NJ Horse Therapy Centers LLC

08/30/2026

08/29/2026

08/28/2026

Fresh pasta, golden rice balls, and mozzarella that melts your heart. This New Jersey market is Italy without the flight.

08/23/2026

What a fabulous day to share with all our Veterans, special children, and families! Thank you to all our First Responders, &volunteers. We were honored to attend this event ! A special thank you to Millstone Kevin Abernathy, SenatorD' Amato ,and Councilman Byrnes.

08/23/2026

Look at the man in the middle. His only good coat, brushed that morning, papers already in his hand because he has been rehearsing this moment for two weeks. Look at the woman beside him in the shawl. Look at the little girl at the far right in her Sunday dress and her polished shoes, because you arrived looking your best or you did not arrive at all.

And look at what's on the ground. Two suitcases and a few baskets. That is everything they owned on this earth. A change of clothes, a photograph, a rosary. Sometimes a handful of seeds tied in a cloth, because wherever this was going, there would be tomatoes.

Between 1880 and 1920, more than four million of them came. Sicily, Calabria, Abruzzo, Naples, Puglia, villages so small you need a good map to find them. Two, sometimes three weeks below deck in steerage, sick and sleepless, sharing bread with strangers who were family by the time land appeared. And then the line. First class walked off at the pier. Steerage went to Ellis Island, and the doctors stood at the top of the stairs watching you climb, looking for a limp, a cough, a wheeze. A piece of chalk on your coat meant you were pulled aside. Then the inspector: do you have money, do you have work, who is meeting you.

So many of the men crossed alone first. Five years, eight years, in a mine, on a railroad, laying brick, sending money home in an envelope every month until there was enough for the tickets. There are children in this photo's generation who met their own father for the first time at fourteen.

They were mocked for the way they talked, for the vowels at the end of their names, for the smell of garlic, for their dark skin. Families changed a name to get hired. They took the work no one else wanted and were told they were lucky to have it. So they said nothing, and they worked, and they saved, and they bought a house, and then a shop, and then they put sons through universities that would not have let them through the door. And when the country that mocked them went to war, they sent five and six and seven boys from a single house.

They never stopped being Italian for a single day. The language stayed in the kitchen, the saints stayed on the mantel, the garden stayed out back, the bread on Saturday, the gravy on Sunday, and the door open to whoever showed up hungry.

My grandfather used to say a man who's willing doesn't stay hungry long. That was the whole ask. Not a hand out. A job.

Every one of us who cooks the way our grandmother cooked is still carrying a piece of what was in those suitcases.

08/23/2026

NJ is called the Garden State for a reason. We are a leader in agricultural production... with over more than 100 different kinds of fruits & veggies.

With all the development going on, we really need to protect the farmland and forests that are left... at all costs 🌻🌽🫑🍅

08/22/2026

08/22/2026

We have a great event tomorrow for children amd Veterans please share this post !

08/21/2026

Great day at the farm today with our therapy horses!