Announcement by Sara Elnakib, chair of the Department of Family and Community Health Sciences. I’m delighted to welcome Jennifer Salt Taylor as our new FCHS Educator in Passaic County who will focus on supporting equitable and sustainable community food systems in the county. Jennifer has focused her professional life on community nutrition and increasing access […]
Announcement: Melissa Bright Appointed County 4-H Agent in Somerset County
Announcement from Rachel Lyons, chair of the Department of 4-H Youth Development. Please welcome Melissa Bright to her new role as County 4-H Agent in Somerset County, effective May 1, 2023. Melissa has served as a site director for the YMCA of Hunterdon and Bucks Counties leading a school age childcare program since 2018. For […]
FCHS Shares Wellness Tips for a Healthy New Year
By Joanne Kinsey, FCHS educator, Atlantic and Ocean counties, and Rachel Tansey, senior extension associate, Monmouth County The start of the new year is the best time to initiate your personal wellness program. Take charge of your wellness path so you can enjoy your healthiest year with a few simple action steps. The […]
Caring for your plants in the winter
Joel Flagler – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Middlesex County 4-H Project GIFT Celebrates 25 Years of Giving!
Middlesex County 4-H’s annual Project GIFT Holiday charitable event provides a free day of holiday shopping for more than 130 families in need in Middlesex County, serving children from infants to age 18. This year Project GIFT celebrates 25 years of giving. More than 75 4-H teens assisted with the fundraising and running of this […]
Middlesex County 4-H Project GIFT celebrates 25 years of giving!
Middlesex County 4-H
Delma Yorimoto is New FCHS Senior Program Coordinator in Hudson County
Announcement by Sara Elnakib, chair of the Department of Family and Community Health Sciences. I am delighted to welcome Delma Yorimoto to SEBS/NJAES-RCE as our new Family and Community Health Sciences Senior Program Coordinator in Hudson County. Delma will lead our produce prescription, nutrition security and food policy efforts in Hudson County in this role. She will […]
Jersey Proud: Morris County 4-H Rocketry Club become finalists in NASA competition
Morris County 4-H Rocketry Cl
Indoor Gardens: Just for the Health of It
Celebrating National Indoor Plant Week – By Joel Flagler The relationship between people and plants has been many thousands of years in the making. We have been interacting with plants long before the term “horticulture” was conceived. Our earliest ancestors relied on plants to survive. They learned to recognize which vegetation offered the likelihood of finding […]
Labor Day Weekend Gardening
Joel Flagler – Rutgers Cooperative Extension