By Pat Rector, Rutgers Cooperative Extension, County Agent II/Associate Professor, and Tobiah Horton, Specialist in Landscape Architecture Reprinted from Green Knight newsletter, Rutgers NJAES Cooperative Extension, February 2017 Assistant professor Tobiah Horton is providing Rutgers landscape architecture students in his Design/Build studio a unique opportunity in the Spring 2017 semester. The class is “Transforming Blighted […]
Morris County
Rutgers Environmental Stewards Program: Helping Citizens Make A Difference in New Jersey
Pat Rector – Environmental and Resource Management Agent Cooperative Extension of Morris County
Rutgers 250 Celebrated in a Corn Maze!
Stony Hill Farms in Chester, New Jersey is one of several New Jersey farms that are honoring Rutgers’ 250th anniversary with a Corn Maze design. Stony Hill’s maze features the Scarlet Knight mascot and R250! Replete with five bridges, game sheets and decoder glasses, a journey through the maze teaches about what Rutgers and its […]
4-H youth from 13 N.J. counties learn about leadership
A group of 41 4-H members from 13 counties will be participating in the Discover the Leader in You! 4-H Leadership Conference being held Saturday on the George H. Cook Campus at Rutgers University in New Brunswick in Middlesex County. The conference pr…
Boonton Resident is Among Winners at County Fair
Local residents received high honors at the Morris County 4-H Fair, held on July 15-19 at Chubb Park in Chester. Youth and 4-Hers from Morris County were welcome to compete in divisions such as photography, woodworking, fine art and crafts with projects completed prior to the fair. Projects were judge based on the Danish system; awarded excellent, very good, good or fair ribbons. These judged projects were on display during the fair… Also winning big in the foods division was Boonton native Arianne Grevesen, a member of the Buckanears 4-H Small Animal Club. She received a best in show for her cannoli cupcakes in the Backed Goods Unit Grades four-eight… The Rutgers Cooperative Extension 4-H Youth Development Program uses a “learn by doing approach to enable youth to develop the knowledge, attitudes, and skills they need to become competent, caring and contributing citizens of the world.”
Rutgers breeding for sweet taste of strawberry success
Jersey Fresh strawberries are here and the plump, juicy, and delicious fruit is available now at community farmers markets, local farm markets, and pick-your-own farms throughout the state…Pete Nitzsche, Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station agricultural resource management agent, said, “Wholesale production has declined in New Jersey because of competition from large scale producers in Florida and California…” Rutgers NJAES agricultural resource management agents Nitzsche and Bill Hlubik have been running strawberry variety trials for several years on New Jersey farms.
RCE Presents Diversity and County Faculty of the Year Awards for 2013
Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) held its annual awards program at the 2013 Annual Joint Department Meeting on December 10 to recognize outstanding performances of students, faculty and staff. Among the awards given was the “RCE Diversity Award,” presented to Kenneth Karamichael, associate director of youth development at Office of Continuing Professional Education, and the RCE […]
Master Farmers tour Franklin farm growing beef, peppers, sunflowers and herbs [photos]
A group of around 50 "cream of the crop" farmers, those given the designation Master Farmer, saw sampling of agri-business in Hunterdon and Morris counties Saturday, Aug. 3, during the 2013 Mid-Atlantic Master Farmer Tour. It included the Rutge…
Master Farmers to see agri-business operations in Hunterdon, Morris
A group of around 50 “cream of the crop” farmers, those given the designation Master Farmer, will see a sampling of agri-business in Hunterdon and Morris counties Saturday during the 2013 Mid-Atlantic Master Farmer Tour. It will include the…
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 […]
