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Help NJ based America’s Grow a Row win $250,000

December 6, 2010 by Leave a Comment
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America’s Grow a Row is a North Jersey based volunteer organization that grows food to donate to food pantries. Through partner farms that donate land for crops and volunteers that plant, grow, and harvest the fresh food, America’s Grow a Row has grown immensely from its inception in 2002. It’s first year, America’s Grow a [...]

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Locavore odds and ends: The get right to it version

November 12, 2010 by Leave a Comment

Heading straight to the odds and ends today. America’s Grow a Row has one last volunteer opportunity for the season. They need volunteers on Monday, November 15th up at Peaceful Valley Orchards in Pittstown at 9:30am. It’s a bit up north – about an hour and a half drive from where I live, but if [...]

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Locavore odds and ends: So much to do this weekend it will be hard to choose

October 1, 2010 by Leave a Comment
The first of several cranberry festivals in the state is this weekend. Did you know NJ is the third largest producing cranberry state in the US?

Earlier in the week, I asked you for some recommendations for locally influenced restaurants in Philadelphia. Thanks for all the ideas. After getting some restaurant information, I asked my husband if he wanted to eat in South Jersey or Philly, and he said, “Manayunk.” So, the restaurants I researched will have to wait for another [...]

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