GWF Workshops
  On Two Pond Farm
  176 Weaver Road
  West Milford, NJ
2024
 

Judy DeJosia

I’ve been gardening and directing gardening projects for over twenty years. This included being a middle school garden director in which I transformed a 4,000 square foot abandoned quad area into a full-scale organic vegetable garden and outdoor classroom.   I also have experience as a community garden director overseeing two community gardens with over 60 gardening plots. During that time, I have developed a love for learning about food, growing food, and helping others discover how food can be a foundation for growth in all areas of life.  In my search for understanding the health benefits of growing and cooking my own food, I have received my holistic nutritionist certification from AFAP and started my business - Growing With Food

I meet Allison over ten years ago and she invited me to see the farm.  It wasn’t long before we became good friends and started presenting farm to table workshops.  Most recently I have created a kitchen garden on the farm to demonstrate gardening on a smaller, yet highly productive, scale. I have also built another large garden area ready for planting, and there's another larger one in the works!

Together, Allison and I, bring a unique perspective to this new series of workshops.  We have lots of stories, expertise, and experiences that we are excited to share with you.

Allison Hosford

Allison’s love of organic gardening and spinning wool began when she was in her early twenties, living in an apartment in Boston. At 29 she was transferred to New Jersey with her job. She moved to two pond farm (before it was a farm) and began gardening and raising sheep, pigs and chickens for eggs on a small scale while working in corporate America full time. 
Then she met Roger. Together they took on farming as their life time pursuit. In addition to raising chicken for eggs and organic vegetables, they farmed with a team of draft horses for a while, bred sheep for wool and meat and raised turkeys for meat for decades. Roger built barns, they converted to solar power, erected a greenhouse, set up a sawmill, converted to heating with an outside wood fired boiler and put up and then moved fencing over and over. She and Roger attended workshops, read anything they could, picked peoples brains and continually learned as much as they could about growing organic vegetables and raising animals while treating the land responsibly. 
After retiring Allison dove into organic vegetable gardening and watercolor painting.
They currently raise and sell chicken for meat and eggs, custom raise pigs for pork, sheep for wool, and organic vegetables, plants, seeds, and compost.