Environmental Steward Program – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Middlesex County
Strengthening Healthy Community Connections in New Brunswick: Farmers Market Pops up at Lincoln Annex School
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, […]
Environmental Steward program coming in 2019
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County
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 […]
Rutgers University and the New Brunswick Community Farmers Market Awarded Grant to Promote Fresh Produce
The New Brunswick Community Farmers Market (NBCFM) has been selected to receive a 2018 Farmers Market Promotion Program Grant from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), designed to increase sales of agricultural products by local farmers around the country. The market is a collaboration between Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) Cooperative Extension, Johnson […]
Hazelnuts at Rutgers Hort Farm 3 in East Brunswick
Tom Molnar and Emil Milan, Department of Plant Biology
EARTH Center open house has fun for whole family
Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Is The Produce At The Farmers Market Local? Turns Out, Not Always.
Mary Ann Schrum, Rutgers Gardens