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New Jersey Monthly Magazine
Farms

All You Can Pick

Self-pick farms offer more than apples, pumpkins and produce you gather yourself. From hayrides to corn mazes to pie tastings, they fill fall days with family fun. more

Sun Screen with Dogs

This bundled silvery cloth, gorgeous in itself, is used to reflect excess sunlight from the roofs of greenhouses at the farm of the Chili Goddess, Janie Lamson, in Rosemont, Hunterdon County. The dogs go with the property...

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Greenhouse Alley

These greenhouses, used by the "Chili Goddess" to shepherd pepper and other seedlings through the winter, shimmer...

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Ball Hound

I had the pleasure of meeting a dog recently who could play cornerback in the NFL, even though his ball of choice is a basketball. This dog, Jack, who lives on a chile pepper farm in Hunterdon County, likes to chase after a kicked basketball--the harder it is kicked, the better--and bring it back, all in the blink of an eye...

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