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Has anyone read The Jersey Shore: A Social and Economic History of the Counties of Atlantic, Cape May, Monmouth and Ocean? The most impressive South Jersey history happens to also be the most enigmatic. It is a formidable two-volume set – comprehensive, well researched, with lots of obscure...

Boyd, All the crops I mentioned tolerate frost, save the beans. A short growing season is one of those things you adapt to living in the Pines. Some of the more tender greens like Yu Choy, Choy Sum, and Taisai are bred for southern Asia, so might bolt early but are still tasty id picked before...

Mmm, San Marzano is a tasty plum tomato! Drip irrigation is needed for deep watering, but I still have to spot hand water from above to wet everything in drought. As a guy who studies soil I'm a big believer that roots and their environment are woefully underappreciated. Check out the figures...

May 14, 2016 Richland Plot– a local tradition! (foreground) Collards, Chinese cabbages (2 types), Chinese greens (12 types), lettuces (5 types), spinach, broccoli (2 types), cauliflower, spring raab, chard, scallion (3 types), snow peas (two types), herbs, daikon (3 types), garlic, and...

That's my girl! EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP — Alexis Demitroff hops in a pickup truck at sunrise and drives around the landfill. On the seat next to her a small revolver rattles inside a red bucket. She looks out the window until she finds what she is looking for — a bird. She points the gun in...

Held the second Wednesday – 7:30 PM – this May at the Fellowship Hall of the Presbyterian Church, 6001 Main Street, Mays Landing, NJ. 2016 • MAY 11 The Forgotten Colony of Estellville Carl Farrell The presentation on the Estellville or Burbridge ethnic settlement was delayed a month due to...

Bright Blue Lakes https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/bright-blue-lakes.6437/#post-76742

Unexpected was where the ancient Blue Anchor trail (Cumberland Furnace to Buena to Inskeeps Ford) split off at a spung to cross a beaver dam on Marsh Lake Branch. If you went due west instead turning north towards Piney Hollow you ended up at Blue Bell Tavern (c.1761) on Tuckahoe Road and...

Oops! So busy I forgot to add the most important part to the above post, that we've all been hoodwinked about Vikings on the Hudson, but the thread was a good excuse to talk about Holder's find.

Al, Agreed, hand pruners work best as you can control where the cat o' nine tails will end up. In a pinch (pun intended), you can strategically snap the woody part of greenbrier's stem between your thumb and index finger and hook the whip like velcro on neighboring tangle. Also, once you get...

In Spring there was always a contest at Richland and Milmay Schools to see who could spot the first Robin of the season. Once one was spotted, the teacher would go to the piano and belt out "Wise Johnny," Little Johnny-jump-up said, "It must be spring, I just saw a lady bug And heard a robin...

Bob, As you know I have much interest in recording the loss of shallow groundwater throughout South Jersey due to over-withdrawal by urbanization. Too often we ignore or dismiss the collective memory of a place. I like to use local knowledge to commemorate the drying up of wetlands like spungs...

Way cool! Maybe some of the ancient accounts of Delaware River Swedes finding old buried foundations and wells had merit, as well as accounts of the war-like, blue-eyed Indian clan of Mullica River lore. One Cumberland County artifact still haunts me as the real deal. Jim Holder, a roofer...

I would read the Courier Post when environmental writer Larry Hajna was present, even though that paper really didn’t cover Atlantic County. He left in 2006 to become NJ DEP’s Press Officer. Sadly, it is increasingly difficult to find local papers that have critical-thinking reporters who cover...

My municipality, the one that initiated Pinelands precedent-setting redevelopment, didn’t fare too well according to NJ Spotlight; at least when compared to other Atlantic County municipalities. During the period 2010 to 2015, only troubled Atlantic City had a higher tax change (+31.1% v...

This thread brings to mind a dear old friend from Green Creek, down Cape May way, Lyman Hoffman. Note his name as reporter of some of the big trees on the State list. A banker by trade, Lyman by avocation was a champion of outstanding Down Jersey trees. His inspiration came from a 1949...

Plants never cease to amaze us; re-sprouting 800-year-old squash seed is quite a feat. David Gilichinsky of the Russian Academy headed a team that sprouted 32,000-year Silene stenophylla, an arctic relative of Pine Barrens campions (starry – S. stellata; white – S. latifolia; fire-pink – S...

https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/cumberland-county-stones.10240/page-5#post-130268 State Troopers and Coroner's Staff, Richland – September 17, 2015 I have yet to hear an explanation of who or why. S-M

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South Jersey residents hear boom, feel shake http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/south-jersey-residents-hear-boom-feel-shake/article_3eebda3c-c5ee-11e5-94f5-07735cc23e30.html Five shocks have shaken my house, at 1:23, 1:30, 2:02, 2:17, and 2:21 PM. They are not long gentle rumbles like the...