Agenda

2025 NAAMO Annual Conference

Host: New Jersey Department of Agriculture

Hotel: DoubleTree by Hilton – Cherry Hill Philadelphia
2349 Marlton Pike W, Cherry Hill, NJ 08002

 

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Contact: Joe Atchison
New Jersey Department of Agriculture
609-913-6520 office
Joe.Athison@ag.nj.gov

 

Tentative Agenda

 

NAAMO Schedule Rough Draft

  • Sunday July 20, 2025- 9 Hour Day
    • 2:00pm: Registration- Riverside Ballroom
    • 3:30pm: Welcome and Overview of NJ Agriculture- Riverside Ballroom
    • 4:45pm: Agenda Overview – Riverside Ballroom
    • 5:00pm: Break
    • 7:00pm: Welcome Reception and Gift Exchange- Riverside Ballroom
      • Bar and heavy hors d’oeuvres
    • 9:00pm – 11:00pm: Network Event – Riverside Ballroom
      • NJ made food and drink samples
        • Made with Jersey Fresh invites
        • NJ Wine Growers Association, NJ Brewers Guild, and NJ Craft Distillers Guild- Devon Perry
        • Games at tables
          • Bella’s idea: Custom NJ puzzle
          • Quick and fun board games like Guess Who but the people are NJ local fruits and veggies

 

  • Monday July 21, 2025- 12 Hour Day
    • 7:00am: Hotel Breakfast
    • 7:30am: Depart Hotel for Tours
      • 9:00am: Arrive at Melick’s Town Farm/ Cidery

Jersey Fresh- Largest apple grower in NJ, 25,000 apple trees, Pick your own, CSA, and Cider Mill-10th Generation Farmers

  • Hotel to Melick’s Town Farm: 1:22 hour
  • 1 Hour tour
  • Leave 10:15am
  • 10:30pm: Arrive at Readington River Buffalo Farm

Raise Bison meat, NRCS Practices

  • Melick’s to Readington River: 16 minutes
  • 1 Hour tour
  • Leave 11:45pm
  • 12:00pm: Arrive Skunktown Distillery

Made With Jersey Fresh Distilled Liquors

  • Reading River to Skunktown: 12 minutes
  • 1 Hour Lunch
  • Leave 1:00pm
  • 1:05pm: Arrive Black River and Western Railroad Station to Pumpkin Junction

Passenger Rail Line partnering with local farm for unique agritourism activities such and pumpkin picking

  • Skunktown to BRWR: 5 minutes walking
  • 1-2 Hour tour
  • Leave 3:00pm
  • 3:15pm: Arrive Unionville

Diverse wines made from grapes across six vineyards in 3 counties- History Fun Fact- George Washington led troops over the area and camped on grounds that nourish finest vines

  • BRWR to Unionville: 15 minutes
  • Hour tour and presentation First Field

Made With Jersey Fresh- Food Export

  • Leave 4:30pm
  • 5:45pm: Arrive Back at the Hotel
    • Dinner on your own
  • 8:00pm – 10:00pm: Networking Session

 

  • Tuesday July 22, 2025- 16 Hour Day
    • 7:00am: Hotel Breakfast (PEC SPK)
    • 8:00am: Market Excellence Award Presentations
      • 3x 30-minute presentations
    • 9:45am: USDA Updates
      • Last year: Market News Updates, National Agricultural Statistical Service Updates, and Agricultural Marketing Service Updates (1.5 hours)
    • 11:15am: Branding Presentation – Campbells (45 minutes) TBD
    • 12:00pm: Lunch (Philly Style)
    • 1:00pm: NAAMO Meetings
      • 1:00pm – 2:00pm: NAAMO Regional Meeting and Reports
      • 2:00pm – 2:30pm: NAAMO Business Meeting
      • 2:30pm – 3:00pm: BREAK (soft pretzel)
      • 3:00pm – 3:30pm: National Association of State Departments of Agriculture
      • 3:30pm – 4:00pm: Branding Presentation: Jess Niederer- Chickadee Creek President of the NJ Organic and Regenerative Farming Board, Outstanding Young Farmer Program
    • 5:00pm: Depart Hotel for Awards Banquet – Camden County Boathouse
    • 9:00pm: Bus Returns to Hotel
    • 9:00pm – 11:00pm: Networking Session

 

  • Wednesday July 23, 2025 – 16 Hour Day
    • 7:00am – 8:00am: Breakfast
      • 8:00am: Depart Hotel for Dream Park
      • 8:30am: Arrive at Dream Park

State of the art Equestrian Center, competitions education, access for those with special need, aromatherapy center, Branding/Marketing and contribution to local economy, Animal Waste Reduction

  • Hotel to Dream Park: 28 minutes
  • 1 Hour visit
  • Leave 9:30am
  • 10:15am: Arrive at Centerton Nursery

Family owned wholesale nursery with 1500 unique products, nationally known BlewLabel brand (including NJ Native plants), State Board of Agriculture

  • Dream Park to Centerton: 41 minutes
    • 1 Hour tour (end tour 11:15am)
    • 11:15-12:00pm- Bob Blew-VP Centerton Nurseries (Branding)
    • Leave 12:00pm
  • 12:30 pm: Arrive at Eastern Fresh Growers – large wholesale grower, Rural Development funding program
    • Centerton to Eastern Fresh: 24 minutes
    • 1 Hour visit
    • Leave 1:30 pm
  • 2:45pm: Arrive Lund’s Fisheries

Seafood Wholesaler, Food Export

  • Eastern Fresh to Lund’s: 1:07 hours
  • 1 Hour visit
  • Leave 3:45pm
  • 3:50pm: Arrive Two Mile Crab House
    • Lunds to Two Mile Crab House: 4 mins
    • Dinner –
    • Leave 4:50
  • 5:00pm: Arrive Cape May Whale Watch
    • Two Mile Crab House to Whale Watch: 10 minutes
    • 2 Hour charter
    • Leave 7:30pm
  • 9:30pm: Arrive at Double Tree Cherry Hill
    • Whale Watch to DoubleTree: 1:30-2 hour (built in extra time here)
  • 9:00pm – 11:00pm
    • Networking Session
  • Thursday: 3 Hour Day
    • 7:30am: Leave for Duffield’s Farm

Family owned Farm market, on-site Bakery/Deli

  • Hotel to Duffields: 26 minutes
  • 8:00am: Arrive at Duffield’s Farm
  • Breakfast at Duffields’s
  • 1 Hour Tour
  • 9:30am Leave Duffield’s Farm
  • 10:00am: Arrive at Union Field or Tuckahoe Turf Farm –Branding Presentation – Allen Carter- Tuckahoe Turf
    • Duffields to Stadium or Farm: 30 minutes
    • 90 Minute Tour
    • 11:30am: Leave Arena *if we can schedule in this timeframe*
  • 12:00pm: Arrive at Hotel