Pegi and Tom Costantino at their “Tiny Farm” on Old Corlies Avenue in historic rural Neptune. The barn and the house are purple. The meditation pit is behind them. Paul Goldfinger photograph. 9/21/22. ©. Blogfinger.net
Pegi comforts a wounded rooster. Blogfinger photo. 9/21/22.
By Eileen and Paul Goldfinger, Blogfinger.net.
Pegi Costantino is known to some of you as the Chief Woman at the Ocean Grove Woman’s Club. She is also an author and radio personality–an expert on gardening and do-it-yourselfing. If you go to Blogfinger.net you can click on “About” and scroll down to the section on Miss Pegi.
Today we are visiting their “Tiny Farm” to view the progress made in the last few years.
Pegi and Tom are Grovers and they have a historic Victorian home in town. Pegi loves colors, and some years ago they had another home in the Grove, and she struggled with the HPC to get what she wanted—to paint the home a bright orange. Some of you may recall that orange house.
In the last few years she and Tom have been bringing an old farm back to life on Old Corlies Avenue– a historic rural street in Neptune. Across the street is an old cemetery, and Tom says that his neighbors are “quiet.”
After buying the property, one thing Pegi was sure of was that she wanted the house and barn to be purple, and that is what occurred.
The couple have been working to redo the farm inside and out. There is a chicken coop with two roosters and an ample supply of eggs. They feature a huge vegetable and flower garden where Peggy has chosen some exotic plants. Pegi starts many plants from seed in the greenhouse, attached to their home.
Miss Pegi at the Ocean Grove Woman’s Club. 2020. Paul Goldfinger portrait..
Tom is a business man who works from home, so, needless to say, he is enlisted to be a farm hand and a maintenance man, and he loves those jobs. Right Tom? Tom also is a musician and performs with a rock duo.
NORMAL BLAKE From “O Brother Where Art Thou”