First-year students at Rutgers got a chance to pitch in on some community service projects in their new city before classes even began this fall. The new Start with Service program aims to build a legacy of service at Rutgers. Nutritional Sciences major Shaun Hui (SEBS 2016) discusses first year students’ introduction to the community […]
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Jersey Crowds Brave the Sunshine to Taste Tomatoes: 2014 Tomato Tasting at Rutgers Snyder Farm
Armed with plastic forks, a crowd descended upon Rutgers Snyder Research Farm in Pittstown on August 27 to attend the Annual Snyder Farm Open House and Great Tomato Tasting. Tasters had an offering of eighty varieties of tomatoes to taste from as well as basil, peaches, apples and honey. The samplings provided a glimpse of […]
NJTV News Segment on Helping Struggling Veterans Spotlights Rutgers VETS Program
In the August 28 segment of NJTV News on “Helping Struggling Veterans,” the recently launched Rutgers VETS program was featured (appears at 1:35 in video). This unique program, led by Jan Zientek, senior program coordinator for Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) of Essex County, and Amy Rowe, environmental and resource management agent, RCE Essex and Passaic […]
HomeStyles: Helping Parents Create Healthier, Safer Homes
Nutritional science professors Carol Byrd-Bredbenner and John Worobey and research assistant Jennifer Martin-Biggers created HomeStyles, an 18-month online program that offers quick, fun tips to educate parents of preschoolers on how to shape their homes and lifestyles. Read more at Rutgers Today.
2014 Rutgers Snyder Farm Open House and Great Tomato Tasting
The ever-popular annual Great Tomato Tasting at Snyder Farm continues to grow and expand, and this year there will be more to experience than ever. Hosted by Rutgers Snyder Research Farm in Pittstown, the event will take place on Wednesday, August 27 from 3 to 7:30 p.m. In addition to the 80 varieties of tomatoes […]
Rutgers Gardens Offers Relaxing Getaway
A horticultural oasis in urban/suburban Central Jersey – see what Rutgers Gardens has to offer.
National Moth Week Celebrated in New Jersey
Sixteen public events scheduled across the state; hundreds more worldwide The third annual National Moth Week, a worldwide citizen science project started in New Jersey in 2012, will be celebrated across the state, beginning with an early kickoff “Moth Ball” slated for Friday, July 11, in Bergen County. Started by the Friends of the East […]
There’s Love for Local in New Jersey
Did you know New Jersey is a national leader in the local foods movement? We wouldn’t be called the Garden State if we didn’t take our agriculture seriously. Read more on how home cooks, restaurant chefs, school children and food pantries are tapping into Jersey Fresh produce at New Jersey Agriculture.
4-H Volunteers: Share and Connect Video
Summer is the season for 4-H County Fairs. Find your County Fair and check out this video to see what being a 4-H volunteer is all about:
Trenton group on mission to get accurate count of vacant and abandoned buildings in the city
Unkempt and ugly homes virtually falling down on themselves appear on most every block in Trenton, but it has been five years since the last thorough tally of how many vacant and abandoned buildings mar the city’s streets. The Trenton Neighborhood Restoration Campaign, funded through local nonprofit Isles Inc., has embarked on a project to go block by block throughout the city identifying the status of each lot to determine how many unused buildings are out there…Sandra Grosso (landscape architecture student, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University) and Jacqui Abeltin (landscape architecture master’s program candidate), interns from Rutgers University who are helping with data collection, said city residents would like to see the building decay brought to a stop. “Everyone’s been super nice with us,” said Grosso. “They don’t like this either. They want to see change.”
