Attention Future Brew-masters: The idea of a beer garden will take on a whole new meaning for those who attend a Jan. 24 workshop entitled "From Garden to Glass: Home Brewing with Your Garden Harvest" Rutgers Master Gardeners will inform partic…
Archives for January 2014
‘Green infrastructure’ plans underway for Little Falls flood area
The township hopes to benefit from a program to reduce nuisance flooding through the building of rain gardens and like measures that attack flooding at its source, while at the same time sprucing up lands made vacant in the wake of flood buyouts. Rutge…
New Jersey Top 10 Beaches seeks artists to roll out barrels
The New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium is ringing in the New Year with a call for artists to apply to be part of a unique New Jersey Top 10 Beaches project for 2014 that will use art to help promote environmental awareness and stewardship of coastal resou…
Become an environmental steward
Are you looking for a New Year’s resolution that you’re likely to stick with, once you embark on the journey? How about a way to give something back to your community in a way that’s meaningful and guaranteed to get you out and about? Consider joining …
Sarah Ralston Makes List of Top 15 Vet Nutrition Professors
Sarah Ralston, professor in the Department of Animal Sciences, was recently identified as one of the Top 15 Vet Nutrition Professors in a survey conducted by VetTechColleges.com. Criteria for selection of the Top 15 included candidates having both veterinary and Ph.D. degrees, Board certification in Veterinary Nutrition, plus extensive teaching and publications in the field […]
Feds shut Calif. chicken plant infested with cockroaches
Federal inspectors on Wednesday suspended processing at a poultry plant in California found to have been infested with cockroaches four times over the past five months. The Foster Farm plant is one of three in central California being investigated for …
Solar Geoengineering: Weighing Costs of Blocking the Sun’s Rays
In 1991, Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted in one of the largest volcanic blasts of the 20th century. It spat up to 20 million tons of sulfur into the upper atmosphere, shielding the earth from the sun’s rays and causing global temperatures to …
416 sick from Salmonella: USDA closes Foster Farms plant over roach infestation
With 416 sick from Salmonella that has been going on for months, the feds finally decided to close a Foster Farms plant in California. For cockroaches. I told Beth Weise of USA Today, "It’s probably that USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) was ge…
Garden classes slated for January in Cumberland County
Rutgers Master Gardeners of Cumberland County training/accreditation courses begin in January and each three-hour course is open to the public for a fee of $20. This includes intensive topic training, handouts, and refreshments…All classes run from 9…
4-H Youth Summit set
The New Jersey 4-H Program of Rutgers University will host the Science of Soil 4-H Youth Summit on Jan. 15 at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. Sixth- through eighth-graders from public, private or parochial schools, as well as youth involved in stu…