Rutgers University is working on bringing back the glorious Jersey tomatoes of summers gone by, but lucky for us, today there are still many grown-in-New-Jersey tomatoes. And they are at their peak now. Late summer is when local tomatoes are in all of …
Archives for August 2013
Rutgers Awarded $1 million in HUD Grants to Protect Homes from Health Hazards
Changlu Wang, assistant extension specialist at the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station was awarded $342,905 “to design and implement a model bed bug integrated pest management (IPM) program for low-income communities.” The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) made the announcement on Aug. 26 as part of a combined $1 million award […]
Middlesex County Master Gardener Program Now Enrolling 2013-14 Classes
A new season of Rutgers Master Gardener classes will be starting soon at the Middlesex County EARTH Center in South Brunswick, NJ. Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County will offer both daytime and evening programs. Orientation will be on Thursday Sept. 12at 6:30 p.m. for the evening class and Friday, Sept. 13 at 9:30 a.m. […]
State needs to be ‘smarter than the storm’
"Stronger than the storm" implies that we can somehow beat Mother Nature through our superior strength and resolve. But as those who have survived natural catastrophes like hurricanes, tornadoes, and tsunamis have come to realize, being "st…
Why does meat taste so good?
According to those who tried it recently, lab-grown beef doesn’t really taste like meat. So what exactly gives meat its flavour and makes us beg for more? We’ve long known why ice cream and chocolate appeal so much to our taste buds: It’s that blissful…
Life on the Edge exhibit opensat Tuckerton Seaport
Visitors to the southern end of Barnegat Bay and neighboring Great Bay have a new place to start their adventures, with the newly revamped Life on the Edge exhibition at the Tuckerton Seaport museum…High-end video displays, interactive digital exhibi…
N.J. weekly food calendar: Sample dozens of tomato varieties at annual Great Tomato Tasting
If you think you the Jersey tomato begins and ends with the tangy, tasty Rutgers – the tomato of choice for many years for Campbell Soup, Heinz, and Hunt – think again. Better yet, taste for yourself. The annual Great Tomato Tasting, held at Rutgers Un…
What’s in Season from the Garden State: What’s Behind the Tomato Name?
Mortgage Lifter, Brandywine, Ramapo, Supersonic, Cherokee Purple. How do tomato varieties get these unique and sometimes odd names? There may not be as many colorful stories as there are intriguing names, but some stand out, as in the case of the heirloom tomato, Mortgage Lifter. The story goes that in the 1930s a West Virginia […]
Camp hooks youths on big-game fishing
The biggest fish Dominic Petrocci has ever caught was a 23-inch striped bass he reeled in under the concrete bridge coming into town. But after visiting the Mid-Atlantic $500,000 big-game fishing tournament this week, he is dreaming bigger – much bigge…
Rutgers team works to revive history’s sweet Jersey tomato
Will the real Jersey tomatoes please stand up? That Garden State staple you’re slicing, dicing, salting and serving may have been grown in our soil, and it may have its own allure, but it’s likely not one of the luscious, tangy-sweet, vine-ripened summ…