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D&R Greenway Land Trust Announces In-Person First Ever Harvest Moon Ball Saturday, September 30 Discovery Center at Point Breeze FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – September 18, 2023, Princeton ~  D&R Greenway Land Trust’s Harvest Moon Ball, featuring musicians and theatre performers, will be held at the Discovery Center at Point Breeze on the evening of September 30, from 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. at 101 Park Street, Bordentown, NJ. The ticket price of $60 supports the historic and ecologically important property and > Read More

D&R Greenway Land Trust Announces In-Person Fall 2023 Native Plant Sale RESCHEDULED DATE Wednesday, September 27 12:00 noon – 2:00 p.m. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – September 12, 2023, Princeton ~  D&R Greenway announces a wide variety of healthy local plants are ready for purchase at their annual Fall Native Plant Sale taking place on Friday, September 22: 2:30 pm-5:30 pm and Saturday, September 23: 9:30 am-12:30 pm. Planting natives enhances home gardens in natural beauty, attracts butterflies and birds in the landscape, > Read More

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – August 15, 2023, Bordentown, NJ ~ D&R Greenway is a proud partner of LALDEF. Students in the FUTURO program emerge as conscientious adults that will become the next generation of leaders. “D&R Greenway Land Trust and the Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund, FUTURO program, are working together to provide young people in Mercer County, particularly the Trenton area, with opportunities to engage with the Delaware River and other important natural resources in our > Read More

                                                                                Press – Contact for an interview or story:  GSWS: Margaret Simpson, Publicity, 609-462-5984 or                 Tess Fields, President, 609-286-2323, tessiefields@gmail.com                 D&R Greenway Land Trust: Deb Kilmer, Executive Assistant to the President & CEO, 609-924-4646 For Immediate Publication: D&R Greenway Land Trust hosts GSWS Juried Exhibition on Migration D&R Greenway Land Trust is hosting the Garden State Watercolor Society (GSWS) for its 53rd Annual Open Juried Exhibition, “Migration: Movement for Survival.” GSWS artists created their art to > Read More

Visit D&R Greenway’s Discovery Center at Point Breeze to learn about 27 heritage crops grown on this land by the Lenape over thousands of years, and by Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte from 1820-1839. The exiled King of Spain and Napoleon’s older brother entertained the scientific, political and artistic communities with food from his garden; today’s produce is donated to feed people in need. Take a journey through time on a tour of the new Discovery Center at Point Breeze Never-before-seen exhibits > Read More

D&R Greenway Land Trust Announces Gala, Sunday, May 7 at the new Discovery Center at Point Breeze Presentation of Donald B. Jones Conservation Award to local conservation advocate and recognition of the Lenape, original inhabitants of the land at Point Breeze FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – April 27, 2023 ~PRINCETON, NJ – D&R Greenway Land Trust is pleased to announce local conservation advocate, Johan Firmenich, President and Co-Founder, Nature360 Inc. as recipient of the land trust’s 2023 Donald B. Jones Conservation > Read More

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – April 20, 2023, Hopewell, NJ ~ HOPEWELL, NJ – The Hopewell Valley Arts Council and The Johnson Atelier are hosting a community-wide sculptural celebration this year, Seward Johnson | Celebrating the Everyday. This year-long public art project highlights the life and work of J. Seward Johnson II (1930-2020), a renowned sculptor known for his lifelike sculptures of everyday people. One of the major highlights of this project is Johnson’s monumental sculpture, The Awakening, at D&R Greenway’s > Read More

For Immediate Release, February 21, 2023, Princeton, NJ ~ Ireland and central New Jersey have one important thing in common: rolling hills of green. In celebration of D&R Greenway Land Trust’s work to preserve the green in our local communities, Voices Chorale NJ is bringing Irish music and dancing to a benefit for both organizations just in time for St. Patrick’s Day. The event will take place in a restored barn on Sunday, March 12, from 3-6 p.m.at D&R Greenway’s > Read More

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – October 3, 2022, Bordentown, NJ ~ Five town eateries have joined forces with D&R Greenway Land Trust as founding partners of the “Garden to Bistro” event. During the month of October, each week will showcase a restaurant where patrons can taste recipes created from produce harvested from this season’s Historic Bonaparte Garden. While visiting the restaurant, patrons can learn a bit of history from the Point Breeze table kiosk. “Bistro month in October connects people to > Read More

Notice of Public Hearing, Green Acres Program, NJDEP FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 11, 2022, Princeton ~ D&R Greenway Land Trust has announced that a public hearing will be held on applications it has submitted to the Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection for exemption from taxation on real property owned in Hopewell Township, Mercer County, and East Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, that is used for public recreation and conservation purposes. All interested parties are invited to participate in the > Read More