NJ’s minimum wage will increase on Jan. 1, 2026, the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development announced.

Local food banks are about to lose a key source of fresh, local produce after the Department of Agriculture ended the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program or LFPA. The program ...

A wallaby that escaped from a Gloucester County petting zoo on Monday was captured Tuesday near a local Walmart where he was also spotted Monday night. Rex, a small marsupial from the kangaroo family, ...

The federal government is joining the fight to assist a New Jersey farm that has been a fixture off the Turnpike for more than a century. A 175-year-old family farm in Cranbury (Middlesex County) is ...

When people are asked what a “small farm” is, they may base their answer on the number of acres or number of animals a farm has – and they often assume that there aren’t many of them. However, small, ...

Small farms have a pretty big advantage. They don’t need to ascribe to industrial means of growing. That means less tilling and fewer pesticides. The ability to have a regenerative operation is much ...