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lajih t1_jdkz2ly wrote

That's where they grow them! It takes awhile before they're big enough to harvest, though

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dinosore t1_jdlu5uw wrote

My dad told me that it was a telephone farm where they grow all the telephone poles for NJ when I was a kid and I believed him for way too long afterwards.

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rml24601 t1_jdko0fl wrote

This is so funny - I went here years ago & took photos (testing out my then-new D-SLR). I had no idea what I was photographing - I was just out for a drive & pulled over bc it looked like a neat spot. Now I know! 😝

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Tall_Kayak_Guy t1_jdmd658 wrote

They grow pretty slow. Same height since I first saw them in 1974. Not enough fertilizer.

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oxysept11 t1_jdmjevn wrote

There farmed with organic methods

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Tall_Kayak_Guy t1_jdmkd85 wrote

and slathered in rot-preventing chemicals, like Creosote

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oxysept11 t1_jdn0j9g wrote

I love the smell of Creosote - but hated painting fences with it as a kid.

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Tall_Kayak_Guy t1_jdndwwv wrote

Same. My dad had my brother and I seal the stockade fence ever few years. That was way before they found out it's linked to cancer (just like everything else!).

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Oxysept1 t1_jdnhb8f wrote

Did you know studies have found that living will actually kill you !!!

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Tall_Kayak_Guy t1_jdns6r4 wrote

Like George Carlin said "The surgeon general warned today that saliva causes stomach cancer. But apparently only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time."

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WhatIsTickyTacky t1_jdkyhjs wrote

Isn’t there another in Mercer County?

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TenCentCherryCoke t1_jdlw9bc wrote

I remember driving on Washington Ave in Newark in the ‘70s where there was a Bell Telephone lot filled with telephone poles for training purposes, and seeing the new workers on top tossing basketballs back and forth.

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