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Asbury Park

Kula wins award from state for economic development

Is 'wonderful testament' to all who helped make the café a reality

By Asbury Park Sun


Kula Café has received one of the 2014 Excellence in Housing and Economic Development awards from the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency, according to a release from café owners. The café, a community restaurant and job training program  in Asbury Park, was one of two winners in the category of Leading Public-Private Economic […]

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Oct 10, 2014
Asbury Park

Kula Café owners planning urban farm project

Portion of the farm would be used as a community entrepreneurial garden

By Jill Bartlett


Interfaith Neighbors is in the planning stages of an urban farm, their newest social enterprise on the city’s West Side following the success of the Kula Café. The concept is to erect the Kula Urban Farm Project, comprised of a year-round greenhouse and a few outdoor raised beds where individuals can work, learn, and have access […]

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Apr 28, 2014