Together with their son, James P. Vreeland, III, the Vreelands operated a farm in Towaco, New Jersey near U.S. Route 202, where visitors could pick their own strawberries, tomatoes, beans, cucumbers, peppers and eggplants depending on the season.
The villagers are primarily farmers who grow drumsticks, onions, chili peppers, peanuts, tomatoes, eggplants, beans and lentils.
Mehshi is a famous dish served in Syria, it is essentially Kousa or Eggplants stuffed with ground beef, rice and nuts.
In 1909, Burpee established Floradale Farms in Lompoc, California, to test sweet peas, and Sunnybrook Farms near Swedesboro, New Jersey, to test tomatoes, eggplants, peppers and squashes.