August 1st: First Friday is Movie Night on the Farm! 5pm-9pm

Blue Moon Acres hosts First Friday at the Farm Market – August – Movie Night on the Farm! Friday August 1st, 5pm-9pm Bring your blanket, chairs, and coolers of food & drink to picnic next to our organic flower field while watching two films (TBD) on the projector screen. Unionville Vineyards wine, Amwell Valley organic…

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8 Tips on How You Can Live Locally

Wondering what steps you can take to become more aligned with your local community and environment? Erica Evans, Beginning Farmer Program Coordinator at NOFA-NJ, shares with us 8 ways you can live locally. 1. If your municipality allows, raise your own chickens. In my own hometown, I participated in many town council meetings advocating for…

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How to Make a Simple Salad Dressing

One of the perks of working for Blue Moon is free greens. During the spring and summer, this means salad for at least one meal a day for me, every day of the week. A challenge (aka an opportunity for improvement) I face is keeping my salads interesting. How do I do this when the…

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Top Five Most Influential Women of Modern Farming

For most of its long and inglorious history, farming has been a male-dominated profession. Women may have played vital roles, but ownership and decision-making was the exclusive domain of men. According to a recent USDA report, however, that trend is rapidly changing. Over the last three decades, the number of women-operated farms nearly tripled. Currently, around…

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Living Local: Find Your Community

How can you make an impact on your local community? What impact does community have on the local food system and sustainability? Chuck Minguez of Door to Door Organics and Jeanna Kane of the Doylestown Food Co-op explore what it means to live locally. Chuck encourages people to go out and join in the change…

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A Few Good Bugs

It’s high summer and your garden is struggling—again. Your tomatoes and peppers and cucumbers have succumbed to beetles, cutworms, aphids, and slugs. You refuse to use pesticides (you’re a good person and you care about the environment) and you just don’t have time to pick these pests off one by one. You’re ready to toss…

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June 22: The Farm Roll

  Blue Moon Acres hosts The Farm Roll Sunday June 22nd, 8am-4 pm Scenic bike tour of areas farms, vineyards, and open spaces to benefit the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed. In partnership with: Jake Herway’s NJ Bike Tours 8:00am-9:00am Registration/Check-In 9:00am-1:30pm Rides and Farm Tours 1:30pm-3:30pm After-Party at Blue Moon Acres with live music, farm-to-table picnic, wine sampling, and…

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June 6 First Friday Event in Pennington

Join us Friday evening in Pennington for a First Friday Open House. In-store gallery featuring the works Hopewell Valley Regional School District’s Advanced Placement art class. Live music with the soulful Jim Arkus and samples with a local food producer. Complimentary snacks, beer, and wine. Stock up for the weekend and have fun while you’re…

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Spring Mix, from Seed to Plate

Let me first state that Spring Mix is just that- a mix of different lettuces and greens, not a certain type of seed or name of a plant. Some of us (*ahem. Myself*) not familiar with farming and growing things may not have known this. Now that we’ve got that cleared up… I hope you’ve…

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