See the Beauty, Learn the History! Watch Our Short, New Video about Point Breeze from our Greenway Gala! Click on image above to watch our 7-minute video about Point Breeze. June 1, 2021 ~ Princeton, NJ – For Immediate Release Did you miss D&R Greenway’s extraordinary virtual 2021 Greenway Gala? Even if you did, you can still watch one of the major highlights. Click the video below to learn about the history and ecology of newly preserved Point Breeze in > Read More
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May 28, 2021, Princeton ~ Just in time for Memorial Day, 2021, D&R Greenway announces another preservation success with acquisition of 10 acres of land owned by Nutan Singh in Hopewell, New Jersey. In December 2020, the land trust purchased a conservation easement on this same land, dedicated to preservation by Nutan Singh in memory of her late husband, Anil. After completing a subdivision of the conservation land from the residential property, in May 2021 D&R Greenway purchased the eased > Read More
Marino Family Continues a Family Tradition of Preservation in the Sourlands Click map for detailed view of our 316th property permanently preserved. May 26, 2021 ~ Princeton, NJ D&R Greenway Land Trust announces the permanent preservation of its 316th property since its 1989 founding, less than a half mile from where the land trust first purchased land for preservation. This multigenerational half acre, made up of scenic woodland along Hopewell-Wertsville Road, is the second parcel of land preserved by the > Read More
D&R GREENWAY NATIVE PLANT SALE On-line Plant-Ordering OPEN NOW through April 28 In-Person Pick-Ups: May 6, 7, 8 “Creating Bountiful Home Habitat for All Seasons” Princeton, N.J. — April 19, 2021 D&R Greenway announces that its over sixty species of healthy local plants are ready for their annual Native Plant Sale. Purchases may now be arranged on-line, through April 28. Pre-order as soon as possible to secure preferred selections. Safe and easy pick-ups, on May 6th, 7th and 8th. > Read More
“People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.” David Attenborough Steward of the Earth Click above for David Attenborough’s 2021 New Year’s Message of Hope. Dear Friends, What a perfect time of year this is to celebrate the beauty and the importance of our life-sustaining Earth! Newly greened trees, the songs of birds, colorful flowers that make us smile, and the rejuvenation of farm fields–all of these > Read More
Join Us For An International Celebration of Land Preservation Virtual Gala – Sunday, May 16, 2021, 4:30 – 5:30 pm April 15, 2021 ~ Princeton, NJ ~ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The French Ambassador to the United States, Phillipe Etienne, will join D&R Greenway’s annual celebration of land preservation at its May 16th Virtual Gala from 4:30 – 5:30 pm. The event will feature Point Breeze, the former estate of Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte, the exiled King of Spain. Located in Bordentown, New Jersey, > Read More
February 25, 2021 ~ Princeton, NJ As D&R Greenway celebrates its 315th property preserved since its founding in 1989, Peter J. Dawson of Pennington, owner of Leigh Visual Imaging Solutions, enthusiastically takes the reins as the new Chair of the Board of Trustees. Peter takes over from Co-Chairs Wendy Kvalheim of Princeton and Christopher DeGrezia, Esq. of Montgomery who completed their terms after a collective 18 years of volunteer service and leadership. Both former Chairs will continue to use their > Read More
February 25, 2021 ~ Princeton, NJ D&R Greenway Land Trust congratulates Alan Hershey who was a Lifetime Service Award finalist at the virtual 2020 New Jersey State Governor’s Jefferson Awards Ceremony, presented by Multiplying Good. The Jefferson Awards, initiated in 1972 by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Senator Robert Taft Jr. and Sam Beard, are considered to be the Nobel Prize for community and public service and are given at both local and national levels. The Lifetime Service Award recognizes an individual > Read More
February 12, 2020 ~ Flemington, NJ During a meeting of the Bridgewater Township Council, held virtually at 7:30pm on Thursday February 11, 2021, D&R Greenway Land Trust President & CEO Linda Mead and artist James Fiorentino paid tribute to the life, legacy and land preservation efforts of Lt. Col. Vaucher. Fiorentino also shared with the Bridgewater community Vaucher’s portrait, which he completed and shared with the 102 year-old WWII veteran and his family just days before his passing. “It was > Read More
Napoleon’s Brother Lived in N.J. Here’s What Happened to the Estate. Jan. 31, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET, The New York Times ~ The name Bonaparte brings to mind many locales: Corsica, Paris, Alexandria, Waterloo and, finally, St. Helena. New Jersey? Not so much. Napoleon, the French emperor, never stepped foot in the state, but New Jersey was home to another Bonaparte: Napoleon’s older brother, Joseph, who was once the king of Naples and then Spain. Bonaparte built a sumptuous > Read More
