It’s no longer just “cows and cooking,” as the 100th anniversary of the Cooperative Extension System approaches. While originally the role of county agricultural agents and the 4-H program was helping farmers and rural youth, the system’s work is much different. The county is celebrating the anniversary of the 1914 federal Smith Lever Act, which funded outreach endeavors at Rutgers and other land-grant universities through vocational, agricultural, and home demonstration programs in rural America. Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Hunterdon is marking the anniversary the week of May 4, with a big open house on Sunday, at the Extension Center, county complex, 314 Route 12, Raritan Township. It runs noon to 3 p.m.
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Celebrating 100 Years: Gov. Christie Declares May Cooperative Extension Month in NJ
In 2014, we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Smith-Lever Act of 1914, which officially created the national Cooperative Extension System. May 8, 2014 is the primary day of the national celebration to signify the date on which the Smith-Lever Act was signed in 1914. In New Jersey, the month of May […]
U.S. Rep. Rush Holt Returns to the Cook Campus for SEBS Convocation
Rush Holt, Jr., U.S. Representative for New Jersey’s 12th congressional district will speak to the Class of 2014 during the Convocation for the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences on May 19. A member of Congress since 1999, Rep. Holt serves on the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Natural […]
Scenes from Ag Field Day 2014
Sunshine, music, food and fun – another successful Ag Field Day, part of Rutgers Day!
Rutgers’ Master Gardners Organization of Cumberland County to premier learning programs
Rutgers’ Master Gardeners Organization of Cumberland County will host learning programs that will start May 3 at Wheaton Arts. The day’s activities will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Wheaton Arts, located off Glasstown Road. The theme of the children’s table this year is “Animals of the Farm and Forest – Identifying Them by their Appearance, Tracks, and Scat.” There will be scat and track picture by tracker Kim Cabrera with pelts, skulls and more. Other activities will include a smell test, jelly bean test, tracks in the sand, animal track twister game and making track stamps.
Record breaking crowd of 84,000 plus at Rutgers Day
Sunny skies and seasonal temperatures brought a record crowd of 84,000 to the sixth annual Rutgers Day where visitors learned what the state university – with its expanded mission of medical education and transition into the prestigious Big Ten Conference – has to offer…Marissa Letinski, president of the Rutgers Undergraduate Food Science Club, spent the day at the Food Science building on the Cook/Douglass campus explaining the connection between food and science to those who dropped by for the homemade Tahitian Vanilla, Blueberries and Cream and Cappuccino Ice Cream. “Everything you eat from the supermarket, a food scientist has developed, reformulated and made healthy.” Letinksi told the crowd.
Get Ready for Rutgers Day on G.H. Cook Campus!
The Rutgers New Brunswick campus will be celebrating Rutgers Day Saturday April 26, while the spirit of the event’s origins, Ag Field Day, lives on at the George H. Cook Campus. All the original favorites of plant sales, egg toss, cockroach races, and alumni gatherings are joined by hundreds more activities which will intrigue, entertain, […]
NEW ONLINE TOOL GAUGES LOCAL, STATEWIDE THREATS FROM RISE IN SEA LEVEL
A new online tool to help assess New Jersey’s vulnerability to sea-level rise was released on Thursday, one that delivers both a micro and a macro level of information to homeowners, planners, local and state officials, first responders, and a host of …
FoodCorps NJ Member Joins First Lady Michelle Obama to Plant White House Garden
On April 2, FoodCorps New Jersey service member Alexis Sangalang joined First Lady Michelle Obama and five other FoodCorps leaders to plant the sixth season of the White House Kitchen Garden with students from Washington, D.C. Sangalang serves with the New Jersey Partnership for Healthy Kids in Camden, NJ, and works closely with Campbell’s Healthy […]
NJ Students Dive into Ocean Exploration at Rutgers Ocean Days Event April 8-9 & 11
More than 300 New Jersey school students, grades 3-12, Rutgers faculty, staff and students. Rutgers University scientists, graduate and undergraduate students will guide the students as they learn about exploring the ocean deep, Antarctic krill and penguins, ocean acidification, and much more.
