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 […]
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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 […]
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.
RCE Organic Vegetable Gardening Workshop on April 6
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County offers strategies to keep your garden free of synthetic pesticides Editors’ Note: Contact David Smela by email at david.smela@co.middlesex.com or by phone at 732-398-5268. Spring is here and many area homeowners plan to take to their yard for the experience of growing their own food. But for those who […]
NJ Epsilon Sigma Phi Announces 2013 Extension Awards
In February, the New Jersey Chapter of the Epsilon Sigma Phi (ESP) honorary fraternity for cooperative extension agents announced its 2013 awards, recognizing over a dozen Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) faculty and staff. All 2013 State Epsilon Sigma Phi award winners automatically qualify as nominees for the regional and national ESP awards, which are presented […]
J&J Executive Dominic Caruso Speaks to Business Finance Students
Dominic J. Caruso, vice president for finance and chief financial officer of Johnson & Johnson admits that his journey to success was part serendipity, part planned. That also could describe his journey to the George H. Cook campus to talk to undergraduate students in the “Business Finance II” course offered through the Department of Agriculture, […]
Alumni: Plan to ‘Do Lunch’ With the Executive Dean
Are you an Ag, CAES, Cook or SEBS alum who is planning to come to the 2013 Ag Field Day at Rutgers Day? Then come “Do Lunch With the Executive Dean!” Join Executive Dean Bob Goodman and alumni lunch chairman Barry Adler (’72), for some good eats and good fun. This first-ever “new tradition” will […]
Governor’s Award Honors Camden SMART Initiative Green Efforts led by RCE Water Resources Program
In January 2013, the Camden SMART Initiative received the Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award for its efforts to promote sustainability and the use of green infrastructure to reduce flooding and combined sewer overflows in the City of Camden. The Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) Water Resources Program is a founding member of the initiative and, for the […]
Middlesex County students help seniors in growing initiative
Starting with seedlings and small plants, residents with AristaCare at Cedar Oaks have spent the past three months watching the "Growing One Seed at a Time" take root in their residence. As part of activities to mark National Horticultural Ther…
