Beach Plum Farm offers an immersive farm-to-table dining experience with menus based on freshly harvested ingredients. Guests seated outside for dinner at Beach Plum Farm. Credit: Cape Resorts Despite being known as the Garden State, New Jersey doesn’t always get top billing for its agricultural scene. But the numbers tell a different story: more than 250,000 acres of farmland have been preserved across the state, a humble reminder of its farming roots. And while there’s no shortage of places to experience that firsthand, one destination has taken the idea of “eating local” and turned it into something far more immersive: Beach Plum Farm & Cottages in Cape May. Most visitors come to Cape May for its salt air and storybook Victorian streets, but if you venture just a couple of miles inland, the scenery shifts. This is where Beach Plum Farm unfolds across 62 acres—a working farm and agritourism destination that feels both tucked away and essential to the area’s evolving food scene.…