Stepping outside onto the terrace of an apartment building in northern New Jersey brings the realization that the state is one large forest with towns and roads carved amidst it. That’s, of course, excluding the swamps across the Hudson River from New York City and the farmland to the west and south. One thing is for sure: It is no mystery why New Jersey is called the Garden State. New Jersey is verdant to a fault with mega-pollen outbreaks to confound allergy sufferers and mosquitoes to buzz the ears all night long ruining sleep patterns the entire summer.
