Start Your Day with GSWA

Harding Township — Great Swamp Watershed Association’s popular breakfast briefings resume on Tuesday, September 14 with “Fall Gardening Tips.” Join guest speaker Mike Bucek from Green Path LandCare to learn how to put your lawn and garden safely to bed for the winter. Green Path LandCare is a Chatham-based family-owned and operated business that helps beautify landscapes, reduce chemical pollution and simplify lives.

Rounding out this fall’s breakfast briefings series is a presentation on Tuesday, October 12 by the Rutgers University junior class in landscape architecture on “Social and Physical Landscapes of the Great Swamp Watershed,” where the students will report the initial findings from their recent inventory of landscapes in the Great Swamp watershed. Then on Tuesday, November 9, Kirk R. Barrett, Director, Passaic River Institute at Montclair State University will present, “The State of the Passaic River,” a discussion on issues facing the Passaic River, a source of drinking water for more than a million people.

Each breakfast briefing will take place from 8-9:30am at the Great Swamp Watershed Association’s offices at 568 Tempe Wick Rd., Harding Township (next to Jockey Hollow). A complimentary continental breakfast will be served. Donations are gratefully accepted. To learn more and pre-register, visit www.greatswamp.org or call 973-538-3500 x22.

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Founded in 1981, the Great Swamp Watershed Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and protecting the water and land of the 36,000-acre watershed region in Morris and Somerset counties. The organization works to maintain the beauty and health of open space, and to monitor and protect five streams: Loantaka Brook, Great Brook, Primrose Brook, Black Brook, and the Upper Passaic — which feed into the Passaic River and providing drinking water to more than a million people.
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