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Jess Niederer, 2019

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Collection Description & Creator Information

Scope and Contents

Jess Niederer is a 13th generation of Niederer farmers, where the Niederers have been in Hopewell Valley since 1910. Jess is a graduate of Cornell University with a degree in Natural Resources, and after stints in conservation biology, ornithology, disaster relief, and development work, Jess started Chickadee Creek Farm in 2010. Jess was named New Jersey's 2016 Outstanding Young Farmer. In the interview, Jess shares the struggles involved with renovating her family farm into a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) and the challenges that come farming full-time today. Jess explores the importance of paying attention to the soil and the spiritual and biological stories that soil tell. Finally, Jess explores various complexities related to farming such as family dynamics, employee management, and climate change.

Collection History

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Valencia Johnson in 2023. Finding aid written by Valencia Johnson in 2023.

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Credit this material:

Jess Niederer; American Agrarians: Ideas of Land, Labor, and Food Oral Histories, AC498, Princeton University Archives, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

Location:
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library
65 Olden Street
Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
(609) 258-6345

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Existence and Location of Originals

Interviews in this series were originally archived as part of the "MS926 Voices of Princeton Oral History Collection, Series 3: American Agrarians" at the Historical Society of Princeton.