But here in this somewhat downtrodden former farming center in the southwestern belly of the state, the only municipal zoo in New Jersey may be on the line.
As reporters and photographers arrived in the village, a modest farming center of about 1,300 families, a powerful local landlord and former mayor, Ghulam Mustafa Watoo, gathered people in the town center and gave orders for journalists to be forced to leave.
As the seat of Hunterdon County in the southern part of the state, the borough also has a rich history as the farming center that, at the turn of the century, was served by the Central, Pennsylvania and Lehigh Valley Railroads.
The project is the first comprehensive oral history in the area and narrates East Hampton's evolution from a New England outpost to a fishing, whaling and farming center to a service-based economy.
It is, in fact, a community of 2,000 residents that has evolved from a stopover for travelers on the Kings Highway in the 17th century to a farming center in the 18th century to an important stop on the Delaware and Raritan Canal and the old Camden-Amboy rail line in the 19th century.
("Masseria" roughly translates to "farming center").
Plants are a sustainable resource for valuable natural chemicals best illustrated by large-scale farming centered on specific products.
A highland farming center of some some 30,000 residents, Badiraguato is the gateway to the "Golden Triangle," the poppy and marijuana-growing region between Sinaloa, Durango, and Chihuahua.
In 2017, she led an environmental project in the Kimberley Park neighborhood of Winston-Salem to provide a farming center to the community.
The country's largest agricultural producer, California's Central Valley is a 400 mile long, 18-county inland fruit and vegetable patch that is now suffering more than any other American farming center during the current recession.
