Princeton, N.J. — June 23, 2020 — Mentoring future environmental leaders to carry on their preservation mission is crucial to D&R Greenway Land Trust. The nationally-accredited nonprofit has preserved 21,000 acres of land in New Jersey in 31 years. This week, D&R Greenway bids farewell to their 2019/2020 Community Conservation Fellow, Nadeem Demian. Princeton University Class of 2019, Nadeem’s degree is in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, with a certificate in Environmental Studies. The year-long fellowship is awarded to exceptional Princeton > Read More
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Hopewell, NJ — Vegetable seeds are already sprouting in the inaugural Community Victory Gardens, nearby the vintage red barn on St. Michaels Farm Preserve, announced D&R Greenway Land Trust. The vision to provide nearby residents with healthy ways of eating and support people in need of food security, started as a kernel of an idea ten years ago when the 415-acre Hopewell preserve was created. Farm manager Bill Flemer talks about how this year’s pilot project became a reality, “A few of us > Read More
Princeton, N.J. — D&R Greenway Land Trust announces that first brush strokes of paint are being applied to its Public Art Mural celebrating their upcoming Kayak Education Program on the banks of the Delaware River at Bordentown Beach. This program is designed to increase water access and awareness of watershed protection for all people who live along the Delaware, recently named River of the Year 2020 by American Rivers. The mural is to be completed by July 4. Meanwhile, the public is > Read More
Princeton, NJ — On May 5, New Jersey lost preservationist and philanthropist Betty Wold Johnson, at 99 fruitful years of age. D&R Greenway President and CEO, Linda Mead, warmly remembers many facets of the land trust’s enthusiastic supporter: “Betty Wold Johnson’s heart was always in the land and community of Hopewell, where she lived on land she permanently preserved with D&R Greenway.” On the other side of the borough, “Her partnership was key to the success of our campaign to save the > Read More
Princeton, N.J. – The virtual became real on May 9, at 5:30 p.m., as hundreds tuned into Princeton TV’s broadcast of D&R Greenway’s Gala Watch Party and Donald B. Jones Conservation Award Ceremony. Viewers were treated to intimate interviews of awardees –Phyllis Marchand and John Rassweiler of Princeton–, whose unique life experiences launched powerful personal conservation commitments that have resulted in preserved land in local communities. Those who missed the virtual Gala may view it on D&R Greenway’s website www.drgreenway.org. Christopher DeGrezia, Esq., [Partner, Fagre, Drinker, Biddle & Reath, LLP], could have been standing on a > Read More
Princeton, NJ — American Rivers has announced the Delaware River as 2020’s River of the Year. American Rivers’ honors today’s Delaware for renewed health and cleanliness, emphasizing “the community of individuals, organizations and municipalities, who not only mobilized but significantly joined forces, to restore health to these waters and to species dependent upon them.” The organization particularly notes the mighty Delaware’s recent “momentous progress in terms of water quality, river restoration and community revitalization.” This waterway, that played a significant > Read More
Princeton, N.J. — Beginning May 6, D&R Greenway Land Trust will be selling native, local plants for its annual Native Plant Sale, with pick-up dates on May 15 and 16. Due to the pandemic, this year plants must be pre-ordered as soon as possible to be sure to secure first-choice selections. Safe and easy pick-up will provide take-home plants to beautify yards and local gardens. The Nursery stocks over 100 species of plants that create attractive landscapes while they provide shelter and food for birds, pollinator insects and butterflies. Trees, > Read More
Princeton, N.J. — D&R Greenway Land Trust announces Wines for Preservation, in partnership with Old York Cellars of Ringoes, New Jersey. Three wines of the 2019 harvest are ready for purchase–a large percentage of each sale to benefit the land trust’s preservation and stewardship mission. The wine labels feature art by renowned local artist James Fiorentino, whose stunning landscapes come from the preserved lands of D&R Greenway Land Trust. This official collaboration with a New Jersey vintner is fitting, due to D&R Greenway’s preservation of more > Read More
BRIDGEWATER, NJ – Bridgewater Township has gotten back some of its most historic land, to preserve it for generations to come. The D&R Greenway Land Trust non-profit organization bequeathed the township 36 acres of land on Steele Gap Road at the Bridgewater Township Council meeting Feb. 27. The property dates back over 250 years, to the late 1700s and the days of George Washington and the American Revolution. The site was known in local annals as the Wemple Estate, and > Read More
Life has left Josephine “Jo” Allen with many battle scars, but she found healing in the land which once held turmoil for her. From 5 to 9 years old, Allen was a resident of St. Michael’s Orphanage and Industrial School in Hopewell. Closed in 1973, the orphanage’s land has since become the St. Michaels Farm Preserve — an area of more than 400 acres of farm fields and forests preserved in 2010 and expanded in 2017 by D&R Greenway Land Trust. Allen shared her > Read More
