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August 08, 2009

Of Course It’s Fresh: The Chef Grew It

RINGOES, N.J. — It is near midday, and the parking lot of the Harvest Moon Inn is empty. Stanley Novak’s shift as chef is hours away, but he has been working already, cutting the grass on the restaurant’s five-acre property, taking particular care around the rows of some 300 heirloom tomato plants, the cucumbers, the raspberries, the eggplants and other crops. He has been weeding, too, in the raised beds stuffed with salad greens and herbs.

Mr. Novak and his wife, Theresa, opened their upscale New American restaurant in Hunterdon County in 1995, and Mr. Novak has grown a portion of the food for its kitchen ever since.

Full NYT Article Brother's Restaurant.

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