Barrington Green Team

08/29/2026

Help support our local food pantry! 💚 One way to care for our neighbors and reduce food waste is to regularly go through your pantry to look for items that can be donated. Make it routine— once a week/month/season! It’ll help you make space and catch items before they expire.

🥫❤️ Help Us Stock the Barrington Food Pantry!

This Sunday, volunteers will be outside ShopRite in Lawnside from 8:00am –1:00pm collecting non-perishable food items and gift card donations to support our Borough Food Pantry.

Our pantry helps feed dozens of local families and is also what we use to keep our Little Food Pantry at Deere Field stocked for anyone in our community who may need a little extra help.

If you’re doing your grocery shopping Sunday morning, please consider picking up a few extra non-perishable items or a gift card and dropping them off with our volunteers on your way out. Every donation, big or small, makes a difference!

🏛️ Can’t make it Sunday?
Food and other donations can be dropped off anytime at Barrington Borough Hall inside the double glass sliding doors off the parking lot.

💵 Want to make a monetary donation?
Checks can be made payable to “Borough of Barrington” with “ABLE” written in the memo line and either dropped off or mailed to Borough Hall.

Thank you for continuing to support our food pantry and helping us take care of our neighbors right here in Barrington! ❤️

08/28/2026

BACK-TO-SCHOOL GARDEN CLEANUP 🎒📚🌿
The Green Team will be at the Avon Pollinator Garden this Saturday (8/29), 8AM - 11AM. 🌼🌿🦋🐝 If you're in town, any amount of time you're able to spare is greatly appreciated!!! If you have 30 min or can stay the whole time-- we can use your help! Kids welcome!

Volunteer sign up link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050C4CACA92CA4F49-64835504-totlot #/

Supplies: We have gloves (sizes for adults and kiddos) and small hand tools available to borrow. Please indicate on your sign up if you need to borrow supplies, so we can plan accordingly! Volunteers should bring water and are welcome to bring their own gardening gloves, knee pads, and/or tools.

Address: 862 Mercer Dr, Haddonfield, NJ 08033 (go to the parking lot located along Avon Rd-- the garden is located in the school yard!)

08/25/2026

We picked up the most beautiful Cardinal Flowers from Pinelands Nursery today!!! 🌿 Stop by our table at Summer Nights tomorrow to take one home for FREE (while supplies last). This vibrant native plant does well in a variety of conditions and supports hummingbirds and butterflies. 🆒🦋 We'll also have LED night lights, yellow LED outdoor lightbulbs (insect-friendly), and LED bike lights all thanks to our partnership with PSEG and Sustainable Jersey. 🌱😎 Plus free mosquito dunks thanks to Kyle Wright's Lawn Care LLC!!! 🪣🦟🚫

➡ Learn more about residential energy efficiency programs from PSE&G: https://www.energyoutreachnj.com/Barrington/

➡ Learn more about the Mosquito Bucket Challenge: https://homegrownnationalpark.org/mosquito-bucket-challenge/

08/18/2026

Tonight! 🦋

Help protect one of nature's most incredible pollinators!
Join the Camden County Board of Commissioners and the Camden County Certified Gardeners for Save the Monarch, a FREE family-friendly event celebrating the Monarch butterfly on Tuesday, August 18, at 6 PM at the McLaughlin Norcross Memorial Dell in Haddon Heights. Learn about the Monarch butterfly through hands-on activities, face painting, food, and family fun.

The evening's highlight will be the release of 400 adult Monarch butterflies, and attendees will receive a free milkweed plant while supplies last to help create Monarch-friendly habitats at home.

Register here: https://sparkcreative.wufoo.com/forms/z10ng5ee1ici450/

08/18/2026

Join us for one of our favorite community events of the year— Summer Nights on Wednesday (8/26)! Thank you to Barrington Civic Association for letting us join the fun! 🌼

☀️ SUMMER NIGHTS IS BACK! ☀️

Come out and join us for our annual Summer Nights event next Wednesday, August 26 at 6pm at Wish Upon a Star Park!

This FREE family fun night is held in loving memory of the late, great Barbara “Miss Barb” Bunting, whose impact on our community continues to live on.

Bring your family, friends, and neighbors and come spend a summer evening together with us! There’s no better way to celebrate the end of summer than with some good old-fashioned community fun.

📅 Wednesday, August 26
⏰ 6:00 PM
📍 Wish Upon a Star Park
🎟️ FREE!

We hope to see you there! ☀️❤️

08/15/2026

It’s a beautiful morning at the Tot Lot Rain Garden!!! Our volunteers will be here until 11am if anyone has some time to spare this morning or if you want to come and learn more about this hardworking garden! 🌿

08/15/2026

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED ‼️ Rain Garden Cleanup: Saturday (8/15) 8AM–11AM.

If you have any time to spare tomorrow your help would be greatly appreciated! Many hands make light work... and fun! Meet new plant friends, spend some time outside, and learn more about this hardworking garden. ☔️🌼🐝

Sign up and find more volunteer opportunities here:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050C4CACA92CA4F49-64835504-totlot #/

08/14/2026

More helpful info for planting your fall vegetable garden! 🧄🥕
August is New Jersey's second planting season. As spring peas, early beans, garlic and bolted lettuce finish up, the beds they leave behind can carry an entire second harvest of cool-season crops well into October and November.

Right Plant, Right Place is the fundamental gardening principle of selecting plants based on their specific environmental needs—light, soil, water, and space.

Rutgers Cooperative Extension has developed a Fact Sheet on planning a vegetable garden: https://njaes.rutgers.edu/fs129/

08/14/2026

Helpful tips from the Camden County Certified Gardeners! 🧄🥕
For August: Planting your fall vegetable garden

August is New Jersey's second planting season. As spring peas, early beans, garlic and bolted lettuce finish up, the beds they leave behind can carry an entire second harvest of cool-season crops well into October and November.

Continue reading:https://mcusercontent.com/c65143aee4c268b8d9a432dbf/files/e28b8727-042f-3915-9dd5-2f3b86a2e2e2/The_Savvy_Gardener_Aug_2026.pdf

08/13/2026

Interesting info from South Jersey Land & Water Trust:

Dragonflies vs. Damselflies! 🧐 "Spend some time near a pond, a stream, or any fresh water source in New Jersey and you are bound to be visited by either a dragonfly or a damselfly. With their quick wings and sharp movements it can be hard to see them until they delicately come to rest on a blade of grass or small branch. If you are exceptionally lucky you may even have one rest on you for a few moments.

While they can be a large insect you shouldn't fear them as they are one of the best helps we have in the fight against mosquitoes! As one of the most successful hunters in the animal world, dragonflies should certainly be considered your friend. But did you know that these aerial acrobats actually spend most of their lives underwater, sometimes for years compared to their adult lives of weeks? As a juvenile (nymph) they look very different from their adult counterparts."

Learn more about these wonderful insects: https://www.sjlandwater.org/post/your-land-water-for-july-2026?blm_aid=3564548

Photo credit: https://www.farmersalmanac.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/dragonfly-vs-damselfly.png