Don Schaffner – Department of Environmental Science
Archives for February 2020
Cooperative Extension to offer healthy eating program
Chris Zellers – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Growing Peppers—and Resiliency—in Puerto Rico
“Do it yourself.” Whether it’s by choice or necessity, these three words encapsulate a lot about Puerto Rican culture, says Rutgers faculty member and Puerto Rico native Richard Alomar. A deep desire for self-sufficiency comes partly from the island’s agricultural heritage—”a proud history of working their own land,” Alomar says—and largely from a distrust in […]
NJTV News with Mary Alice Williams
Tom Orton – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Rutgers NJAES tomato breeders release ‘Scarlet Sunrise’ bicolor grape tomato
Tom Orton and Pete Nitzsche – New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
Here’s where N.J.’s low-snow winter ranks as February fades away
David Robinson – New Jersey State Climatologist
Growing peppers–and resiliency–in Puerto Rico
Richard Alomar – Department of Landscape Architecture, Office of Urban Extension and Engagement
Rutgers NJAES Tomato Breeders Release ‘Scarlet Sunrise’ Bicolor Grape Tomato
The Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) tomato breeding team that developed the ‘Rutgers 250’ tomato, has created a new and unique bicolor grape tomato, ‘Scarlet Sunrise‘. Developed by traditional (non-GMO) plant breeding methods, this cultivar has firm, crack-resistant red/yellow fruit, and–representative of New Jersey’s legacy of tasty tomatoes–an intense sweet flavor balanced by […]
Rutgers NJAES tomato breeders release new tomato
Tom Orton and Pete Nitzsche – Rutgers Cooperative Extention
Will it ever snow again? Should we be worried? Yes and yes, says New Jersey’s international snow expert
David Robinson is a distinguished professor in the Department of Geography and the New Jersey State Climatologist, a position that is housed at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station and associated with the Center for Environmental Prediction at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. As the state climatologist, Robinson conducts research of an applied […]