Come visit Br. Jerry's Garden, a community garden of the St. Anthony of Padua Community and our Cramer Hill neighborhood at 29th Street and River Road in Camden!

This Year's Photos

Kristen leading the gardeners meeting.

We'll ask one more time.  Who wants to volunteer???

Can you believe it's Camden?

Journey to the center of the repollo.

Harvesting the best.

Grown with love...

...in Camden.

Let's motion this table.

A new garden taking shape next to Br. Jerry's Garden.

Never too young.

This thing is wacky!

Cabbage patch guys.

From Notre Dame with Love!

Victor y Garden.

Buy a plant!

Thanks for the love!

Let's roll!

St. Anthony's students in the garden.

Ready to irrigate.
 

2010 Photos

 
Mike and Gladis: Ho Ho Ho at the Camden Children's Garden.

Some of our Br. Jerry's Gardeners at the Camden Children's Garden.

Thank you Camden Children's Garden and Americorps!

Yum yum!

Kristen leading the group in reflection.

Let us pray.

Lettuce pray!

End-of-the-year garderners' gathering.

Chips!

"Es nuestra!"

Take one!

Peace, brother!

Getting near the end of the harvest.

Wheee!

"Which way do we go?"

Thanks to Campbell's Soup for the help!

All you need is...

Harvest the best!

Thanks for the help!

"Dump it right here!"

More compost!

Lift up your hearts!

For a video of the Fox Morning Show broadcasting live from the garden, click here.

Sue Serio broadcast the Fox Morning Show live from Br. Jerry's Garden on Wednesday, September 1.  For a video clip, click here.

Sue Serio interviews Kristen.

Sue interviews Mike Devlin, Executive Director of the Camden Children's Garden.

Our newly painted community garden bulletin board.

When did you start using size husky?

Jeff shows Sue one of our unique Camden plants.

Sharing the harvest!

Jeff and Mike behind the grill at the Camden Children's Garden, for the Camden Garden Club's Faith Based Garden Barbecue!

Yum yum!

Our Franciscan Volunteers enjoying a great meal and a beautiful day.

A nice turnout for Cleanup Day in Br. Jerry's Garden.

High five!

Check out the white eggplant!  (Come to think of it, shouldn't eggplant be white?)

You missed a spot!

Got it!

Thanks to all our volunteers who showed up (and who helped us meet the Van Challlenge too!).

Harvest the best!

Roll out the barrow!

Thanks to Jeff and the Camden Children's Garden for all their work in Br. Jerry's Garden!

Ooh, the vegetables!

Packaging just some of the harvest from Br. Jerry's Garden.

Handing out our organic tomatoes, from Br. Jerry's Garden.  Some for our parishioners, and some to distribute to friends or neighbors in need.

Equal Exchange, fair trade coffee goes great with organic tomoatoes!

Nice combo!

Service with a sonrisa!

Romero Center visitors know that it's all about the love...

...and the veggies!

The tomatoes are ready!

"Read up, gardeners!"

Kristen and Donna admiring our new notice board.

Ready to sprinkle, thanks to a grant from Holy Name Province (the Franciscans).

Kevin and his melon trellis.

Melon time!

A visit from the friars of St. Francis Inn in Philly and Siena College.

More irrigation = less irritation.

Nelly knows beans!

Mike Devlin (in cap) of the Camden Children's Garden, leading a tour of Br. Jerry's Garden for the SAFSF (Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders), who were in Philly for their 8th annual forum.

This year's forum was titled "Shaking it Up, Making it Last: A Real Food System For All.  We're glad Br. Jerry's Garden is shaking it up, and making it last!

Josh, of CCOP (Camden Churches Organized for People).  CCOP helped us get the old trailers removed from the property so we could start the garden.

Everything grows with love!

Josh distributes part of the harvest to the Cramer Hill CDC (Community Development Corporation).

Josh with our Notre Dame Summer Service Learning Program interns Will (left) and Max (right).

If you're gonna get blessed, you're gonna get wet!

One of our younger gardeners!

Mrs. Dhanaraj, Norma's Mom, gets some greens.

  A wonderful turnout as we dedicated our community garden and renamed it "Br. Jerry's Garden."

Br. Jerry's family attended the dedication.

Thanks to Josh and Norma for designing and painting the hope-filled sign for Br. Jerry's Garden.

Chris leads a decade of the rosary at the garden dedication.

Luz, using our new p.a. system, leads a decade of the rosary.

"Holy Mary, Mother of God..."

Lydia, ready to pray.

St. Anthony's students love the garden!

Checking the lettuce.

Installing the sign, just in time.

Looking forward to a great summer of gardening.

Josh with Mike Devlin of the Camden Children's Garden, speaking with a reporter about the draconian state funding cuts to the Garden.  To get involved, call Mike at 856-365-8733.

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Josh (our Franciscan Volunteer) with Jeff from the Camden Children's Garden.

Getting plants from the Children's Garden to take to our community garden.

Gladys and Mike of the Children's Garden chatting with Martha.

On Saturday, April 17, we gathered in the basement of St. Anthony of Padua Church to view and discuss the film "The Garden."  You can see a preview at http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi978912025/

Did we mention there was food???


And a lively discussion?

There is interesting information about community gardening on the web, for instance a Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_gardening

Br. Jerry's Garden was made possible through the efforts of many people and organizations, most notably the Camden Children's Garden.  Please see their website at http://www.camdenchildrensgarden.org/community.htm

Our community garden is seen in the new literature of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (the 4th largest foundation in the world, by the way).

Click here to see it!

Our garden is in photos 3, 4, 7, 8 and 9.

2009 Photos

A great harvest!

Steve (an alumnus of Genesis Farm), with Lupe and our garden's namesake, Br. Jerry.

 
See how it grows!

Love and Peace in our community garden.

Want to know what the land where our community garden looked like not too long ago???

Yes, these abandoned, graffiti-covered trailers, formerly used as a police substation, were a community eyesore.  Thanks to Camden Churches Organized for People (CCOP) and our youth group Close to Christ (CTC) for getting the Camden Police Department and Department of Public Works to have them removed to make way for our garden!