On July 16 at 6:30 p.m., Elijah’s Promise Culinary School will be hosting its Farm to Table event at the EARTH Center, home to Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County. The annual Farm to Table event focuses on supporting locally grown produce, which reduces pollution created by shipping food long distances. Buying Jersey Fresh produce […]
Commercial Agriculture
Pineland Farms Hosts Pig Roast on June 30 to Benefit NJ Farmers Against Hunger
On June 30, Pinelands Farms will host its second annual Pig Roast to benefit New Jersey Agricultural Society’s Farmers Against Hunger (FAH), which is directed by Rutgers graduate Kristina Guttadora (CC’99). The roast will take place at the Pineland Farms booth at the Trenton Farmers Market, 960 Spruce Street, from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. […]
Prof. Kenneth McKeever Receives Distinguished Service Award in Equine Science
Kenneth McKeever, associate director for research at the Equine Science Center at Rutgers University and professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, received the Equine Science Society’s (ESS) most prestigious honor, the Distinguished Service Award in Equine Science, on May 31. The award was presented during […]
Kristina Guttadora (CC ’99): Dedication to Helping Others Started Here
Last time we saw Kristina Mayberry Guttadora (Plant Biology, ’99) she was lugging huge bags of collard greens that had been gleaned from farmer Jim Giamarese’s field and was loading them on a truck for area food banks. Kristina is program director of Farmers Against Hunger, and since taking over in June 2011 has tirelessly […]
Learned it Through the Grapevine
While New Jersey has a reputable winemaking history, it is also seeing a surge in the establishment of new wineries around the state, and now boasts three regions that are official American Viticultural Areas. A handful of recent graduates from the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) have carved out careers for themselves at […]
Rutgers gives N.J. farmers alternatives to pesticides
When a barrage of brown marmorated stink bugs descended upon New Jersey in 2010, Hauser Hill Farms was not about to surrender its popular yellow, white and doughnut peaches. Nor was the family farm in Old Bridge willing to sacrifice its harvest of appl…
A Global Crop Protection Effort
The IR-4 Project, which celebrated its 50th anniversary this year, is a multi-million dollar research organization focused on helping specialty crop growers with their crop protection needs. Based at Rutgers University in New Jersey, IR-4 now has a pre…
What’s in Season from the Garden State: Jersey Strawberries – The Breed Goes On
The season for strawberries in New Jersey is short but sweet – lasting from late May to mid-June. With the year-round abundance of California and Florida strawberries in supermarkets, New Jersey’s strawberry season goes by almost unnoticed, except by aficionados who seek out home grown varieties. While not quite scarce, the commercial production of Jersey […]
Fresh new farmers in New Jersey feed the demand for crops that are produced locally
Jon McConaughy was an unlikely pick for a farmer. Formerly a trader at Credit Suisse on Wall Street, he gave it all up several years ago to raise animals and crops and run a market in Hopewell. Stocks and bonds were not the only things that mattered to…
Atlantic County produce auction house one of nation’s oldest
Felix Donato’s great-grandfather was a farmer who helped start the Landisville Produce Cooperative 100 years ago so growers in the region could match their crops with buyers. But Donato, 42, who manages it today, is not a farmer. He has an economics an…
