Middlesex County residents can learn how to reduce waste and improve their soil by composting yard waste and kitchen scraps in their backyards. An overview of this waste-reducing technique will be presented at two free composting seminars held at the Middlesex County EARTH Center in Davidson’s Mill Pond Park, 42 Riva Avenue in South Brunswick. […]
Community
What’s in Season from the Garden State: Orange is the New Black Friday
VonThun Farms of Monmouth Junction, NJ, is a regular vendor at the Highland Park Community Farmer’s Market every season. As the days grow crisp and fall is in the air, VonThun’s end their participation in the community market, even though the market is open for many more weeks. Did they run out of produce and […]
Community Day 2013 Serves up Food, Festivity and Fun
Passion Puddle at Red Oak Lane on the George H. Cook Campus was teeming with festive activity on September 17 as Community Day drew close to 2,000 students, staff and faculty to the annual event. Community Day celebrates the start of a new academic year on the George H. Cook and Douglass campuses, bringing the […]
Fighting Empty Pantries and Calories: More Local Healthy Food in New Brunswick
New Brunswick Mayor Cahill Visits Community Farm Market’s Latest Location Downtown It’s lunchtime on Wednesday in downtown New Brunswick. There are plenty of establishments to grab a bite to eat – fast food places, cafes, coffee and frozen yogurt shops, but now there’s something else you can grab while downtown – all the fixings for […]
Designing Around a Mission: Architects Detail Functionality of IFNH Building
The groundbreaking of the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health (IFNH) building on the George H. Cook Campus took place on August 30. In this video by Rutgers Center for Digital Filmmaking, the Institute’s architecture firm, Ballinger Architects, sheds light on the interpretation of the IFNH mission into a physical space.
Salmonella Found in Imported Spices from India and Mexico
Donald Schaffner is a distinguished professor and an extension specialist in food science at Rutgers University. His expertise is in quantitative microbial risk assessment and predictive food microbiology; in other words, he uses math and statistics to help people understand and help manage food safety risks. In his 24 years at Rutgers, Schaffner has educated […]
Landscape classes offered in South Jersey
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Cumberland County will present four free classes in Woodstown and Millville this fall that focus on practices homeowners may use to make their landscapes more eco-friendly.
John Worobey to Head New Jersey WIC Advisory Committee
Professor John Worobey, Department of Nutritional Sciences, was elected Chair of the WIC Advisory Committee for the State of New Jersey. WIC is the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children that provides Federal support for supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and […]
Famous Author Visits Rutgers, Marks 70th Anniversary of Streptomycin Discovery
Although we hardly think about it now, tuberculosis was the scourge of industrialized nations in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Worse yet, there was no known cure, and mortality due to the disease was exceptionally high. Seventy years ago on October 19, 1943, Albert Schatz, a young scientist and graduate student in the laboratory […]
Middlesex County Master Gardener Program Now Enrolling 2013-14 Classes
A new season of Rutgers Master Gardener classes will be starting soon at the Middlesex County EARTH Center in South Brunswick, NJ. Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County will offer both daytime and evening programs. Orientation will be on Thursday Sept. 12at 6:30 p.m. for the evening class and Friday, Sept. 13 at 9:30 a.m. […]
