I once touched the Liberty Bell.
It was a long time ago: I was seven or eight years old and my mother had taken me to Philadelphia to see the sights. Although o...
When I was a young farmer, a customer visited my family?s stand at a farmer?s market in New Jersey, where we sold tomatoes.
This was back when tomatoes went...
When we talk about an oldchestnut, we usually mean a familiar storysometimes one thatsbeen told so often thatithas become stale, but also possibly one t...
Congress should make a New Years resolution to support free trade in 2019.
A numberofpundits have assumed thatas new leaderstakeformal control of the...
Im a failed hazelnut farmer.
Then again, so is every other farmer who has tried to grow hazelnuts in New Jersey. In fact, almost nobody east of the Rockies ...
History is full of great rivalries: Athens versus Sparta, Lincoln versus Douglas, even the Roadrunner versus Wile E. Coyote.
Author Charles C. Mann describes...
Not many people around the world eat local at Christmas.
At least nobody does in New Jersey, where I live and farmand where snow commonly covers the field...
Were all for Cuba Librea free Cuba that allows its people to elect their government, speak their mind, and own their property.
The question is how to get...
The Environmental Working Group made a marketing mistake when it picked the name for its annual list of least-favorite foods: The Dirty Dozen. At least for me...
The enemies of biotechnology have a favorite insult for GMOs: Frankenfood. The term refers to Frankensteins monster, made famous in the 19th century by Mary ...
John Rigolizzo, Jr. is a fifth generation farmer, raising fresh vegetables and field corn in southern New Jersey. The family farm provides products to retail and wholesale markets.
John volunteers as a board member for the Global Farmer Network and has provided leadership to the Vegetable Growers Association of New Jersey and New Jersey Tomato Council. As a former New Jersey Farm Bureau President, his interest and long-time support of free trade was supported by his involvement in 11 international trade missions and engagement in World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle and Geneva.
