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Past WPA News
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"Your local park may feed you someday"
JC garden gets grant to be demonstration for others by Kate Rounds Reporter staff writer April 4 2011 The Washington Park Association of Hudson County recently received a $20,000 grant from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation to install a “permaculture learning garden and apprenticeship program” this year. The 22-acre park they oversee, located on the border of Jersey City and Union City, is part of the Hudson County park system. Here’s a 101 on permaculture: it’s an approach to designing human settlements and agricultural systems modeled on the relationships found in natural ecologies. Basically it’s sustainable land- use design. Its tenets include looking at a whole system or problem rather than addressing individual parts, observing how the parts relate, and solving problems using long-term sustainable systems. ______________________________________________________ February 2011 Winter planning sessions are completed and as we continue to improve our communication we will be transitioning away from our Yahoo Group list serve by the end of March. Please click on the MeetUp icon above and sign up to our MeetUp group site. Create topics for discussion, post document/photo files, and to be notified when our regular monthly meetings are in addition to committee meetings. |
November 2010
The WPA successfully mitigated conflicts with the community, Union City and Hudson County and are discussing the formation of a community visioning committee to work towards a cohesive landscape design for Washington Park. Union City has offered to include the WPA at all design stages for the proposal project in section 3, including designs which will give back to the entire community and not just those who play organized sports. Designs which include 100 new trees lining the streets of the park, pervious surfaces, irrigation systems using the grey water collected on the field, ADA upgrades, light/noise pollution solutions, changes in parking, traffic studies and looking for additional open spaces which can be purchased or reclaimed for area residents in and around Washington Park. ______________________________________________________ October 2010 The community surrounding Washington Park sought out the WPA to oppose Union City's Hudson County Open Space Grant proposal to build a 1.3 acre multi-purpose artificial turf field section number 3 of the park along Palisade Avenue btw Paterson Plank Rd and 2nd Street. The WPA voiced the concerns of the community and of the association at the Freeholder's meeting on Oct 28th, which launched the WPA into conversations with UC and HC about the proposal. |
