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1. Paul 'Duce' Tallamy of Wantage named N.J.'s 2012 Outstanding Young Farmer
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... At their farm in Wantage, they offer pick-your-own strawberries, cut flower and pumpkins and USDA-certified all natural beef. Joy Tallamy runs class trips and farm education tours and they host yearly ...

2. Halloween 2011: Safety tips for trick or treating
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... toys. Also, remember that many children have food allergies to peanuts and dairy products. • When carving pumpkins, kids should not be allowed to use knives, its best to let children clean out the pumpkin ...

3. Halloween recipe: The graveyard cake
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... Dark and Stormy Death Punch, Spicy Cheddar Witch Fingers, Worms in Dirt, Swamp Chili, Ghostly Lemon Pops and Chocolate Mice and Minced Spiced Pumpkins. A super spookily delicious recipe good enough to ...

4. Pumpkin seeds recipe: How to bake, roast and cook
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... source of protein and vitamin K. Historically, pumpkins and their seeds were a celebrated food of the Native American Indians who treasured them both for their dietary and medicinal properties. They ...

5. Last minute Halloween costumes 2011: 'Pan Am' over 'Jersey Shore'
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... art of pumpkin carving has become too trivial. Nardone “took back the ritual,” although in a somewhat deranged manner, in his site extremepumpkins.com. Pumpkin carving winners for 2011 shown on the site ...

6. Halloween happenings in New Jersey
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... Show Fall Festival in Egg Harbor City, October 8-9, celebrates the harvest of pumpkins with more than 100 artists and craftsmen, the South Jersey Pumpkin Weigh Off, live bands and more. http://www.sjpumpkinshow.com/, ...

7. N.J. using mosquito-eating fish to gobble bloodsucking Jersey skeeter
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... its own version of Navy commandos - mosquito-eating fish. They are Gambusia, fathead minnows, freshwater killifish and pumpkinseed sunfish. And they have big appetites — at least when it comes to mosquito ...

8. Spicy pumpkin soup recipe makes a smashing starter
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BY MARGARET MORGAN NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Did you know that pumpkins, aka squash, are full of cancer-preventative nutrients, are high in fiber and beta-carotene? With farmers markets flush with an abundance ...

9. It is the season for pumpkin beers
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... pumpkins in batches of beer. It was a style Owens thought would appeal to customers, so in 1985 he and the brewery staff used a 65-pound pumpkin in the mash to create the first batch of what was then ...

10. Fall food trends that are fun and funky
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BY MARGARET MORGAN NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Specialty food makers are going nuts this fall with fun and funky foods – squash, pumpkins, sweet potatoes are cropping up in salsas, pasta sauces, crackers, ...

11. Lawrence gallery artists celebrate home this month
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BY PAT SUMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM October — the month for cornstalks, pumpkins and mums; for harvesting summer's bounty and starting to think about cozy nights by the fire. At home. That's where ...

12. N.J. beekeepers lost 35 percent of their colonies last winter
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... said. "Honey bees are vitally important to agriculture for pollination of crops such as blueberries, apples, cranberries and pumpkins." Schulze was present at a Bee-ginner's Beekeeping class, offered ...

13. Pumpkin pound cake recipe spices up the season
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BY ANGELA DAIDONE NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM October is, of course, pumpkin season. And I have been fortunate enough to have the right conditions in my garden to have grown very large pumpkins the past ...

14. Perfect Fall getaway: Uncovering N.J.’s covered bridges
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BY ERIC MODEL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM JOURNEYS INTO NEW JERSEY The idea was an easy one — just tell folks about covered bridges in New Jersey. You know, since it's now fall — time for pumpkins, colorful ...

15. New Jersey town caught growing marijuana on High Street
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... Jerseyans, when you talk about the fall harvest, they are not talking sweet Jersey corn or plump pumpkins. It's pot. Enter Millville, New Jersey ... a quiet town of about 27,000 residents and about ...