Beach Plum Farm, and you’ll want to make time
to check it out on your way to the beach. Visit with a host of wandering chickens, gather provisions for your beach house or pack a picnic to be enjoyed from your beach blanket. This is also a good place to buy gifts for foodies back home.
140 Stevens St.; 883-327-6268, beachplumfarmcapemay.com.
The ocean beckons
By now, you’re probably saying, Didn’t I come here for the beach? You have some choices here – you can head into Cape May proper and spend the day on the Atlantic, where you will be close to amenities and the promenade if you are someone who likes to people watch and stroll. Or you can head to the end of the peninsula and spend the day at Cape May Point. Parking is available at the Cape May Lighthouse, where you will also find bathrooms, a nature center and a bird-watching observatory, or on the street. There is no swimming on the portion of the beach nearest the lighthouse, but you can find beach access sever
Elizabeth Degener believes it was fate.
Known as the Cape May Bread Lady, she didn’t search far and wide for her bread-baking gift. It found her.
Degener has been baking bread in a wood-burning clay oven at her family’s Enfin Farm in Cape May for 12 years now. She learned to bake bread while living and working on a farm overseas and it stayed with her.
“I went to school in Ireland and during my summers, I would just work on farms and they provide housing and food and you learn trades of the farm,” she said. “There was a clay oven on one of the farms in Germany that I lived on and I learned there.”