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Local Scout Plants Pizza Gardens at Urban Farm

This 7th grader is working toward her silver award

The Urban Farm at Lafayette is a popular place for scout projects. Recently, Morristown Girl Scouts spent some time at the farm painting and decorating a chicken coop they donated with profits from their cookie sales.

Another girl scout is working toward her silver award and spent last Thursday planting two pizza gardens.

Jane Hiscano of Troop 1693 is a 7th grader from Madison. Some of the items she planted for her pizza garden included tomatoes, parsley, oregano, rosemary, basil, onion, bell peppers and more.

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“We bought the seedlings at a local plant sale,” said Hiscano. “It was going to be either a pizza garden or a salsa garden. With salsa, we would only have a few ingredients to grow. With a pizza, you have a lot more options (and toppings).”

Her father, who was there to assist her, has two gardens of his own at home and has passed his green thumb to his daughter.

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“I like to garden. That’s where I got the idea,” said Hiscano. “I’m going to donate the (produce) to the interfaith food pantry or the community soup kitchen.”

Her mom also is involved with Grow it Green Morristown, which is where this Madison resident found out about Urban Farm.

Grow it Green Morristown created the Urban Farm as an agricultural teaching garden for the Morris School District students and the produce from the garden will be donated to the District and to area food banks.

Hiscano added that some of the other girls in her troop are going to plant flowers around the farm. 


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