Cierech's Greenhouse

What they do

• Vegetable-[[seedling-propagation|transplant production]] — 30+ varieties each of peppers and tomatoes, plus other vegetables
• Pansies and early-season annuals — first ready in March
• Herbs
• Soil and mulch
• Family-grown — three+ generations of greenhouse work on the same site

Season opens in March; closes for winter.

Why it’s listed

A greenhouse that has been growing thirty varieties of peppers and tomatoes from a former cornfield for half a century is its own kind of preservation work — the breadth of the catalog keeps unusual and [[heirloom-varieties|heirloom varieties]] available locally, year after year, in [[a-market|a market]] that otherwise consolidates toward the same handful of supermarket varieties. The directory wants to surface the operations doing varietal preservation through commerce, not just the ones doing it through seed-saving libraries.

The 1974 founding by a 23-year-old on a cornfield is the kind of long-term-bet story [[directory|the directory]] specifically wants to recognize — the opposite of short-term-thinking commerce.

Bioregional fit

Pohatcong Township sits on the Pohatcong Creek floodplain just east of where it joins the [[harrington-delaware|Delaware]] River, at the western edge of the [[new-jersey-highlands|New Jersey Highlands]] and directly across the river from Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley. The bottomland soils here are the kind of agricultural ground the Highlands have farmed for centuries; Cierech’s is one of the working continuations of that ground.

See also

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• Member of: [[business]]
• Contained by: [[new-jersey-highlands]]

Sources

• Cierech’s Greenhouse public materials (cierechgreenhouse.com, Facebook)
• Explore Warren county business directory
• Yelp business profile (23 Winters Rd, Phillipsburg)

A listing in the 0mn1.one [[directory]].