Common calendar, Packet papers, March 5
Common calendar, Packet papers, March 5
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Central Jersey SCORE, a non-profit resource partner of the Small Business Administration, is looking for volunteers to assist people looking to start a business or grow an existing small business.
The organization is recruiting business owners and executives, both current and retired, who want to share their experience and knowledge with today’s up-and-coming entrepreneurs.
The Central Jersey Chapter of SCORE serves Middlesex, Somerset and Hunterdon counties.
Central Jersey SCORE provides in-person mentoring and webinars, both offered virtually in line with current pandemic restrictions. In addition, the SCORE website offers tools and templates on a wide variety of topics and numerous online courses and webinars to assist small business owners through every aspect of business development and management. Services are offered free of charge.
First cultivated blueberry crop in US, by Elizabeth Coleman White of Whitesbog, NJ
When it comes to cultivating blueberries for the commercial market, Elizabeth Coleman White is the undisputed queen. Working with Frederick Vernon Coville of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, White grew and harvested the first crop of cultivated blueberries in 1916 on her family’s cranberry farm in Whitesbog. That’s the first cultivated crop in the United States and most likely the rest of the world.
White was not an unlettered woman. After graduating from the Friends Central School in Philadelphia, she went to work in the bogs helping supervise cranberry pickers at her father’s farm. She continued her education during winter months, taking courses in first aid, photography, and millinery among other subjects at Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry (now Drexel University).
A brief history of cultivated blueberries
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Michigan is one of 10 states that cultivate 98 percent of the country s commercial blueberry production.
It was once thought that wild blueberries could not be cultivated successfully.
But in the early twentieth century, a New Jersey woman named Elizabeth Coleman White reached out to a botanist named Frederick Coville to see if they could change that. She provided the labor and land and he the advice and in 1916, they produced the first cultivated blueberry crop in the world.
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