Tag: Pennington Quality Market
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Local farmer pivots farm business to create firepit starters after economic toll from COVID-19
Local tenant farmer Tama Matsuoka Wong has partnered with the Friends of Hopewell Valley Open Space (FoHVOS) to sell wild cedar firestarters in order to maintain her farm assessment, when her business of supply restaurants with speciality ingredients took a hit due to COVID-19. Prior to the pandemic, Wong farmed and foraged at the Marshall’s…
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Hopewell Valley families, seniors in need receive aid from neighbors
Families in need during the novel coronavirus outbreak are receiving support from the Hopewell Valley community through a recently launched mobile food pantry program. The program has been in operation since March and aids valley families and seniors with food insecurities. Hopewell Township, Hopewell Borough and Pennington are the municipalities that make up the valley.…