“I know this sounds like one of those nice retirement stories,” said Halpern, 65, who ran a consulting firm for years. “But it isn’t.”
“We assumed he was a retired, gentleman farmer type of thing,” is how Brian Edwards, owner of the Bashful Banana Bakery & Cafe in Ocean City, put it the other day. He is one of about two dozen neighbors opposing the Halperns. “Just going to bottle some wine.”
Halpern says he’s required to suit up, always notifies the neighbors, and says the amount of pesticides he’s using is within allowable limits. He turned the conversation back to the vineyards themselves, which were undergoing winter pruning. He says they will produce 6-7 tons of grapes a year, which will yield as much as 5,000 bottles of wine.With his own winery unlikely for this season, he will sell the harvest to other South Jersey wineries. " New Jersey fruit is worth an awful lot of money,” he said.
They agreed they would not do weddings, festivals or private booking of the farm, and would not apply to change any of these restrictions for at least three years from opening. They stressed that the state agriculture laws allow for “on-farm direct marketing,” like a farm stand but also including a winery, and agriculture related education activities that include wine tastings and wine-pairing seminars.
Just up Route 9 is the Tuckahoe Inn, now at a dead end where the old Route 9 bridge used to be, and the sprawling site of the former B.L. England Generating Plant, recently sold to developers who envision a hotel, retail, restaurant and marina, once a $13 million cleanup is complete. “The tree farm was idyllic,” neighbor Karolann Kemenosh told the Upper Township Committee in that November meeting, which featured nearly an hour of complaints by neighbors. “It was absolutely magical to be next to a tree farm.”
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