Chickadee Creek Farm
Pics from 2011
Pics from 2011
An inside view of the frantic pre-market set-up! Opening day was fantastic – wonderful weather, great vendors new and old, awesome music (thanks Craig!), and the steady stream of the market regulars as well as new faces just finding us. The market is held every Saturday from 9am-1pm at Rosedale Mills on Rt 31, Pennington.
By R. Kurt Osenlund With her new business, Chickadee Creek Farm, Pennington farmer Jess Niederer is growing fruits, flowers and vegetables on her old stomping grounds.
When Jess Niederer decided to take the natural resource management and ecology education she received from Cornell University and redirect it into “something with a more tangible benefit,” where she could “interact with people” and “provide them with something,” she didn’t need to look very far. Born and raised in Hopewell Township, Jess grew up on an 80-acre farm on Titus Mill Road, where her father, Steve, still grows crops to this day. Six acres of it is now Chickadee Creek Farm, the independent, organic farming business Jess founded in March. Read the complete article here.