Are We Biting the Hands that Feed Us?
New Jersey’s organic farmers weigh in on the state of their occupation in a survey conducted by the Organic and Regenerative Farming Board, the results of which offer insights and pathways to progress as well as conundrums in need of resolutions.
Growth Opportunities
A new board under the auspices of the Department of Agriculture is charged with the mission of supporting and advancing organic and regenerative farming in the Garden State. What are its plans and what can we all expect?
AFT to Award Grants to Farmers
Funds to help support the work of a wide range of farmers will be allocated through American Farmland Trust’s Brighter Future Fund. A heads-up: The application window opens July 1 and closes July 8.
Regenerative Restauranting
Everything old is new again at Finnbar, the reimagination of a landmark along the Delaware in Frenchtown, as a Hunterdon County-raised chef who won national acclaim at a pioneering restaurant of the farm-to-table movement takes charge of a kitchen where the dishwashers will have a river view.
Jersey Girl Cheese Open for Business
At the creamery at Hillcrest Orchard and Dairy in Branchville, the acclaimed cheeses are being made and sold onsite as well as at the farm’s retail shop in Rockaway.
Jersey Girl Cheese Shuttered; Revered Cheesemaker Pivots
The sudden closure of the Sussex County dairy where Sal Pisani has been making his classic Italian cheeses is prompting the prodigy to rethink and reimagine how he will ply his craft.
A Restaurant ‘Game-Changer’ Goes Front-Burner
Loosening the lock on liquor licenses in the Garden State would generate billions in economic activity and provide opportunities culinary pros currently lack. At a roundtable in Clinton, chefs and elected officials make it clear that legislation proposed by Gov. Murphy needs to be enacted now.
Breaking the Lock on Liquor
Can the Garden State come out from under the grip of laws nearly a century old that hamstring many of New Jersey’s most talented chefs? The governor thinks so – and so does one of the state’s top toques.
Landmark Restaurant Sold; Celebrated Chefs to Take Helm
Christopher Hirsheimer and Melissa Hamilton, nationally renowned proprietors of Canal House Station in Milford, will bring their seasonal home-cooking to the historic Frenchtown Inn.
Let Us Eat Home Bakes
As activists, the people behind the Great Garden State Home Baking movement focused on potential economic opportunities. As bakers and consumers, their big win this week has them pumped for the creative possibilities.
Evolution of a Revolution
Bobolink Dairy & Bakehouse’s pioneering owners mark another first: a pause