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New Jersey Museum of Agriculture
Home » New Jersey » New Jersey Attractions » New Jersey Museum of AgricultureThe mission of the museum is to tell the story of the Garden State's agriculture, past, present and future. The New Jersey agriculture is about hard-working men and women whose innovative ideas changed and continue to change the destiny of a state and affected the quality of all our lives. In the museums south wing is the exhibition Fresh From the Field which focuses on the six most economically significant crops in the state, apples, cranberries, blueberries, tomatoes, corn, and potatoes, as well as a display about packing crops from markets. Artifacts include an apple picking scoop, three legged picking ladder, cranberry cleaner, hand powered seed planter two row seed planter and a horse drawn potato digger. Also on display in the museum between the cranberry and blueberry portion of the exhibition is a live colony of twenty-five thousand honey bees in the Giant Observation Beehive, the largest in the Northeast. It was placed between the blueberries and cranberries because these crops depended upon the honeybee pollination. There are artifacts associated with the beekeeping industry also on display. There is a lot more artifacts and things to see in the museum. This is a good family activity that everyone would enjoy.
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