This article rocks, for sure.

If you are in need of gravel for a construction project or your next landscaping creation, you gotta have the stones for the job.

I know that it's winter and you will likely not be looking until the spring, but given the prices of everything, better to start getting quotes and orders in now.

Again, since New Jersey has four actual regions, North, South, Central and the Shore, it's important to break down any list by those regions.

So whatever your project, do business with local shops to help us continue to support the bedrock foundation of our New Jersey economy, small business.

Support small businesses, don't take anything for granite.

In South Jersey, the go-to place for many contractors is Tuckahoe Sand and Gravel.

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In North Jersey, check out Harmony Sand and Gravel in Belvidere.

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At the Shore, go see the good folks at Ortley Stone and Gravel in Ortley Beach.

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For those of you in Central Jersey, it's Yardville Supply in Trenton.

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