🌱 Farm Updates

What if part of your grocery shopping happened right on your kitchen counter? At Crop Stop, we're always experimenting with ways to make locally grown food a little more accessible, useful, and fun. One crop we've been growing lately is incredibly simple, wonderfully green, and surprisingly versatile: Wheatgrass. And, we're working on a new way to offer it. Rather than harvesting and packaging wheatgrass for you, Crop Stop will be offering living wheatgrass trays grown to ord

Running a small farm teaches you pretty quickly that nature gets the final say. You can make a production schedule, plan a farmers market, organize harvests, coordinate deliveries, and map out the entire weekend. Then, the forecast changes. This weekend was one of those reminders. With a nor'easter and significant weather in the forecast, farmers markets and outdoor events across the area began canceling. For small farms and other local vendors, a canceled market isn't simply

The Crop Stop Farm recently packed up a little piece of the farm and headed to Belleville High School for the Belleville Green Team's Green Fair. Along with some of our seasonal produce and freshly harvested microgreens, we brought something that sparked plenty of curiosity: one of the hydroponic growing systems we use at Crop Stop. Throughout the afternoon, community members stopped by to see the tower up close and ask questions about how hydroponic growing works. Could you

There is something especially satisfying about making tea from herbs and flowers that were growing in the garden just moments before. This late summer, we are giving one of our Crop Stop favorites, Front Porch, a colorful seasonal update. Our newest fresh-cut Front Porch tisane tea features: Butterfly pea flower Apple mint Lemon balm Pineapple sage The result is a fresh herbal infusion built around some of the most beautiful and aromatic plants currently growing at Crop Stop

This week, Crop Stop went to the farmers market, but not as a vendor. We went as a customer. You can check out our video footage of this visit on our Instagram page. After spending part of the day preparing microgreens for our latest CSA deliveries, we headed over to the Parsippany Farmers Market to visit some of the fellow vendors we have gotten to know this season. This time, there was no tent to set up, no table to arrange, and no Crop Stop products to sell. We brought a s

What if strengthening our food system started in our own backyards? When you hear the words food security, you may think about national agriculture, supply chains, grocery stores, government programs, or large-scale food production. Those things matter. But at Crop Stop Farm, we believe food security can also start much closer to home. It can start with a backyard. A community garden. A small urban farm. A neighbor growing more tomatoes than they can eat. A local farmer selli

The journey of your food matters, too. When we think about fresh produce, we usually think about where it was grown. But there’s another question worth asking: What happened to your food after it was harvested? For much of the produce sold through conventional grocery supply chains, the harvest isn't the end of the journey. It may be only the beginning. Produce can move through packing facilities, distributors, warehouses, trucks, distribution centers and retail stores before

If you've followed the news lately, you've probably seen headlines about produce recalls and investigations involving Cyclospora and other foodborne illnesses. While those investigations continue, they highlight something many people are thinking about: Where does my food come from? At Crop Stop Farm, we've always believed that trust starts with transparency. We grow our herbs, greens, and specialty crops right here in New Jersey. We harvest them ourselves, package them ourse