The Rutgers University Seeing Eye Puppy Raising Club offers a rewarding experience for students who raise puppies for The Seeing Eye, Inc., a private, not-for-profit organization formed in 1929 with the goal of providing dogs to serve the visually-impaired across the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. See what the club is all about.
Spring Gardening: “Going Green” Can Also Apply to Your Lawn
It’s Spring and time to bring out the chemicals to maintain that fine green lawn, right? Not necessarily! It’s possible to have that lush green lawn without all the chemicals. To achieve that, it requires a different set of tools, mainly a new understanding of the landscape as a whole living system. The organic lawn […]
Spring Gardening: Time to Test Your Soil
Spring and fall are good times to test lawn and garden soil. Soil test results are a guide for what to add to soil now and in time, to reach optimum soil fertility for healthy plant growth. The Rutgers Soil Testing Lab has soil test kits and instructions on its website. Watch this video for […]
Cape May 4-H Offers Summer Teen Leadership Institute
For teens entering grades 7 – 12, interested in marine and environmental science, and enjoy being outdoors and working with children, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Cape May County and NJ Audubon’s Nature Center of Cape May are currently accepting applications for the 2013 Rutgers 4-H Summer Teen Leadership Institute. This 8-week institute will take place […]
Rutgers Gardens Wins Environmental Stewardship Award From Turfgrass Industry
The Rutgers Gardens, a self-sustaining botanical garden on the New Brunswick campus, has won the 2012 New Jersey Turfgrass Association Environmental Stewardship Award, in recognition of its “ongoing environmental preservation and conservation commitments through the act of education.” The association, whose mission is to promote the turfgrass industry in the state, honors “a person or […]
Reducing Impact on Our Waters
New Jersey’s Fertilizer Law Initiated by local environmentalists, a series of new legislation was proposed in 2010 to protect Barnegat Bay in Ocean County. Among the legislative proposals was a bill that would place restrictions on fertilizer products and application designed to reduce nitrogen from damaging New Jersey’s coastal waterways, and phosphorus from damaging fresh […]
Local Environmental Groups with Rutgers Connections Host Farmers Markets
The Friends of the East Brunswick Environmental Commission (EBEC), a non-profit organization dedicated to local environmental education and conservation founded in 2005 by David Moskowitz and Liti Haramaty, has deep roots in Rutgers University. A naturalist, Moskowitz is completing a Ph.D. in entomology at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences while Haramaty is a […]
Doctoral Student is Third Place U.S. Winner in Young Scientist Competition
Jessica Verpeut, a Ph.D. student in Endocrinology and Animal Biosciences at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, finished third among U.S. graduate student candidates in the annual Alltech Young Scientist competition. The Alltech Young Scientist Award brings together thousands of graduate and undergraduate students from colleges and universities across the globe. Candidates are asked […]
Tips from Rutgers Home Gardeners School
The annual Rutgers Home Gardeners School, which is sponsored by the NJAES Office of Continuing Professional Education, was held in March this year. It’s a packed day of instruction and demonstrations for both new and experienced gardeners. In this video, a few instructors give tips on starting a garden.
Spring Gardening: Early Blooming Spring Plants
Spring is in the air! The early blooms of spring are a welcome transition from winter’s bleak landscape. Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County features several unusual early spring blooming plants in this video.
