Cierech's Greenhouse

What they do

• Vegetable-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 available locally, year after year, in 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 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 Delaware River, at the western edge of the 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.