Locally produced cocktail starters are a growing trend across New Jersey
Cherry Hill Courier-Post Amanda Rodriguez has a garden in the front of her Cherry Hill home, and she has ducks in the back. Both play a role in the homemade, handcrafted goods she produces for the family business, The Rod Homestead. Rodriguez began by infusing her own vanilla extracts, offering them as gifts. Then she began to harvest herbs from her garden, which led to her create more things, such as basil salt for her pastas. Eventually, she began creating simple cocktails for herself. The rest is, well, history. “I have a friend who’s a beekeeper, so I used her honey for the honey ...
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