Late Spring on Chickadee Creek
May 15, 2012Giving Thanks for a great 2012
November 23, 2012In the NJ Spotlight
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Check out Chickadee Creek Farm in this NJSpotlight article!
(NJSpotlight/Photo by Amanda Brown)
After graduating from Cornell University with an ecology degree, Jess Niederer ditched the research lab in favor of a new workspace: New Jersey farmland.
“I wanted to do something that had an instantaneous connection to people,” she said, “and feeding them seemed like a straight line.”
And, she said, she missed the family farm she grew up on in Pennington.
That was 2006. Now, as the head of Chickadee Creek Farm, she grows organic produce and flowers on land her family has tilled for generations.
Read the complete article by Annie Knox here.
