Help Us Continue Our Grants
The Growing Fund generates about $25,000 a year through the generous donations of the members of The Garden Club of America Zone IV garden clubs. Over the years, every club in Zone IV has received multiple Growing Fund grants that have allowed them to actively pursue local endeavors that help educate others as well as to beautify and restore our New Jersey environment. To date, the Growing Fund has gifted a total of 96 projects and $595,000. Won't you help us continue this worthy tradition?
Rutgers Gardens
Rain Garden
Enhances and expands the Rain Garden at Rutgers Gardens, the botanic garden of Rutgers University. Established as a NJC Growing Fund project in 2010, it serves as an ecological demonstration garden through which the university and public communities can learn about the diverse functions and benefits of rain garden establishment in the landscape.
Raritan Headwaters Sensory Garden Pathway
Creates wheelchair-accessible pathways within the Sensory Garden at Fairview Farm, the headquarters of Raritan Headwaters Association. Supported as a NJC Growing Fund project in 2018, this enhancement creates inclusive space designed to offer multi sensory experiences to individuals of all ages and abilities.
The Clubhouse of Tree Frog Trail
Constructs a nature inspired children's clubhouse located within the Tree Frog Trail, a 2 acre, nature based interactive playground currently under construction at The Watershed Institute (Pennington).
Reeves-Reed Arboretum Beech Leaf Disease (BLD) Treatment Program
Continues the treatment for the Arboretum's significant Beech tree inventory in the initial stages of BLD.
Thomas Edison Greenhouse
Continues the restoration of the historic Thomas Edison greenhouse (Llewellyn Park, West Orange) utilizing 1908 construction records, to repair and restore ventilation doors and plant hospital benches.
Reeves-Reed Arboretum Beech Leaf Disease (BLD) Treatment Program
Provides treatment for the Arboretum's significant and beautiful beech trees in the initial stages of BLD.
The Millburn /Short Hills Community Garden Restoration Project
Allows for much needed tree and pathway maintenance.
The Shakespeare Garden in Cedar Brook Park
Master planner for revitalization project of historic Olmsted park
Billy Johnson Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve
Mountain Lakes riparian restoration and native planting
Monmouth Day Care Center Garden Outdoor Classroom
Creation and repair of garden beds on MDCC playground
Flat Rock Brook Nature Center Outdoor Classroom
Construction of an outdoor classroom with restoration of riparian habitat
Civil War Monument Garden Restoration Project on the Morristown Green
Irrigation, lighting and planting of a native plant garden appropriate to colonial times
Previous Grant recipients
Cedar Brook Park Shakespeare Garden
Delaware & Raritan Greenway Land Trust -Native Plant Nursery
Ford Mansion Restoration
Morristown National Historic Park
"Glenmont’ Thomas Edison Greenhouse
Habitat for Humanity of Englewood
Millburn-Short Hills Community Garden
Reeves-Reed Arboretum - Freeman Medal Plant Display
Rutgers University Rain Garden
Washington Crossing State Historic Park
City Green Farms Greenhouse
Boys & Girls Club of Mercer Co. Outdoor Classroom
Mountain Lakes Forest Restoration Project
