{"id":23997,"date":"2024-05-17T02:06:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T06:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=23997"},"modified":"2024-05-17T06:21:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T10:21:55","slug":"bricks-community-garden-has-open-space-for-residents-to-plant-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2024\/05\/bricks-community-garden-has-open-space-for-residents-to-plant-this-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick&#8217;s Community Garden Has Open Space for Residents to Plant This Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23998\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/brick_garden.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23998\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23998\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/brick_garden.jpg\" alt=\"Garden plots at the Brick Community Garden, 2022. (Courtesy: Alyssa Riccardi\/ Micromedia Publications)\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/brick_garden.jpg 700w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/brick_garden-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/brick_garden-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/brick_garden-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garden plots at the Brick Community Garden, 2022. (Courtesy: Alyssa Riccardi\/ Micromedia Publications)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick Township has a community garden, and there is space available for any resident with a green thumb and a desire to grow something wonderful this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Community Garden is located at Havens Farm, 521 Herbertsville Road, a historic farm that is part of a facility that also hosts cultural and civic events. Applications are now being accepted for beds in the garden for the 2024 season.<\/p>\n<p>Community Garden beds measure 4-by-8 feet in area and 1-foot high. The season fee is $20 per bed with a limit of one bed per household. Beds will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Handicap-accessible beds are available.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23999\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/garden1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23999\" class=\"size-large wp-image-23999\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/garden1-1024x783.jpg\" alt=\"A plot map of the Brick Community Garden off Herbertsville Road. (Credit: Township of Brick)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/garden1-1024x783.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/garden1-400x306.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/garden1-768x587.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/garden1-1536x1174.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/garden1.jpg 1698w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plot map of the Brick Community Garden off Herbertsville Road. (Credit: Township of Brick)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_24000\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/garden2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24000\" class=\"size-large wp-image-24000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/garden2-1024x782.jpg\" alt=\"A plot map of the Brick Community Garden off Herbertsville Road. (Credit: Township of Brick)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/garden2-1024x782.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/garden2-400x305.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/garden2-768x586.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/garden2-1536x1172.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/garden2.jpg 1698w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24000\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plot map of the Brick Community Garden off Herbertsville Road. (Credit: Township of Brick)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Anyone interested is asked to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bricktownship.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/GardenApplicationandMap2024.pdf\">download the application<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bricktownship.net\/departments\/land-use\/\">township\u2019s land use website<\/a> and carefully read the rules and requirements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain, beds will be given out on a first-come, first-served basis, so please act quick if you would like to participate in the Brick Community Garden,\u201d an announcement from the township said this week.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, residents can call Cheryce Moore at 732-262-1041, ext. 5302.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2024\/05\/bricks-community-garden-has-open-space-for-residents-to-plant-this-season\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick Township has a community garden, and there is space available for any resident with a green thumb and a desire to grow something wonderful this season. The Community Garden is located at Havens Farm, 521 Herbertsville Road, a historic farm that is part of a facility that also hosts cultural and civic events. Applications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[24,1337,4484,4082],"class_list":["post-23997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-community-garden","tag-featured","tag-havens-farm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/brick_garden.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-6f3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}