"All livestock sold for slaughtering purposes only." [Photos: Brian Yarvin] Walking through the calf pens at the Livestock Co-op Auction in Hackettstown, I spotted a few guys who resembled my idea of an all-American farmer. Soft-spoken, wind burned, and looking...
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"I want fresh stuff in the store, and I'd rather have my own." [Photographs: Brian Yarvin] Wedged in between offices and suburban homes, Abma’s Farm Market is one of the nation’s very few farms with a Starbucks practically on its...
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One dude. One acre. 100 varieties. This video features Dan Machin's one-acre farm, dubbed The Lone Acre, in Riverhead, Long Island. Machin focuses on diversity and companion planting—"using different plants to offset different pests and diseases"—and shows that you...
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There was an innocent-enough-looking link here on Serious Eats here the other day. It led to a graphic on the top twenty farmers' markets in America. When I saw that it showed that three of the top in the...
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Most people assume it takes a lot of land to be considered "a farm" but Stacey Murphy, founder of BK Farmyards in Brooklyn, can transform any backyard with at least 400 square feet and six hours of daily sun...
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"It was as if the blight and bad weather were a deep, personal secret." If you live in urban New Jersey and decide to head out to the countryside, you have several kinds of countryside to choose from. Down in...
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Not just a tree, but a whole farm, grows in Brooklyn. Former E-Trade marketing manager Ben Flanner and New York Botanical Garden educational director Annie Novak started planting a whole salad full of veggie crops atop a former bagel factory in Greenpoint in April.
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"Dairy manager Peter Kindel even had to turn down Martha Stewart’s request to bring her the milk at an off-premise farmers' market once." This week we decided to profile a Greenmarket personality: Hawthorne Valley (partly because we're obsessed with their...
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During my childhood in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, it was a tradition to go on a hay ride every fall at Abma's Farm, an over 75-year old family-run farm and market tucked away in the neighboring town of Wyckoff....
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If you’re anything like me, you have a pretty solid stereotype of a New Jersey farmer in your head—a windswept looking guy with an advanced degree in engineering who farms his 14 certified-organic acres along with his beautiful, college...
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