"rangerssuck" wrote in message
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On Dec 29, 11:08 am, "Ed Huntress" wrote:
"Wes" wrote in message

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"Ed Huntress" wrote:

It's hard to imagine farms in Lodi. I used to work in Saddle Brook,
right
up
the street. No farms now, pard'.

Oh, by the time we were visiting, the farm was long gone. As I said,
they
didn't read and
the notice that their property was going up on tax sale was not
understood. Grandma in a
small house on a remaining bit of the property. The date they had the
farm was most likey
in the 1920's.

Wes

Yeah, the '20s sound reasonable. Lodi is in that packed area of population
that makes NJ the most densely populated state in the nation. I'm on the
extreme southern edge of that sprawl. A mile from my house is a county
park
with a small lake that's completely surrounded by development. But when my
uncle moved here, in 1948, he used to hunt rabbits with his beagle and
his12-guage, down in that swamp that is now a lake.

It's sad to hear about you're family's little farm. Bad things happen like
that.

--
Ed Huntress

My brother lives on 2 acres in Monmouth County. When he moved there 20
or so years ago, he was surrounded by woods. Now he's surrounded by
townhouses.

I just had a talk with a guy who owns one of the last remaining farms
in New Paltz, NY. He said the neighbors give him poisonous looks,
wishing he would sell so they could build more McMansions.

Every time I drive through Sussex County, NJ, I'm saddened by the
declining number of farms and the increasing number of huge houses.

And they call that "progress."

I call it "sprawl."

My parents' last house in Princeton (actually in Rocky Hill) was surrounded
by woods and farms, as late at the late '70s. I could walk to Rock Brook,
which was a trout stream in the spring. Now it's all developments. If you
live long enough, I guess you see it everywhere.

There are no chickens anymore, in the neighborhood where I was born in
Vineland, either. There are still lots of low-roofed houses, though, if you
know what I mean. d8-) (Chicken coops converted into houses)

--
Ed Huntress