NJ Farmland Preservation in Action

Nice story via NJ.Com. The New Jersey Conservation Foundation enabled the Truszkowski family to keep their 139 acre dairy farm in Warren County running. Conservation funds were used to buy-out siblings who had no interest in farming after the owner died. The farm now belongs to the one son who wanted to keep farming the [...]

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Improving NJ’s Ag & Food Complex – Thoughts on the Transition Team’s Report

After reading through Governor Christie’s transition team’s report on agriculture over the weekend it is clear that the Governor and many of his key advisers view New Jersey’s agriculture and food industries as key parts of New Jersey’s economic life. Governor Christie’s transition team recommends a reinvestment in the State Department of Agriculture and rightly [...]

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Recap: Slow Food’s Winter Farmers Market in Princeton

So we took a ride out to Princeton today to check out the farmers market at D&R Greenway Trust held in conjunction with Slow Food NJ. The market was held at D&R’s Johnson Educational Center, a beautiful restored farm that once served as a working barn on the Robert Wood Johnson Estate. It’s a great [...]

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Farms, Open Space Preservation and Business Development: Perfect Together

New Jersey’s critical issues are intertwined. Not only must we diversify our economy so that we don’t continue to be overly dependent on the pharmaceutical and financial services sectors, we need to create jobs, we need to preserve open space and we need to eat and source more local foods. Between 1971 and 2002 New [...]

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Published in triCity News Yesterday

One page essay on climate change, local agriculture, economic development and coastal Monmouth county. Unfortunately they don’t publish online so you’ll just have to hit your favorite, bar, coffee shop, restaurant or other hangout to pick up a copy.

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