VonThun Farms of Monmouth Junction, NJ, is a regular vendor at the Highland Park Community Farmer’s Market every season. As the days grow crisp and fall is in the air, VonThun’s end their participation in the community market, even though the market is open for many more weeks. Did they run out of produce and […]
Archives for September 2013
Rutgers Gardens Hosts Annual Gala
The 7th Annual Gardens Gala to benefit the Rutgers Gardens was held on Sept. 12 at the Log Cabin and adjacent Alumni Pavilion. The DOC award, formally known as the “Hamilton Award for Dedication and Outstanding Commitment to the Rutgers Gardens,” named for Rutgers Gardens’ friend and longtime Rutgers colleague, Bruce “Doc” Hamilton, was presented […]
Diving ocean gliders capture valuable data
Thirty miles out to sea, Ray Rock swung the Lucky Lady around hard and headed west. Hunched over his laptop, ocean glider pilot Chris Jakubiak shouted out the last four digits of an 11-digit GPS coordinate, then hustled across the cabin to stare out at…
Rutgers Students Dig-In To Healthy Dining Options
Beer, pizza, and Ramen noodles were once considered staples of the college diet. But all that is changing. Schools have started to update their menus and curriculum in an effort to help students make healthier choices, CBS 2′s Christine Sloan rep…
Community Day 2013 Serves up Food, Festivity and Fun
Passion Puddle at Red Oak Lane on the George H. Cook Campus was teeming with festive activity on September 17 as Community Day drew close to 2,000 students, staff and faculty to the annual event. Community Day celebrates the start of a new academic year on the George H. Cook and Douglass campuses, bringing the […]
TEDx delivers big concepts
It started with an idea. Atlantic Highlands resident Brian Smiga and a team of fellow volunteers decided to stage a TEDx conference in New Jersey, bringing together some of the nation’s top minds to ponder the Jersey Shore’s future. In only a matter of…
Entrepreneurs "Birthed" Here
They come from all over the region, no more than two dozen invited at a time. They drive to Bridgeton in rural Cumberland County, near Delaware Bay, for a five-hour seminar at the Rutgers Food Innovation Center. "They are mostly individuals who hav…
Rutgers Cooperative Extension to host classes in Millville, Woodstown
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Cumberland County will present four hour-long free classes in Woodstown and Millville this fall focusing on practices that homeowners can use to make their home landscapes more eco-friendly…All classes are free, and w…
Fighting Empty Pantries and Calories: More Local Healthy Food in New Brunswick
New Brunswick Mayor Cahill Visits Community Farm Market’s Latest Location Downtown It’s lunchtime on Wednesday in downtown New Brunswick. There are plenty of establishments to grab a bite to eat – fast food places, cafes, coffee and frozen yogurt shops, but now there’s something else you can grab while downtown – all the fixings for […]
Dear EarthTalk: Solar Geo-Engineering
Solar geo-engineering is a term describing any of various techniques for reducing the amount of sunlight that reaches the Earth and its atmosphere. Researchers are exploring the feasibility of utilizing solar geo-engineering to reflect some of the sun’…