For 2014, Annie’s Project New Jersey of Rutgers Cooperative Extension has announced its offering of a six-week course for greenhouse growers. This national farm business management program educates and empowers local women farmers, and since 2011 has o…
Cape May County
Cape May Tech students assist at oyster breeding site
Cape May County Technical High School senior Nate Horvath, even as he was being pelted with freezing rain, was glad to be out of the classroom. Horvath and five other seniors spent their school days this week helping move oysters at the Rutgers Cape Sh…
You Don’t Need a Horse to Participate in a 4-H Horse Club!
While the 4-H program was born over 110 years ago in the United States with a focus on corn, cooking and cows, this non-formal educational program for youth has evolved in many ways to meet the needs of more suburban states like New Jersey. For example, you can be a member of a 4-H horse […]
Food Day planned Oct. 24
The Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Cape May County is celebrating food Thursday, Oct. 24, with lunch, lectures, demonstrations and presentations. "Preserving the Harvest" is part of the third annual Food Day, a national event that will see th…
County employees learn about healthy foods
County employees learned about health food during a workshop last week. The Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Cape May County, Family and Community Health Sciences Department hosted a Healthy Eating: Avoid Salt Overload workshop for Cape May County empl…
Cape May County 4-H Offers Youth Marine Science Exploration Activities
The Cape May County 4-H Youth Development Program is offering a series of free, hands-on marine science presentations at the Ocean City Library, September 24, 27 and 30 from 3–5 p.m. For more information, call the Cape May County Rutgers Cooperative Extension 4-H Youth Development Program at 609-465-5115, ext. 610 or email Julie Karavan at […]
Oyster, Conception to Consumption [VIDEO]
This month, Art of Food explores the small but burgeoning community of oyster farmers on the Delaware Bay in Cape May, New Jersey. Rutgers University runs research labs that have been working since the oyster industry collapse in the 1950s to produce a…
Cape May 4-H’ers are Champs at State Horse Show
Future chefs
The Family and Community Health Sciences Department of Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Cape May County recently held Junior Chefs Cooking Camp for children. This pilot project incorporated nutrition education with hands-on food preparation lessons to …
NJ 4-H Teens Boost Leadership Skills and Civic Engagement at Citizenship Conference in the Nation’s Capital
New Jersey 4-H Members learned about government processes in the vibrant, living classroom of the nation’s capital as part of Citizenship Washington Focus (CWF), an intensive 4-H civic engagement program for high-school youth held at the National 4-H Youth Conference Center in Chevy Chase, Maryland. The New Jersey 4-H delegation of 30 youth and three […]
