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I have to put a good word in for Bagliani's Market in Hammonton. I was there last week and the place was well stocked, their quality exceptional, and the service staff great. Ciou!

R-F350, Tobacco was grown on a commercial scale here in the Roaring Twenties. During World War I, Walker (of Walkers Forge) partnered with Decker to form the 20,000-acre Waldeck (Walker-Decker) Farms Company between Richland, Milmay, and Buena. The intent was to grow a domestic source of...

Wildland, Cains, if memory serves, are associated with Ilifftown Plantation (c.1735) on Babcock Creek adjacent to Mays Landing. Cains first worked a mill above Mays Landing, and moved to Collings Lakes in search of new timber stands. The works that broach on the early Cain history are on loan...

OJG, If amended, sandy soils are some of the most productive soils in the world. The first thing to do is get a soil test kit at the local Cooperative Extension office for accurate lab results. Normally at this point I would rant and rave how great alfalfa meal is as a topdressing. However, the...

How does the garden grow? Winter was incredibly warm this year, and we were able to pretty much continuously harvest crops. We're about two weeks ahead of schedule here as far as planting goes. A. Collards (front) and Chinese mustard greens (specifically Serifon, back) are still providing...

There is a bit of confusion between three Hammonton-area places associated with the Chew family. The location you are thinking of, Chewtown, is not the twelve-hundred-acre Weymouth Tract Exception D (Gloucester County, in Book D.3, page 224, &c). Weymouth Farm and Agricultural Company, 1856...

W, Sorry for the slow reply. Like much of the Pine Barrens, the early history of Folsom is difficult to figure out. Two excellent books are must reads, taking us from the 1840s settlement by Germans on the edge of Weymouth Furnace lands. Chalmers, K.H., 1951: Down the Long-a-Coming...

Ironstone was a poor-quality ore that was used in last resort. It had to be broken up first in the stamping mill, and was higher in silica than other bog or meadow ore forms. As I understand, the use-preference hierarchy—best to worst—was iron scum to loam ore (mud) to seed ore (scale–pebble...

Wow Uuglpher, eating pink clay to citing Shakespeare over problems in paleogelisols—hot dog! AMF, your observation of pink clay collecting in broad, shallow depressions is consistent with my thoughts on the pink stuff's origins. The Aura soil there has likely survived a couple cold episodes so...

Check out this old post: https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/the-mutha-of-all-cedars.2011/page-2#post-17590 Also see: Cook, G.H., 1857: Geology of the County of Cape May, State of New Jersey. Trenton, NJ: Office of the True American. pp. 75–83. Federal Writers' Project, 1938: "Cedar...

OK, The thought on Ice Age processes at work here goes something like this. At the end of a cold period during a frozen period—not necessarily the last one—iron (Fe) precipitated-out due to a moisture interphase. That oxidized (rusted) iron accumulated at a place where there was a soil textural...

Oh, why do you think I might know something about cryoturbated Liesegang banding attendant with nondiastrophic thermokarst involutions generated through permafrost-related gelisol degradation dynamics during Late Pleistocene sub-epoch climate amelioration? S-M

Manumuskin, DeepXplor, Good news indeed! The Holly Farm is a treasure. There once was a holly museum there that sold the best tasting "holly honey." Bees were kept to increase berry set, in support of Christmas bough production; to deck halls with... Here's an old link to a post about the...

Darn it Boyd, why did you put that wink emoji! That is more compelling than a double dog dare from Jeresyman. The high points in both landscapes are old river bottoms where gravel deposited or ironstone formed. They are the East Coast equivalents of buttes out West...

Here are a couple of older posts that might dovetail to this issue: https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/driverless-atv-seen-on-route-18.6190/#post-73782 https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/pointing-to-folsom.7970/#post-94552...

I tried to track down the author, but sadly he passed away up in Bergen County. "Kevin Wright, a quintessential New Jersey historian and indefatigable champion and protector of New Bridge Landing, Bergen County’s cherished Revolutionary War site, died Thursday at Hackensack University Medical...

A Century of Forest Stewardship in New Jersey 1905-2005 www.newtonnj.net/pdf/NJParks_Forest05.pdf

Boyd, I am in awe of the monumental handiwork! My schedule has been hectic through June, so I only just now found down time to play with this resource—and, wow, I’m glad that I did. The array of maps provide a formidable imagery record for all Pine Barrens enthusiasts to explore; from the...

The article is about an old ironstone wall that recently tumbled down, revealing a fascinating exposure that provided a rare opportunity to see Bridgeton’s Ice Age inheritance. The record as to when the wall was built is unclear, but the structure may have been built as early as 1825 when...

Bob, As you might imagine the rendering process could be quite dangerous, as pine wood and its pitch are flammable. Protection from combustion by contact with an open flame and free oxygen was paramount to success. Tar kilns were often built at the heads of small streams, which were cripple...