Recent content by amf

Possibly a rose pogonia orchid. I've seen them on the pink side of the purple spectrum... not sure if this is their normal flowering season.

Had a snake fall out of a tree into my canoe (no, it wasn't a water moccasin! Cracks me up how folks swear they saw a water moccasin.). But the scariest was with my 6 yr old daughter. We were looking for blueberries outside of Atco, off on a sand road where Jackson Road bears to the left before...

Tobacco flowers make a nice addition to the garden, imo. There used to be a farmer outside Quinton who raised it commercially for a few years. I worked on a tobacco research farm one summer in college - after handling it for a day my hands would be black as tar. Vowed then to never inhale!

NIce pics! I think your cinder block 'well' may have been a cesspool - that's how my dad always made ours back in the day.

That was always my guess... there was a lot of ironstone as I recall. Looking at your high point reference, its kinda sad when so many of the highpoints are on landfills! amf

We used to go camping back in there when I was a kid... always called it 'Red Hill'.

Do you always use osmocote on your plants? Tobacco is a heavy feeder, but thats some hot stuff. I've always liked the plants. There was a farmer some years back outside Hancocks Bridge in Salem County who grew a field of it. Your chew recipe sounds good, but I vowed never to touch the stuff...

Great reference. I recall when researching land rights on salt hay farms along the Bay in Maurice River Twp NJ coming across a reference to a 'slave ditch'. Presumably it was dug by slaves, but who knows.

I believe the Burcham farm is (was?) a private bank benefitting their farm. The meadow bank companies were a different thing. The closest analogy I can think of is the acequia system of irrigation canals in New Mexico - really a communal undertaking. The landowners abutting a meadow would band...

Altho I am a bit late to this HERE party, having been pre-occupied with a move, my experience with anything Garmin or Navteq, while being excellent products, is that they exist solely to regularly extract money from your pocket. Good luck with developing your alternatives!

They have also been processed in Bivalve / Port Norris.

And there is a LOT of deep water! I've paddled from the bridge a good ways upstream, doing more paddling than walking.

As far at the park goes, I recall when you could paddle on New Brooklyn Lake, prior to all the development in the watershed. Still an impressive stretch of swampland extending up to Cross Keys Road.

Interesting the places that appear in red lettering on the map... in Salem and Cumberland Counties, there is the Seabrook Bulb Gardens and a place called Ivy Manor. I knew a farmer in that area whose home place was called Ivy Manor; never knew there was any significance to the name, and still...

I saw it for the first time at Craters of the Moon last summer. At that time I had no idea what it was... we really thought we were either hallucinating or seeing UFO's!