The New Paltz Gardens for Nutrition

The NPGFN is said to be one of the oldest continuous community gardens in New York. Founded in 1976, the NPGFN encompasses a large grid of 135 individual 20-by-30-foot plots filled with vegetables, flowers, herbs, bushes, and trees set hard against the Wallkill River on a five-acre flood plain. The gardens have running water for gardening and a separate line of potable town water; four years ago, a solar-powered electric deer fence was installed around the entire grid. Gardening tools, wheelbarrows, and lawnmowers are provided and are maintained or replaced yearly. Unlike other gardens, the NPGFN is not re-plowed each year. While this means that gardeners can return year after year to their ever-growing perennials, it can also mean that newcomers may have to work hard to undo what their predecessors left behind.”
       by Jessica Fleishman and Annie Kane-Horrigan, Excerpted from New York House