Early in the nineteenth century, an army colonel stood before a crowd at the Salem County Courthouse and ate buckets of tomatoes to prove that they were not poisonous. Ever since, the red vegetable of summer has played a starring role in New Jersey's history. Although, today, visitors to the state are more likely to see smoke-spewing factories than acres of farmland or grazing cattle, the state's legacy of agriculture and farming continues, and extends far beyond the popular Jersey tomato. In "Tending the Garden State", Charles H. Harrison tells the story of the state's rich agricultural...
Early in the nineteenth century, an army colonel stood before a crowd at the Salem County Courthouse and ate buckets of tomatoes to prove that they we...
