“New Jersey is called the Garden State because at one time it had the most vegetable gardens of any state “
There probably used to be gardens in Camden.
The ‘gardens’ were actually truck farms - a family with several acres or more growing veg & fruit taking their produce to market in the family truck. The soil is a rich loam now buried under and paved over for gigantic corporate HQs, track housing, sub-developments, parking lots, and shopping centers for the most part.