It's All About the Pine Barrens!

About PineyPower

I am Cathy Antener, owner of PineyPower LLC, pineypower.com and PineyPower Tours. I'm a "Jersey Girl" who has lived in the NJ Pine Barrens area for almost 30 years, when I moved from southern Monmouth County; first to Lakehurst, and then the Waretown/Barnegat area. Since 1996, I have been publishing a Pine Barrens website, to become PineyPower.com in 1998. More recently, I started PineyPower Tours, where I am the tour coordinator, and usually the Tour Guide.

While I can't claim the honor of centuries of ancestors here in the pines (I'm only a 4th generation American of Swiss-German-English descent), I non-the-less have a thirst for knowledge about the area, and find that the more I know, the less I know! History, geography, economics, horticulture, ecology, geology, biology, botany and even literature are all alive and well here, and there's always a lot to learn on every subject!

I honed my basic knowledge of the Pine Barrens while I was employed by the Ocean County Department of Parks and Recreation until 2001, where I was a member of the first - and several subsequent - "Pine Barrens Jamboree" planning committees . I also spent a lot of time assisting in the development of several County Parks, including Wells Mills County Park in Waretown, Patriots' County Park in Jackson, and Eno's Pond County Park in Forked River. I worked in cooperation with both the NJ Pinelands Commission and the NJ Dept. of Environmental Protection in the course of my 18 years with Ocean County. After a six-year hiatus (actually selling real estate full time), I decided to make my Pine Barrens passion my livelihood. While I still hold my NJ Real Estate license, I now devote myself entirely to PINEYPOWER!

Personally, I live in the western area of Barnegat NJ with my 17-year-old Persian, Alex P. Catt, my Greyhound Isaac (Zakeroo) and all the critters in my big back yard.

Since letting my yard go "natural" (no fertilizers, herbicides or insecticides and minimal watering), over the past 10 years, I've been suprised with the wildflowers cropping up; my yard is often the locale for many of my nature photos!