As a SoCal girl, born and raised, who was told that my 100k suburban town was "small," going on an adventure to New Jersey was such an amazing experience, and visiting Chia Sin Farms was definitely peak. A family-owned business, I was able to take a tour of the farm with Mr. Huang himself. He showed us the greenhouses filled with citrus trees, flowering plants, herbs, air plants, and succulents, vegetable fields, fruit tree orchards, and even bee hives! The high standards and passion for sharing knowledge is palpable and I could especially see how this would be an especially great place to stop by to pick up high quality Chinese New Year fruit trees and flowers for amazing prices (they even have my fave, the rare Taiwanese yellow magnolia and dude, $1 pots!). I'd love to return in the summer to pick veggies with my kiddos, also think it's awesome that they carry rare Asian plants (I'm a bit of a succulent and air plants fan and they have varieties - even albino ones! - that I've never seen before!), harvest their own seeds, and are open to experimenting on creating new varietals read more