Rain gardens reduce flooding, enhance nature, and beautify communities.
Photo Credit: Dave Chalek
Rain gardens are great for our communities, environment and properties. Furthermore, people create rain gardens almost anywhere. The Hackensack Environmental Justice Alliance (EJA) plans to install a community rain garden at Hackensack High School on June 1. This will be part of a community event the Northern New Jersey Community Foundation (NNJCF) is co-hosting with Greater Bergen Community Action.
Come and join us! Help create the garden. Learn how you can make your own rain garden. More information will be available soon. The EJA is also a part of the NNJCF’s Green Infrastructure for Environmental Justice program.
- Learn more about what rain gardens are, and why they are so good for us and the environment.
- The public may also receive updates about this and other green projects in Hackensack. The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation invites people to sign up and get involved with the Green Infrastructure for Environmental Justice program.
- NNJCF seeks to raise $5,000 to make the community rain garden better for Hackensack High School students and the neighborhood. Please help by donating to the rain garden.
Partnership Announced With Hackensack Public Schools
A rain garden will be created at Hackensack High School.
NNJCF wishes to thank our newest partner, Hackensack Public Schools, for working with us on the rain garden.
In a February resolution supporting the partnership, the Hackensack Public Schools district said, the rain garden “is consistent with the goals of the District, creating not only an aesthetic and sustainable living piece of artwork for the enjoyment of the District and its visitors, but also to create a learning opportunity for the District’s students in the design and maintenance of the rain garden, which is aligned to the Science Curriculum.” For further information, contact Executive Director Leonardo Vazquez at 201-568-5608 or nnjc@nnjcf.org.
