Rutgers New Jersey Healthy Kids Initiative (NJHKI) is centered on the goal of making New Jersey kids the healthiest in the country and therefore focuses on health equity and community partnerships. The Horizon Foundation has supported NJHKI’s Culture of Health School Program for three years, providing funding to implement nutrition and physical literacy education to […]
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Rutgers Master Gardeners Never Lose Sight of Their Mission
By Nicholas Polanin, chair, Dept. of Agriculture and Natural Resources and Jan Zientek, senior program coordinator and former statewide Rutgers Master Gardener coordinator. The dozen or so seed catalogs that I’ve received in the mail and the seeds and seed starting kits appearing in my local hardware store are a reminder that gardening season is upon us. […]
Award-winning Film Highlights Rutgers Efforts to Protect Basil from Blight
Fields of Devotion provides a window into the science behind developing disease- and climate change-resistant food crops When a devastating disease wiped out New Jersey farmers’ basil fields, growers turned to Rutgers scientists for help. Now the public will be able to follow the unique partnership between local farmers and Rutgers scientists in Fields of Devotion, […]
Rutgers and NJDA Report on Strategies for Urban Agriculture in New Jersey and Launch the Urban Agriculture Web Portal
The New Jersey Department of Agriculture (NJDA) and Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) Office of Urban Extension and Engagement invite urban farmers and growers to explore, use and share the new Urban Agriculture Strategies for the State of New Jersey Report and its associated web portal. The portal and the report that frames the Garden State’s […]
AlphaRTK Announces Free Educational RTK Access for Rutgers, West Chester Universities and Warren County Community College
Rutgers University, West Chester University, and Warren County Community College Sign Agreements AlphaRTK, a four-constellation real-time kinematic (RTK) network service provider, formally announced today it will provide students and faculty of Rutgers University, West Chester University, and Warren County Community College access to its global navigation satellite system (GNSS) correction network. The AlphaRTK network launched […]
4-H Youth Camp Comes to Rutgers Gardens for Summer 2023
New day-camp option offered throughout the month of July Since 1951, New Jersey youths have gathered in Stokes State Forest in Sussex County, the northernmost county in the Garden State, for the classic overnight summer camp experience of the New Jersey 4-H Camp. The yearly ritual of campers returning summer after summer, some eventually going […]
Announcement: Jean Epiphan Joins RCE in the Agriculture and Natural Resources Department
Announcement by Nick Polanin, chair of the NJAES Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources I am very excited to announce Jean Epiphan as the newest faculty member of the ANR Department, joining the RCE team in Morristown on Feb. 1. Jean holds a Masters in Ecology and Evolution from Rutgers and a Bachelor’s in Forestry […]
Gearing Up for the Gardening Season
By William Errickson, Agriculture and Natural Resources Agent for Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Monmouth County As the days grow longer and the temperature slowly rises, a restlessness starts to build inside most gardeners. We are ready to be outside again, breathing the fresh air and tending the gardens with our hands in the earth. However, […]
FCHS Shares Wellness Tips for a Healthy New Year
By Joanne Kinsey, FCHS educator, Atlantic and Ocean counties, and Rachel Tansey, senior extension associate, Monmouth County The start of the new year is the best time to initiate your personal wellness program. Take charge of your wellness path so you can enjoy your healthiest year with a few simple action steps. The […]
A Different Way to Think About Flooding
A map of flood zones in New Jersey shows a state covered in blue, revealing that many residents live in areas susceptible to flooding. “You feel quite vulnerable looking at that map,” says Rutgers ecologist Brooke Maslo, “For sure.” The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection uses federal dollars to buy out the homeowners of […]
