The schoolyard at the Lincoln Annex School on Somerset Street in New Brunswick was abuzz on a chilly day in October. The clackety clack of a prize wheel and delighted cries of children claiming their apples and mini pumpkins gave the aura of a carnival, however this festivity was actually a health and wellness-based farmers […]
Registration open for RCE environmental stewards
Rutgers Environmental Stewards program – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Make a Difference in Your Community – Become a Rutgers Environmental Steward
Registration is open for the 2019 Rutgers Environmental Stewards program – a great gift for your family’s environmentalist or…a great way to back up your New Year’s “Green” resolution. Since 2005, hundreds of volunteers have made the commitment to protecting New Jersey’s environment by participating in the Rutgers Environmental Stewards Program. Offered by Rutgers Cooperative Extension, […]
Researcher discusses health benefits of cranberries
Amy Howell, Philip E. Marucci Center for Blueberry and Cranberry Research and Extension
Ultimate Produce Check: How fresh is it?
Richard VanVranken
Experiential Marketing – the Produce Shopper’s Alternative to Bland Online Shopping
Karen Ensle, Family and Consumer Health Sciences, RCE of Union County
Rick VanVranken, Agriculture and Natural Resources, RCE of Atlantic County
Environmental Steward program coming in 2019
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County
Bringing back hard cider in the Garden State
Megan Muehlbauer – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Bringing Back Hard Cider in the Garden State
Rutgers researcher Megan Muehlbauer is studying more than two dozen heirloom varieties of cider apples to identify which grow best in the Garden state Move over microbreweries. Megan Muehlbauer believes she has stumbled upon the next big food trend and she wants to help build a thriving industry in New Jersey. Muehlbauer, a Rutgers New […]
Brand New Trail Opens Access to Remote Section of Rutgers Ecological Preserve
The Rutgers Ecological Preserve and Natural Teaching Area is a 360-acre wooded preserve located between Busch and Livingston Campus in Piscataway. The preserve–one of the largest contiguous patches of forest in the area–is habitat to diverse wildlife including wild turkeys, pileated woodpeckers, salamanders, red tailed hawks, herons, snakes, turtles, fish and foxes. The landscape covers […]
