Fall 2025 Issue of Fyke Newsletter

The Fyke Nature Association's quarterly newsletter is now available here on the Newsletters webpage.

Join, Donate or Renew Your Fyke Membership Online

September starts a new year for the Fyke Nature Association. You can pay dues and make donations to Fyke conveniently by mail, or online using any major credit card or your PayPal account, if you have one. To do so, please visit our Membership and Donations page. Dues and donations support the work the Fyke Nature Association does toward maintaining and improving the Celery Farm as well as the other services we perform for the community and our members.

Celery Farm Fall Planting

September 26 - September 28 and October 3 - October 5
Friday - Sunday, 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM

Volunteers Needed! As part of the Fyke Association’s ongoing habitat management of the Celery Farm, volunteers are planting over 2,600 native wildflowers and grasses at the Green Way Meadow by Phair’s Pond (#18 on the Celery Farm map). Come join us to lend a hand!

Christian Alcaide, Habitat Restoration Coordinator at the Celery Farm, outlines the plan for the planting in this video here. Information about the native plants for the Meadow can be found here. Information on volunteering at the Celery Farm can be found here.

Celery Farm Wish List

The Wish List on our website has items requested by the Fyke Volunteers who maintain the trails at the Celery Farm and have been doing the habitat restoration work of removing introduced non-native species and planting natives. Your donations to Fyke are the only source of funds for their projects.

Watch these Volunteer Interview Videos to learn more about the volunteer activities at the Celery Farm. Open the Wish List if you would like to donate an item.

Thank You, Wish List Donors Gloria Antaramian Monica Cardoza Margery Cleveland Carla Costa Bill Drummond Patty Finn Amy Griffin Enid Hayflick Sarah Hrynyk Tom Jaeger Joseph Koscielny Darlene Lembo Patricia Linard Tom Mitchell Nancy Motto Rochana Muenthongchin Heidi Petri Lisa Potash Helen Raleigh Catherine Shaw Cathy Squasoni Janet Terchek Cindy Waneck Jim Wright Leslie Young

For Returning Visitors
If you just want to see any recent website content additions and changes in the past 30 days, check out What's New And Different.

Support Fyke at Amazon.com through the Amazon Associates program. If you open the Amazon website using the button on our shopping page, each purchase you make at Amazon.com will help support Fyke.

Participate with others in recording when you first see different bird species each year using the Celery Farm Annual Bird Checklist.

Have fun keeping track of what you see at the Celery Farm using one of the options in our Self-Guided Exploration designed for all ages.

Read about the Celery Farm Habitat Restoration work done by our volunteers. Interested in volunteering? Check out our Volunteer Opportunities.

Follow the Celery Farm on Facebook, here.

Keep up with all the latest news about the Celery Farm and other local nature topics on Jim Wright's fine blog, here.

The Fyke Nature Association was founded in 1952 with the goal of saving undeveloped tracts of land in Bergen County, New Jersey, and establishing them as Nature Preserves. In one of the most densely populated areas in New Jersey, the Fyke Nature Association’s mandate of preservation and stewardship is of the utmost urgency and importance.

We offer educational programs and workshops of interest to people of all ages throughout the year. We also lead field trips to various locations in New Jersey and southeastern New York for birding, botanizing, and general nature study. We are an active and dynamic organization dedicated to conservation and environmental protection.

Contact Fyke:

Fyke Nature Association
P.O. Box 141
Ramsey, NJ 07446