for this event will be available in late summer.  Please put this on your calendar.  You will not want to miss this fantastic person, nor her reflections on our responsibility to the environment.

4.       This Sunday our friends at M’Kor Shalom, a synagogue in Cherry Hill, are hosting M’KorStock, a festival of Music, Arts & Shalom.  This is on Sunday, May 22^nd, from 11:30AM til 6PM.  Please visit their website at http://www.mkorstock.com/ for more information.  Come out for the music, the art and the fellowship.

5.       Do you have old printer cartridges, cell phones and chargers that you don’t know what to do with?  Give them to the Center and we will take care of getting them to the appropriate recycler.  This also produces some revenue for the Center.  Contact Andrea at aferich@gmaill.com for information on where to drop these items off at the Center.

6.       Are you celebrating a birthday soon?  A wedding anniversary?  A great way to mark your birthday and/or anniversary is to ask your friends to make a contribution to the Center in your name.  Have them send a check payable to the Center for Transformation to 1729 Ferry Ave., Camden, NJ 08104.  Have them put your name in the memo line!  This is a great way to avoid bringing more stuff into your home and enables your friends and family to support the work of the Center in your name.

Native Plants

I've just returned from the Brandywine River Conservancy in Chadd's Ford, PA. It's the midway point between my mother and Camden, and we caught their most amazing annual native plant sale. Native plants are of utmost importance in reestablishing habitats for insects, birds, all wildlife really. Native plants also greatly help to mitigate stormwater, purify, and beautify the city as many of these species thrive in both wet and dry conditions. One of the local leaders in this movement is Doug Tallamay, author of "Bringing Nature Home"

It's too beautiful out for me to write much more about this at the current time... except as to say that native plants are being used in our Camden SMART initiative in conjunction with the Rutgers Water Resource Program . Read more about that here.

In addition to lovely conversation on the philosophy of native I've also found a GGGRRREEEAAATT resource for native seed saving at the Brandywine River Conservancy, join me on an upcoming Thursday.

Got some natives this weekend with my mom for Mother's Day and some seeds I will be starting in the fall...


PLANTS:
zizia aurea: Golden Alexanders
eupatorium hyssopifolium (native hyssop!!!!!!)
lobelia carinalis : Cardinal Flower
matteuccia struthiopteris: Osterich Fern
aquilegia canandensis: wild columbine
sedum ternatumL 
spiranthis odorata: Ladies Tresses (Native ORCHID!!!!)
lonicera sempervirens: native HONEYSUCKLEEEEE!!!!
senecio aureus: golden ragwort

Here's the ongoing list of Native Plants that have been planted in Camden, NJ in the Waterfront South neighborhood:

From North Creek Nursery

• Aster novae-angliae ‘Purple Dome’
• Purple flower, 2-3’ tall
• Aster oblongifolius ‘Raydon’s Favorite’
• Abundant lavender flowers, 3’ tall
• Amsonia hubrichtii in our 38 cell plug
• Excellent foliage plant, 2-3’ tall with blue flowers in spring, golden colored foliage in the fall
• Echinacea ‘White Swan’
• White flowering Echinacea, 3-4’ tall
• Andropogon virginicus
• Great, tough native grass 4-6’ tall
• Phlox paniculata ‘Eva Cullum’
• Summer blooming pink with deep red eye, 3’ tall
• Solidago ‘Golden Fleece’
• Semi evergreen, shorter variety 18-24” tall, golden colored flowers
• Rudbeckia fulgida var fulgida
• Longer blooming than ‘Goldsturm’, 2-3’ tall

From Pinelands Nursery

Bitter Panic Grass

Culver's Root

Brown-Eyed Susan

Wild Bergamont

Red-twig dogwood

Blackhaw Viburnam

False Sunflower

New England Aster

Big Bluestem -

Blue Lobelia -

Blue Wild Indigo -

Canada Goldenrod -

Columbine -

New England Aster -

Orange Coneflower -

Turtlehead -

Wild Bergamont -

Yellow Wild Indigo -

Pre-existing species:

spiderwort

chicory

purslane

milkweed

jerusalem artichoke

...and so so many more....

Camden, NJ the new Andrew Wyeth landscape, perhaps