Next time you have your morning cup of coffee, thank bees! Coffee beans depend heavily on bees for pollination. So do avocados, almonds, onions, apples and many berries. We’re probably most familiar with [...]
Hunterdon Land Trust Land Steward Kristin Winters hands Lea-Jade a steel weed wrench. Even though the device weighs about 15 pounds and stands 39 inches high – more than half the height of [...]
Our holiday Farmers’ Market has a number of special treats in store for you: a new vendor, a special guest and the return of Phillips Farms! Make sure to join us at [...]
Ninety-eight acres of mostly pristine, verdant forest untouched by churning plow or digging backhoe, and undisturbed by hungry deer … in New Jersey? A rare occurrence indeed. And, what’s best of all, these [...]
Partially hidden beneath the fallen branches, dried leaves and detritus near the Walnut Brook that courses through the Dvoor Farm lies a gold mine of information about the land’s history in the [...]
A Murder on the Farm Oct. 7, 1803 doesn’t appear particularly noteworthy if one peruses Philip Case’s day book entry for that date. But that Friday was anything but typical at Case’s tannery [...]
The Case Farm Tannery On Nov. 11, 2018 our Farmers’ Market Second Sunday program series featured a presentation on tanneries and the 1803 murder in the farm house basement. In this blog post, [...]
By Ron Subber ‘Tis the season … It seems like it was just spring a few days ago, and now pumpkins are everywhere and thoughts of carved turkeys and eggnog are not far [...]
Who says you can’t get great local food in the winter? The Hunterdon Land Trust’s winter Farmers’ Market kicks off its sixth season on Sunday, Dec. 2 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. [...]
The Hunterdon Land Trust is helping spread a little holiday cheer with the preservation of the 127-acre Charlie Brown Christmas Tree Farm in Holland Township. The farm, owned by Randy and Charlie Brown [...]