Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County and Rutgers Master Gardeners
Middlesex County
EARTH Center Open House Offers Fun for Whole Family
Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Ahoy There, Matey! Rutgers Environmental Stewards Take Their First Boat Trip on the Raritan River
By Michele Bakacs, Rutgers Cooperative Extension, County Agent II/Associate Professor Reprinted from Green Knight newsletter, May 2017 As the 2017 Rutgers Environmental Steward classes entered their final month, and with the warm weather upon us, the Middlesex County class took to the water. On May 3, Stewards got a rare opportunity to see the Raritan […]
EARTH Center offers ‘Hands on’ workshop
Master Gardeners – Middlesex County Cooperative Extension
IFNH Partners with Mason Gross to Get Middle School Students Moving with Black Grace Dance Troupe
Dance can improve health through increased physical activity. This may seem like a simple concept, but it is not always obvious. That connection was driven home this month when Rutgers brought a contemporary dance company, Black Grace, to the Greater New Brunswick Charter School. Through a joint program of the Center for Childhood Nutrition Education […]
Rutgers Cooperative Extension Participates in Lake Shoreline Restoration at Middlesex County Park
By Michele Bakacs, Rutgers Cooperative Extension, County Agent II/Associate Professor Reprinted from Green Knight newsletter, Rutgers NJAES Cooperative Extension, February 2017 Manalapan Lake in Middlesex County’s Thompson Park received an ecological makeover this past fall when 600 feet of bare shoreline were planted with native plants. This shoreline buffer was established to prevent soil from […]
‘RU Ready to Farm’ — Specialty Crops Program for beginning farmers
NJAES RCE – Middlesex County
South Brunswick: Rutgers environmental stewards make difference
Michele Bakacs – Environment Stewards Program, Middlesex County
Brooke Maslo and the Rutgers Cooperative Extension Team are Assisting Woodbridge Township in Floodplain Restoration
Brooke Maslo (SEBS’10)—assistant research professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, and wildlife and research specialist, Center for Urban Restoration Ecology—was interviewed earlier this year by Greenable Woodbridge TV. Maslo—along with the Wildlife Conservation and Management Program, and Water Resources Program within the Cooperative Extension—have been assisting Woodbridge Township in the restoration of the […]
Rutgers Environmental Stewards Program: Helping Citizens Make A Difference in New Jersey
Imagine being able to discuss climate change with the State Climatologist or learn about New Jersey’s geology from the people who map it. Would you like to learn about habitat restoration in your own community or help to improve water quality of a local river or stream? These are some of the opportunities available to […]
