Rutgers Cooperative Extension is now enrolling a new cohort of beginner farmers for this season’s training program. Now is an exciting time for beginner farmers in New Jersey—innovative new technologies and products have created new opportunities and markets for those that are just getting started. RU Ready to Farm connects beginners with a network of […]
Middlesex County
RU Ready 2 Garden Webinars return for spring of 2022
Rutgers Cooperative Extension
All You Have To Do Is Leave Your Porch Light On: Local Citizen Science Initiative Goes International
It’s night in the woods. Flashlight beams dart through the trees. Moonshiners? A cult? Neither. It’s Moth Night, and a bevy of moth seekers armed with flashlights, blacklights, mercury vapor lights, and white sheets are illuminating the wondrous, nocturnal Lepidoptera alighting among the trees. This scene has been witnessed annually in East Brunswick, New Jersey, […]
Middlesex County’s EARTH Center Garden and Arts Fest
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County’s Master Gardeners
NBCFM celebrates National Farmers Market Week
Ellen Williams, 4-H Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Lauren Errickson, New Brunswick Community Farmers Market
New Brunswick Community Farmers Market Celebrates National Farmers Market Week with Youth Activity
A project of Rutgers Cooperative Extension, Johnson & Johnson, and the City of New Brunswick, the New Brunswick Community Farmers Market (NBCFM) increases fresh fruit and vegetable access for local residents while supporting New Jersey farmers. The markets are open three days per week at two locations in the city, providing opportunity for multiple farms to sell their products. Vendors accept SNAP as […]
New Rutgers program hopes to grow a new generation of NJ farmers
Brendon Pearsall – Rutgers Cooperative Extention
RU Ready 2 Garden webinar, April 8
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County wants to help you grow quality food for your family and friends with the return of their weekly webcast RU Ready 2 Garden. New Jersey Agricultural Experiment station experts and their colleagues will of…
RU Ready 2 Garden webinars return for spring 2021
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County wants to help you grow quality food for your family and friends with the return of their weekly webcast RU Ready 2 Garden. New Jersey Agricultural Experiment station experts and their colleagues will of…
Middlesex County develops interactive map for discovering local growers and products ‘Grown in Middlesex County’
William T. Hlubik – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
