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Is this New Jersey life (#2)

Is this New Jersey life

Another trek to New Jersey

(A note about the previous post: I may have jumped the gun a bit on posting that image, but I want to provide a contrast between  the suburban home I grew up in versus the home I am building now, and about to move into. That image is still a couple weeks away, though!)
I am [...]

Point counter point (part 1)

NJ.

Visiting Twin Oaks

Today marks the end of my month-long visit in New Jersey. Tomorrow I’m off on the bus to Twin Oaks, an intentional community in rural Virginia. I’ve never spent time at TO before; in fact, I’ve never been to an intentional community other than Dancing Rabbit, so I’m pretty interested to see what’s going on [...]

world of difference

Raw milk cheese dairies in New Jersey

Today, I went to an organic farm in central New Jersey. Cherry Grove Farm sells raw milk cheeses, free range eggs, heirloom pork, and grass-fed beef and lamb. It’s amazing to me that something like this exists in central New Jersey (or anywhere in NJ, really), because of the insane development and land prices throughout [...]