MIDDLESEX TWP — A longtime farmer told the township supervisors she is not operating a business from her residential home.

Lisa King of Virginia Street appeared before the three-man board on Wednesday afternoon to answer a neighbor’s accusations that she is operating a business in a neighborhood that is zoned residential.

Kathleen Burk told supervisors at the April and May board meetings that trucks from King’s flower business are wrecking the dirt roads in the neighborhood, which is off East Cruikshank Road.

Burk and a handful of other neighbors said King grows flowers on her 4-acre property and sells them at her farm market on Route 8. They said trucks coming and going to move the flowers are disrupting the neighborhood and ruining the private roads in the small plan.

One neighbor said King is operating the flower business from her home because she had a business card and a sign in her yard.

King said on Wednesday that the card was a mistake and the sign has been taken down. She said she grows the flowers on her property, but sells them at the farm market.

“I don’t sell out of there. I don’t want to sell out of there,” King told supervisors.

Township manager Scot Fodi suggested the neighbors might be upset because King removed several large trees to make room for the flowerbeds. King said the trees were in bad shape and covered with poison ivy.

She said she planted five trees after having the old trees cut down, which she hated to do.

“I’m a tree hugger,” King said.

King’s neighbor, Jim Boldy, also attended the meeting to support King. He said the majority of people in the neighborhood, which was originally known as the Flanagan Plan, also support King.

Regarding the dirt roads, Boldy said King has worked to repair and drain them over the years.

“Those roads are in better shape now than when she moved in,” Boldy said.

The township does not own or maintain the roads in the small neighborhood.

When King told supervisors she is interested in installing drains in the roads, Fodi retrieved a survey of the neighborhood and a discussion on right-of-ways ensued between King, Boldy and supervisors.

“We have no control over those roads,” said Mike Spreng, supervisors chairman.

The meeting ended with supervisors seemingly satisfied that King is not operating a business at her home in violation of zoning.