The northern part of the Turnpike corridor and the Sopranos give a misleading picture of the whole state. My grandfather was a South Jersey farm boy who grew u

The northern part of the Turnpike corridor and the Sopranos give a misleading picture of the whole state. My grandfather was a South Jersey farm boy who grew up to become a professor of entomology in the Rutgers ag school by the 1930s. He saw the postwar suburban expansion eat up much of that farmland first hand in his work with the ag extension program's pest control officers, and he often lamented how much first-rate farmland was being "wasted" growing a crop of houses.