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.”
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2014 IFNH Food and the Human Experience Grant Series Closes out in Trenton
On April 29, against the backdrop of the historic Trenton War Memorial, over 75 of Trenton’s local community members and health professionals gathered in impassioned discussion for the final event in the grant series, Food and the Human Experience, facilitated by the New Jersey Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health (IFNH). For the past year, […]
Rutgers Cooperative Extension Service Celebrates 100 Years
A standing-room-only crowd gathered at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station of the Rutgers Cooperative Extension May 29, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Cooperative Extension Service…The Smith-Lever Act of 1914 established the Coo…
It Takes a High School: Building a Rain Garden in Hamilton Twp.
Rutgers Cooperative Extension’s Water Resources Program has been working with Hamilton Township in Mercer County to evaluate watershed and stormwater management issues and develop recommendations for improving and protecting water resources in the community. As part of the project, a demonstration rain garden was built at Hamilton High School West to manage stormwater runoff from […]
New Brunswick Girl Scout Troop Adopts Children’s Garden at Local Farmer’s Market
Roosevelt School, Junior Girl Scout Troop 82010 and the New Brunswick Community Farmers Market (NBCFM), which is administered by Rutgers Cooperative Extension, are working together to build the Children’s Garden at 178 Jones Ave., New Brunswick. The girls will work on the garden as part of their “Take Action Project” assignment, the last step they […]
Former NJ Legislator Maureen Ogden Supports Rutgers Environmental Stewards Program with Charitable Gift
By Pat Rector, Environmental and Resource Management Agent, Rutgers Cooperative Extension. Reprinted from Green Knight newsletter, May 2014. The Rutgers Environmental Stewards program is the beneficiary of a $50,000 charitable gift annuity from renowned environmentalist, conservationist and former New Jersey Assemblywoman Maureen Ogden. Ogden chose to provide the gift to the Rutgers Environmental Stewards Program […]
USDA Sec. Tom Vilsack Congratulates Cooperative Extension on 100th Anniversary
Rutgers Cooperative Extension to commemorate 100th anniversary
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Somerset County will plant a dogwood tree at the Ted Blum 4-H Center, Bridgewater in commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of Cooperative Extension on Wednesday, May 14, at 7 p.m. The public is invited. This year is th…
Cooperative Extension Celebrates its Centennial May 8
Cooperative Extension celebrates its centennial in 2014, commemorating the Smith-Lever Act, which established the Cooperative Extension Service and celebrating the impact the Extension system has made on people nationwide through life-changing education. President Woodrow Wilson signed the Smith-Lever Act into law on May 8, 1914, providing for the organization of Cooperative Extension at county, state […]
Warren County celebrates Extension’s 100th anniversary with tree planting
Celebrating 100 years of the Rutgers Cooperative Extension, past and present staff, joined by County Agricultural Agent Bruce Barbour, Freeholder Director Ed Smith and Freeholder Deputy Director Richard Gardner, planted a Rutgers-bred “Red-Beauty” dogwood tree at the Wayne Dumont Jr. Administration Building today in White Township. Secretary Milly Rice read “Trees,” a poem by Joyce Kilmer published in 1914 and inspired by a white oak at what is now the home of Rutgers University’s School of Environmental and Biological Sciences.
