Editorial: N.J. organic farming is showing encouraging signs of growth
July 11, 2014
Farmer Jess on the Mid Atlantic Grower Cover
July 12, 2014NJ’s Secretary of Agriculture Visits Chickadee Creek Farm
New Jersey’s Secretary of Agriculture paid a visit to Chickadee Creek Farm. State secretary Douglas Fisher toured the farm and talked with farmer Jess about her involvement in the state’s community supported agriculture program.
Read about it in the Trenton Times, here.
Organic Hopewell farm impresses state Secretary of Agriculture
HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP — Jessica Niederer, who attended Cornell University, didn’t always intend to carry on the family farming business — she wanted to be a scientist.
At some point on the way to her degree in ecology and environmental biology, however, she realized that she wanted to work outside and decided to give up the laboratory to become a 13th-generation farmer.
Now, five years into operating her own organic farm, Chickadee Creek Farm, on 17 acres she is renting from her father in Hopewell, Niederer is starting to gain recognition for her accomplishments.
Read the full article by Brendan McGrath here.
