The New Jersey Farmer Archives
Marté turning ag ventures into business trips
OLD BRIDGE, N.J. — John Marté knew in high school the farming life was for him. Now 22, has been working as a contract combine operator at large farms around the Midwest. Marté’s mother, Theresa, can be found weekends and most weekdays minding the farm...
Paillex able to start up new AGAR operation
CLINTON TOWNSHIP — After years of providing food for the needy, Valley Crest Farm and Preserve is now part of America’s Grow-a-Row, another non-profit group that supplies food pantries with fresh produce.Chip Paillex, founder of AGAR, discussed the new...
Area you-pick operations bracing for busy season
Each fall from New Jersey to Virginia, hundreds of summer weekend you-pickers swell to thousands as apples and pumpkins, like the leaves of trees, color farms that straddle as many as 250 acres or more. The months-long Super Bowl of Mid-Atlantic...
Knoxes, first-generation farmers, thrive in third home
LIBERTY CORNER — Jon Knox, 35, had an introduction to farming early in life — in his backyard.“His mom had a one-acre, little garden plot,” said his wife Kim. “She used to can and jar everything. Growing up, he had tractors.“He said he didn’t grow up...
McCanns’ farm preparing to enter its eighth decade
MONROEVILLE — Anita McCann and Nancy McCann Foy both recall the day.McCann’s Farm sells everything to consumers at farmer’s markets. Via these venues, they meet regular customers. One customer in the mid-2000s would often visit to buy some fruits and...
Decline of public breeding (Editorial)
Public plant breeding programs are declining across the United States.A Washington State University recently surveyed 278 public plant breeding programs around the country. Public programs are chiefly federal programs, such as those run by the USDA, or...
Spontaneous combustion (Animal Science Update)
(Editor’s note: Michael Westendorf is with the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University.) When environmental temperatures reach the highs they have for much of this summer, there are risks of spontaneous combustion of hay...
Third generation at Drake Farms reflects on land’s evolution
SKILLMAN — Drake Farms is nestled between Routes 206 and 518 here, and as development pressures have increased going west on Route 518 toward Hopewell, Ringoes and Lambertville, so has his farm’s deer problem. As a consequence, Drake has focused his...
Christmas tree farmers witness imminent condominium development
LOPATCONG TOWNSHIP — The contrast is startling. The cozy stone 1700s farmhouse belongs to John and Cynthia Curtis with a hill of Christmas trees on one side of Route 22 and faces giant warehouses almost up to the right-of-way. Just past the trees, a...
Pivot turns out to be fruitful for Pettyjohns
ABERDEEN — Marcus and Nora Pettyjohn had to do something.COVID-19 had hit, businesses were suffering, some shutting doors permanently, and their own Samaha’s Farm market was temporarily shuttered.Nora created a www.samahasfarm.com website where orders...
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