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Gardening season kicks off with some real horsepower in Trenton
By Cristina Rojas/The Times of Trenton
on April 12, 2014 at 6:50 AM, updated April 12, 2014 at 6:51 AMTRENTON — It won’t be long before the first crop of vegetables and herbs begins to sprout in the Chestnut Avenue community garden.
Yesterday, groups of fourth- and fifth-graders from Village Charter and International Charter schools looked on as farmers prepared the soil for spring planting — not by hoes and shovels, but by real horsepower.
In an annual tradition to kick off the gardening season, two horses and a plow from the Howell Living History Farm turned the soil.
The farm horses have been coming since 1989.
“It’s a mix of delight and astonishment,” Isles urban agriculture manager Jim Simon said of the day.