by Bruce Crawford, Manager of Horticulture, Morris County Park Commission Bugbane is in the Buttercup Family or Ranunculaceae and has 12–18 species found throughout temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Actaea racemosa is native from southern Ontario to Georgia and west to Missouri and Arkansas, where it is typically found in woodlands and shaded rocky slopes.
Richard Alomar Elected to Prestigious American Society of Landscape Architects Council of Fellows
Associate professor Richard Alomar, who serves as chair and graduate program director in the Department of Landscape Architecture, has been elected by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) as one of its 2022 ASLA Fellows. Alomar, who directs the Rutgers Office of Urban Extension and Engagement, is also a core faculty member on the […]
NASA says its plan to bring Mars samples back to Earth is safe, but some people are worried
Nathan Yee – Department of Environmental Science
National Urban Extension Conference hosted by Rutgers
Jennifer Shukaitis – FCHS; Angela Johnsen – Rutgers Urban Extension and Engagement
2022 National Urban Extension Conference Hosted by Rutgers Offered Opportunity to Inspire and Reconnect
The National Urban Extension Leaders (NUEL) presented the 2022 National Urban Extension Conference in Camden, NJ, on May 23 -26. The conference, hosted by Rutgers Cooperative Extension and held at the Rutgers Camden Campus Center, attracted 300 participants from over 85 universities, local, state, and federal agencies as well as community groups from New Jersey, […]
Discovery Paves Way for More Sustainable Crop Cultivation Methods
Rutgers researchers have discovered that nitrogen-fixing bacteria hidden within leaf cells could lead to more efficient and sustainable methods of crop cultivation. The study, recently published in the journal Biology, investigated how bacteria in non-photosynthetic leaf cells of seed plants can naturally provide nitrogen to plants. Currently, inorganic nitrogen fertilizers, such as ammonia or nitrate, are commonly […]
South Jersey farmers say Americans need to start buying local produce or they won’t survive
Michelle Infante-Casella, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Gloucester County
Rutgers Launches Citizen-Led Project to Combat Tick-Borne Diseases
The Center for Vector Biology (CVB), part of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, launched New Jersey Ticks 4 Science!, a citizen-led science project supported by the state that asks New Jerseyans to submit tick specimens they find to help track tick populations and help prevent tick-borne illness. “The purpose of the effort […]
Why high gas prices and COVID may help Central Jersey summer tourism business
Lauren Errickson, Rutgers Gardens
Jennifer Robertson (CC’97): Cat Woman!
Jennifer Robertson is the keeper of the Big Cat Falls exhibit at the Philadelphia Zoo. She is among the alumni acting as stewards and interpreters of nature, serving in New York City, South Dakota, and Camden. For alumna Jennifer Robertson, working at the Philadelphia Zoo isn’t like herding cats; it is herding cats. Big ones. As keeper of the Big Cat Falls […]
