WELCOME TO THE GARDEN STATE!

INNOVATION

1. Medicinal Uses of Plants and Herbs
2. Lenni Lenape: The First Agricultural Innovators
3. Gentlemen Experiment With Farming
4. Crop Innovations and the “Blueberry Queen”

PRODUCTION/ CONSUMPTION

5. The Revolutionary War Creates Demand
6. The Food Processing Revolution
7. Jersey Fresh and Buying Local
8. Ethnic Diversity and Consumer Choice

LABOR

9. The World Wars and Labor Shortages
10. Enslaved and Hired Farm Labor
11. Migrant Farm Labor

LAND

12. Agricultural Land Anchors Early Towns
13. Agricultural Land as Social Welfare
14. Urbanization and Suburbanization Alters Agriculture
15. Land Use and the Environment

PRESERVING AGRICULTURE FOR THE FUTURE