Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Tending the Garden State: Preserving Agriculture in New Jersey

Author: Charles H Harrison
Stars: 4
Review by: Mandy Apgar


This covered a few things quite well and had a pretty decent scope. (Although it does state the myth of the colonel eating supposedly poisonous tomatoes at the Salem County Courthouse.) It features the state's agricultural history and culture - how various indigenous tribes farmed, stereotypes about New Jersey's road and farming industry and how they are just that (stereotypes), main products and produce, evolution of farming equipment, even a very nice section on how developers are gobbling up land left and right. It even went into several of the main regulations governing acquisition of the land and how companies find sneaky ways to underbid and get the property for much less than its value.
 

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