Preserved farms are safe from development but not from the larger real estate market If the preserved land gets too expensive for farmers to buy, the land may fall out of agricultural production, defeating the purpose of preservation…Before the reces…
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What’s in Season from the Garden State: Orange is the New Black Friday
VonThun Farms of Monmouth Junction, NJ, is a regular vendor at the Highland Park Community Farmer’s Market every season. As the days grow crisp and fall is in the air, VonThun’s end their participation in the community market, even though the market is open for many more weeks. Did they run out of produce and […]
Northeast Cooperative Extension Directors Honor Rutgers Program
A Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) Cooperative Extension program designed to conduct research and outreach programming on the marketing and production potential of new ethnic crops for East Coast farmers was honored at the annual meeting of the Northeast Extension Directors held July 8 at Cornell University. The program, An Integrated Multistate Research […]
Growing Ethnic Vegetables in the Garden State
Research Focuses on Specialty Crops Fresh fruit and vegetable consumption has been on a steady decline but a wave of health conscious consumers and the growing “eat local” movement have provided some measure of optimism. In certain states like New Jersey, another wave of consumers of fresh produce is immigrants from other countries who bring […]
