Farming Asparagus in Fair Haven?
Native Fair Havenite Ken Lockwood sheds light on the crop that took over the area
"I remember when this was all farmland." You may recall, or have emblazoned in your mind, your parents or grandparents spewing this common "quit your whining" mantra that is akin to the old "we used to trudge uphill in the snow" speech. Well, they spoke the truth. A lot of the land we live on was farmland. However, we tend to think less of the Rumson-Fair Haven area as former farmland, but more a landscape that tells a different, riverfront steamboat travel era tale. It, indeed, was all that — and more. In a time when we are scrambling to get community gardens up and running and protected from deer interlopers, it's hard to imagine a Fair Haven or Rumson landscape full of crops — wild crops — of asparagus. Yes, asparagus, of all things. …
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Roslyn Bryan Rumson Nj
4:19 pm on Saturday, May 11, 2013
with all this rain the harvest should be excellent - good luck more ›