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means The official nickname of New Jersey, celebrating its historic role as a major producer of fruits and vegetables for the region.

from The name dates to the 1870s-1876 and is popularly attributed to Abraham Browning, a New Jersey statesman who reportedly compared the state to a barrel full of good things — fruits, vegetables, and produce — open at both ends, with Pennsylvania and New York 'feeding from it.' New Jersey adopted 'Garden State' as its official state nickname in the mid-20th century, even as its highways and refineries made the title feel, to many, like an irony worth defending.