Atlantic City isn’t the only place for gambling in New Jersey. Gambling takes place each season in our rural settings, on our farm fields and orchards. With unpredictable weather and fluctuating markets – every season is a toss of the dice, but in 2012 in New Jersey apple orchards – luck was a lady. Read […]
Archives for September 2012
Suzanne’s Project: Rutgers Partnership Helping Women Farmers in Turkey
Suzanne’s Project is a partnership between Rutgers, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station and Akdeniz University in Turkey to empower Turkish women farmers through specialized training in enterprise skills and production methods.
Landscape Architecture Students Win National Award Re-Imagining America’s National Parks
A team of graduate and undergraduate students in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Rutgers earned top honors in a national student design competition sponsored by the Van Alen Institute and the U.S. National Park Service. “The objective was to create a ‘Park for the People’ that promotes reverence for place and advances social, economic […]
Landscape Architecture Students Win National Award
Students earn top honors in competition to re-imagine America’s national parks
N.J.’s most-hated insects: scary stink bugs, deadly bees, misunderstood mosquitoes
Insects can be scary, like stink bugs, even deadly, like mosquitoes. There have been 33 confirmed cases of the mosquito-borne West Nile Virus in New Jersey residents this year, and one elderly Burlington County man died this month. But mosquitoes aren’…
A new garden ‘crop’ is taking root in Central Jersey
"Growing Lives One Seed at a Time" is a unique gardening initiative involving the partnership of Rotary International and Rutgers University in the five counties throughout Central Jersey. The partnership is focusing on providing opportunities …
Rutgers Partners in Hard Core Financial Education Boot Camp
Launches new website designed to promote financial literacy
New Brunswick Community Farmer’s Market Open Every Thurs. & Sat. Into October
For the past four years, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and Rutgers University have teamed up to provide the New Brunswick community with a local farmer’s market located at Jones Avenue and Georges Road. The New Brunswick Community Farmer’s Market, a …
Stormwater Management Program held in Camden
Amy Boyajian, Hae-An Chyun (Water Resources Program), Maggie McCann (RCE of Camden County), staff from The Nature Conservancy, and the LEAF interns from The Nature Conservancy participated in the “Stormwater Management in the City of Camden” educational program that included the installation of a rain garden in the front of Woodrow Wilson High School, Camden, […]
Thai Alumnus Prasert Chitapong Wins Dennis Fenton Alumni Award
Mark Robson (Entomology; dean of Agricultural and Urban Programs) traveled to Thailand to present the 2012 Dennis Fenton Alumni Award for Distinguished Achievement to Dr. Prasert Chitapong on behalf of the Cook Alumni Association and Executive Dean of the school Robert M. Goodman. Chitapong has had a very distinguished career since graduating from Rutgers, returning […]