Fall Farmer’s Markets

The freshest food, directly from and supporting of SWAG and other local urban and family farmers (Couer et Sol, Green Community Garden, Rabbit Hole Farm, Old Village Farm) Tuesday 12pm-7pm, East Orange City Hall Plaza Thursday 11am-4pm, Newark Beth Israel Hospital Lobby

Farm and Market Now Open

Hello Again, South Newark! — Our farms at 343 Meeker Ave + 438-440 Peshine Ave are now open for the summer! Check out our social media on the contacts page for updates about all the great things happening. Or stop over and say hello, and discuss how you can be involved in changing yourself, your …

Happy Holidays from SWAG

SWAG Project Pilot CSA 2015

SWAG Project is super excited to announce its 2015 trial CSA program that lets us bring you a fixed box of beautiful fall veggies! Please see the overview below,and contact us to join the program! How our CSA will work Our CSA or Community Sourced Agriculture share program will run for 5 weeks, starting in October and …

Summer Farmer’s Market Season

Join us for Operation Cleanup

Operation Cleanup – Love your neighborhood and your city! Please join our community partners at Newark SAS on Saturday, April 25, 2015 for a neighborhood cleanup celebration in honor of Earth Day!   Nobody likes to live in an area filled with trash and all types of pollution so this year we’re collaborating with local communities, faith institutions and businesses to …

Open Positions at SWAG Project

The SWAG Project farm team is excited to offer various seasonal internship opportunities this growing season to students and community members interested in taking an initial step into the world of urban farming and community development. Please see the list below and attached descriptions. – Communications + Social Media Intern: Communications Internship_SWAG 2015 – Market + …

#FundSWAG Fundraising Push

Thanks to all of you dear friends, family and partners who donated yesterday to help SWAG Project create stronger communities through food. Because of you we raised over $700 in donations yesterday alone. This pushed us past our halfway mark of $3000! Please continue to share our fundraiser throughout the next month.  We have until the end …

Heros in Our Backyard!

Last year, SWAG Project was chosen by ioby as one of their 2014 Hero projects. This lovely video, made by Good Eye Video, gives an overview of our community development and local food project and it’s goals. We are incredibly thankful to ioby for highlighting our work, for helping us raise funds to continue making …

Give Green + Support SWAG for #Giving Tuesday

Today is #givingtuesday your chance to give back! Please consider supporting SWAG Project sustainability campaign! Find us here (http://bit.ly/SWAG_IOBY) on the IOBY site and read all about our plans for 2015. Give today with an ioby gift card from Groupon and they will match your $10 donation! Use this link: http://www.groupon.com/deals/ioby-1 to get the Groupon giving card, or go directly to the SWAG Project page below. …