New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture Douglas H. Fisher and other officials visited a Whitehouse Station greenhouse garden center Monday to launch a pilot program that will now include flowers and house plants in the state’s Jersey Grown program.
“We’re here to launch something that we think is very, very exciting,” Fisher said during a brief news conference at Hionis Greenhouses and Garden Center.
All annual and bedding plants are now eligible to be labeled Jersey Grown provided they were grown in the state and meet or exceed certain Department of Agriculture standards, Fisher said.
“People do appreciate what is local,” he said. “This is just an extension of that.”
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