A little late this year but Chris Mattern - former owner of Eclipse Brewing - will do a seed exchange at Eclipse on Saturday, April 4th from 12:00 until 1:00 p.m. You don't have to bring a thing. Unless you want a beer. Then you have to bring a way to pay! Swap seeds, seedlings and network with members of your and neighboring communities from your own garden. Participants are encouraged to bring seeds

Our winter 2026 Merchantville Maple Sugaring project is in the #SeedMoneyChallenge! Please help us reach our goal! Last winter Incredible Edible (IE) Merchantville was chosen as a HUB for the Stockton University's Maple Project and we collected and boiled 600 gallons of sap producing 150 6-ounce jars of syrup. Funds from this year's 30 day campaign will allow us to retrofit a "sugar shack" in our park, refurbish our evaporator and

Merchantville's Maple Project is up and as of 2/2/25 the sap is running. We have 10 volunteer teams collecting from 49 sugar maple trees on municipal property and 4 additional trees on homeowner property. Volunteers are checking buckets daily, collecting the sap daily while it's flowing and pouring off into 5 and 6-gallon storage buckets beneath the back deck at the Community Center. They check sap for any risk of spoilage to make sure it is clear and odorless. If it has a cloudy or yellow appearance, a foul odor,

IE Merchantville is proud to be a hub for the Stockton Maple Project in South Jersey and looks forward to engaging more tappers and sap collectors this year! Join us at the Community Center on Saturday, January 24th, for a Maple Syrup Workshop & Tree Tapping Event. Learn from project leader, Lindsey Brown, how the environment and ecosystem benefits from the sustainable practice of Maple syrup production through encouraging the preservation

We are fortunate to have quite an inventory of maple trees in Merchantville, many of which are suitable for sap tapping. Today, two members from Stockton University's Maple Project, Matt Olson, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, and Lindsey Brown, lead for the maple hubs, walked the town with Joan Brennan and Kathy Manetas members of Incredible Edible's Merchantville Maple Project to number and tag trees for the 2026 maple sugaring season.

On Saturday, February 1st, Merchantville's Maple Project held it's initial workshop and Sugar Maple tapping event. Over 65 adults and kids attended the session lead by Lindsey brown and Debbie Sommers fro The Stockton University Maple Project. The Stockton Maple Project continuously offers educational workshops to members of our local community and to educators in P-12 schools that incorporate science, sustainability, and reciprocity - a Native American and ecological concept focused on returning resources