Rancocas Creek Farm
New Jersey, the most densely populated state in the union, has preservation programs of substance and importance to all. A preserved farm on the edge of the Pinelands in Southampton, shepherded by farmer Jeff Tober, is a model for maximizing agricultural production while strengthening and preserving the ecosystem.
Fortnightly 5
Farmed, Foraged, Fortified: 5-23-22
It’s not surprising that tapping sources closest to our lands yields the best-tasting eats. That’s the way it’s been the past two weeks, with favorites showing direct ties to people, place and process.
Smart Shop
Duke Farms Farmers’ Market
A seasonal market in Hillsborough with a diverse cast of quality vendors is where you need to go for the freshest ingredients that make meal-planning simple and optimally nutritious.
Rolling Hills Farm
For the next few years, there’ll be something new as well as something old for farmers Stephanie Spock and John Squicciarino, as they work to remediate the East Amwell acres that will be the farm of their future while growing in Lambertville the organic crops their customers enjoy year-round.
Spring Run Dairy and Creamery
Creamline, non-homogenized milks come straight from a small family farm that’s purposefully preserved in Alexandria Township. Sarah and Dan Lyness, the farmers in charge, are part of a new, emerging generation of young farmers in the Garden State.
Sunday Kitchen
Spring Garlic: Memories of a Calcotada
River Lea’s new crop is a very worthy substitute for the calcots grown in Catalonia, Spain, so get it while it’s available and bring something new to your Memorial Day cookout menu.
Kinney Community Garden
Barbara Weiland is building a village in Newark, a village of people – mostly kids – who farm and feed from a once-abandoned lot. Mike Peters' images from spring’s official Planting Day show and tell how the involvement is total.
Walking Bird Farm
The era of the full-service farm is here, on acres in Egg Harbor City steeped in heritage and nurtured by a couple with respect, vision and a steadfast commitment to community.
Baker to Baker
Jenny Belliveau, A Butter Life
Welcome to Baker to Baker, our new monthly column featuring Martha Rabello, our baking columnist, talking shop with a fellow practitioner of the pastry and baking arts. First up, Martha visits with Jenny Belliveau – and we learn how sour cream and Miles Davis figure into her craft.
Food Find
Carol’s Chocolate-Peanut Butter Cups
To eat one of these chocolates is to leave Earth. Temporarily, but oh so happily.
Chef Train
Nick DeRosa: Publick House
The chef behind the standout in Mountainside might be both established and underground, according to his selector to the Garden State’s elite Chef Train club. But word is spreading. And, with a new butcher shop and a second restaurant on the way, his star isn’t just rising, it’s rocketing.
People
RampFest 2022
All-pro chefs, home cooks, foragers and fun-seekers converge at the home of a culinary instigator and his cohorts who never miss an opportunity to celebrate a micro-season.
Keeping House
James Beard owned and cooked and taught classes in a lesser-known, but arguably more important home than the famed base for his namesake foundation. It’s a home that merits much more than its relative anonymity.
Prime Time for CSAs
New to the idea of Community Supported Agriculture? Looking for an organic farm to buy a share of its harvest? Our guest writer, Devin Cornia, executive director of the New Jersey chapter of the Northeast Organic Farming Association, rounds up a list of farms with available CSA shares.
What's Brewing?
‘Bridge’ Beers
Four City, Cape May, Little Dog, Jersey Girl and Bradley Brew Project are making what our columnist loves to drink right now.