Published May 8, 2013 at 3:16 pm (Updated May 8, 2013) <\/p>\n
WANTAGE The Medicine Wheel volunteer group are hosting their fifth annual Medicine Wheel Celebration on May 18 and 19 with the Heritage and Agriculture Association, a friends group of Lusscroft Farm in Wantage.<\/p>\n
The two day event features local music, gardening workshops, tours, perennial plant sale, craft and food vendors, community discussions and more to support the continued growth and preservation of the gardens and historical buildings.<\/p>\n
Gardeners Paul Cardillo and Brian Hennessey installed a community garden, Medicine Wheel Garden, at the historical Lusscroft Farm area of High Point State Park in 2009.<\/p>\n
The Medicine Wheel group has given Lusscroft Farm and New Jersey a healing and growing presence, a living example of people and nature together, which is the Sussex county motto,\" said Hennessey.<\/p>\n
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Activities include a Garden Meditation, Dedication in the Sister Moon Garden, Spirit Hoopers, Garden Tours, a Plant Walk, workshops on Gardening and Mushroom Propagation, Round Table Discussions on Water Quality and Community Food Protection and an Open Mic with Poetry and Music hosted by Morning Door on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Plant sales, raffles and auctions will generate money for projects at Lusscroft Farm. The plant sale will offer native and deer resistant landscape, medicinal plants and herbs, heirloom and organic vegetables, fruits, berries and more.<\/p>\n
Sunday there will be a panel discussion on Living Art and Culture in Northwest New Jersey. Workshops include Compost, Mushrooms, Garlic as Medicine, Organic Fruit Propagation and tours of the Gardens. An afternoon of local music features Alex Phillips, Maribyrd, Jordan Koza, Maura Glynn, the Hawk Owls, Eric Waldman, Mike Lawlor with Friends and The Matty Carle Band.<\/p>\n
The Friends of the Medicine Wheel work with the Heritage & Agriculture Association, a Friends group supporting Lusscroft Farms buildings, trails in cooperation with the NJDEP\/Division of Parks & Forestry to restore historic Lusscroft Farm.<\/p>\n
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