April begins in the EJ Garden with fully planted raised beds filled with

  "More than 300 gardens throughout New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware –  flower gardens, vegetable gardens, community gardens, urban farms,  parks and more – vied for recognition in the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s 2018 Gardening and Greening Contest. The Ethel A. Jacobsen  Elementary School in Surf City was named a blue ribbon winner in the  children’s/school garden category, underscoring the work that students,  faculty, staff and community members have put in to the edible garden  beds, flowers, wildlife habitat, monarch way-station and rain gardens on  the school grounds."