May 31 - June 7
It wouldn't be a stretch to say this cold, wet spring has left something to be desired. But here comes the sun, so take advantage of a schedule full of intriguing things for you and your family to enjoy. Or choose among dozens of natural attractions or outdoor activities suggested on our website. How can you complain?
Power Plants
For those in the know (and it's important that you know
before
you pick) the forests and fields of Northwest Jersey offer a visitor much more than a walk in the park. They are a veritable garden; Nature's garden of
edible and medicinal plants.
From the lowliest ground creeper to towering trees, each plant has some nutritional, chemical, edible properties, for better or worse.
Much more...
Open Book
Perennial garden and sundial at Well-Sweep
Discover the vital role herbs can play in your daily life at the Spring Open House on Saturday, June 2, at Well-Sweep Herb Farm. Enjoy a day of free lectures, presentations, and tours of spectacular gardens. Lecture topics include Favorite Kitchen Herbs, Dazzling Perennials, Native Wildflowers & Ferns, and more!. Special guest speakers include Lorette Cheswick (Bees & Butterflies - Blossom Banquets for Pollinators), Kevin Rushing of The Real Deal Bar-B-Q, and Kerry Adams, a practicing herbalist of 44 years. Well-Sweep's largest selection of herb plants will be available, and homemade refreshments can be enjoyed by all. Free admission and parking. Click or
call 908/852-5390. Well-Sweep is located between Hackettstown and Washington at 205
Mt. Bethel Rd. in Port Murray.
Take a Float on the Wild Side!
Heading upstream through the Refuge from Bassetts Bridge, the Wallkill is a corridor of beauty.
The Wallkill River shares with great rivers like the Nile and the Rhine the peculiarity of northward flow. From out of Lake Mohawk, it spills over a dam then becomes a stream, bubbling and rushing fast, seeming most determined to be free.
Big Bucks
If you like to hike in New Jersey, chances are you know Worthington State Forest. But few of the hikers, campers, canoeists, and nature lovers that visit Worthington realize that industrial pumps are responsible for the preserved wilderness and natural wonders that they enjoy there. Charles C. Worthington, a prominent and very wealthy New York socialite, sportsman, fisherman, and skilled rifleman, assembled this park in the late nineteenth century. He called it Buckwood Park. More...
Hacklebarney Heaven
Hacklebarney State Park is 892 acres of glacial valley, with gorges carved by the Black River and two tributaries that feed it, the Rinehart and Trout Brooks. The dogs play and we talk in celebration of meeting in these Robin Hood woods. We stand on outcrops jutting over the river and gaze in awe at the grass, moss and seedlings living in the rocks brought here long ago. Walk on...
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choose among dozens of natural attractions or outdoor activities suggested on our website. Northwest New Jersey and destinations just beyond those borders, in Pennsylvania and New York, offer brilliant ways to get out and enjoy the pleasures of the season.
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