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.
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.
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.
Bobolink Has the (Great) Meats
The acclaimed dairy and bakehouse in Holland Township is known for its cheeses, its butter, its breads and other baked goods. But did you know its shop also offers a wide selection of meats from animals raised and grazed on the sprawling family farm?
Oldwick General Store Enters New Era
The structure may date back to 1750, but new owner and star chef Sam Freund plans to fuse the best of old ways and modern ways as he takes over a true community meeting place astride Tewksbury farm country.
Oldwick General Store Enters New Era
The structure may date back to 1750, but new owner and star chef Sam Freund plans to fuse the best of old ways and modern ways as he takes over a true community meeting place astride Tewksbury farm country.
From Fruits to Nuts
In lectures freewheeling and filled with common sense, organic growers both professional and back yard received expert guidance on cultivating a wide range of crops at NOFA-NJ’s annual winter conference. In one afternoon during the two-day program, five speakers keyed in on the fruits of their own labors.
Ben’s Commandments
An architect by trade who sees both food and shelter as “the staffs of life,” Ben Walmer and his fellow foragers and chefs love to gather and collaborate at Whittemore, a unique preserve in Tewksbury Township where community, culture and conservation converge. The Peasant Wife’s Chief Photographer Mike Peters spent last Sunday with the swashbucklers whose culinary celebrations are in tune with nature’s doctrine.
Flying High
Hawk Haven Vineyard & Winery is all about “doing it right” and “putting it out there right.” Todd and Kenna Wuerker, the husband-wife team behind the wine-grape farm in Cape May County, will settle for nothing less than top-tier estate wines – and never accept the status quo.
Swine + Brine
Pork and oysters are South Jersey. And nowhere is that heritage given more respect than at a “meeting” of culinary minds and professionals at Sweet Amalia Market + Kitchen in Newfield.
Wine & Brine
The Winemakers’ Co-Op and Sweet Amalia Market + Kitchen are collaborating on this terroir-driven, high-style tasting that pairs Co-Op members’ estate-grown wines with five courses spotlighting the lauded Sweet Amalia oysters sustainably farmed on New Jersey’s Cape Shore Flats. It’ll be an afternoon dinner to remember.