For some, the difference between buying produce in a supermarket or at a farmers market is clear. The local product is usually fresher and tastier than something that was picked days or weeks earlier, ...

Keith Nevison visits Jen Naylor, owner of Sussex Farm, to see her garden, orchard and huge variety of birds - and learn how it all fits into her message of eating fresh, local and seasonal food.

Just as most funding for land preservation has dried up, Sussex County officials announced last week they had preserved one of the largest farms in Vernon Township. The 359-acre Coster Gerard dairy ...

It turns out the quality of life for sheep in Sussex County is not all that baaaad. Some residents, like Irene Zeberl, keep sheep as pets. Zeberl has 12 woolly sheep on her family's farm in Montague, ...

BYRAM TOWNSHIP -- A scenic 222-acre tract in Sussex County has been preserved for $4.2 million, successfully ending a four-year effort to permanently save the Hudson Farm Greenway in Byram Township.

Delaware has preserved more than 105,000 acres of farmland over the past 20 years, about a third of which is located in Sussex County, state agriculture officials recently announced. Yet the state’s ...

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