Category: Agriculture
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Farmers in market to draw customers
(Published by The Press of Atlantic City on Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009.) What’s an agriculture mecca without a major farmers market? It’s Vineland, at least for another year. But beginning in 2010, the city could be home to one of New Jersey’s most ambitious farmers market, and if so, it will be part of a […]
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`The market is dead’ / Spinach warning over E. coli contamination hits N.J. growers with sales drought
(Published in The Press of Atlantic City on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006.) Dan Graiff spent a beautiful Monday afternoon on a tractor, only to come off the field to hear more bad news: Another local farmers market had called to cancel its spinach order. “Right now, the field is sitting unharvested,” said Graiff, who grows […]
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State pays too little for farms in region, farmers say
(Published in The Press of Atlantic City on Sunday, Aug. 14, 2005.) FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP What’s a better investment: $3 million to preserve an 11-acre peach farm in highly developed Bergen County or $3 million to preserve hundreds of acres in Cumberland or Salem counties? Farmer Roger Ruske has been asking that question for years. He […]
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Rutgers spearheads N.J. asparagus revival
(Published in The Press of Atlantic City on Sunday, July 3, 2005.) LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP Call it the comeback crop. Once nearly wiped out, asparagus is growing strong again on New Jersey soil. Thanks to some clever and diligent cross-breeding by Rutgers scientists and the business know-how of a Salem County farm, New Jersey asparagus today […]
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Spuds now duds for farmers in N.J.
(Published in The Press of Atlantic City on Monday, June 20, 2005.) Farmer Abe Bakker calls it “The Fertile Triangle.” He also calls it the last bastion of the New Jersey potato farm. Here, in a small pocket of southwest New Jersey, 11 potato farms cluster together, lining a corridor from Shiloh and Stow Creek, […]
Daniel Walsh 