Now in its eighth year, the Barnegat Bay Shellfish Restoration Program (BBSRP) has enrolled another round of volunteers who are trained to conduct educational outreach and expand the effort to grow hard clams and oysters in land-based nurseries along the bay. These hard clams and oysters are eventually transferred into the bay. BBSRP is a […]
Northeast Cooperative Extension Directors Honor Rutgers Program
A Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) Cooperative Extension program designed to conduct research and outreach programming on the marketing and production potential of new ethnic crops for East Coast farmers was honored at the annual meeting of the Northeast Extension Directors held July 8 at Cornell University. The program, An Integrated Multistate Research […]
Rutgers Food Innovation Center Client Jin+Ja Wins Gold at the 2013 Fancy Food Show
Reuben Canada, CEO of Canada Enterprises and creator of Jin+Ja Drink was thrilled to learn his product would take home the gold at the 2013 Summer Fancy Food Show, hosted by the Specialty Food Association. The gold standard, the Specialty Outstanding Food Innovation (sofi) Award in the specialty food industry, is one of the greatest […]
Get to Know Rutgers NJAES: Spotlight on the Food Innovation Centers
Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) off-campus research centers are sometimes located in remote parts of the state, providing limited opportunity for others to know the scope of their work. In the “Get to Know Rutgers NJAES” series, we’ll take a look at these centers and find out what they do. The Food Innovation […]
That Lawless Stream [audio]
The Mississippi River is central to the American landscape and imagination. And for centuries, it has served as a battlefield in which our most complicated social and economic struggles have played out. So in this episode, the Guys set out to explore t…
Get to Know Rutgers NJAES: Spotlight on the EcoComplex
Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) off-campus research centers are sometimes located in remote parts of the state, providing limited opportunity for others to know the scope of their work. In the Get to Know Rutgers NJAES Series, we’ll take a look at these centers and find out just what they do. Serpil Guran, […]
Minimizing student loans: Professors, experts offer tips
You’ve just graduated college. You’re elated, proud, relieved. But when do you have to start paying back your student loans? In most cases, payments start six months after graduation, and unless a solution is found before July 1, the interest rates on …
Rutgers Professor Returns to South America to Train Small-Scale Shadehouse Farmers
One year ago, Rutgers specialist in farm management Robin Brumfield found herself enjoying the cooling spray of the brackish brown water as she sped along in a 15-seater speedboat on the Essequibo River. The “Mighty Essequibo” as it’s called, is the third largest river on the continent of South America and the largest in Guyana, […]
Rutgers Hosts 2013 Liberian Studies Association Conference
The state of affairs in the West African Republic of Liberia can be summed up by a mix of adage and metaphor, “It takes a village to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.” But the country, which faces a multitude of economic, social, technological and environmental woes even as it struggles to redevelop after back-to-back […]
USDA Grant Awarded For Rutgers Center to Continue “Farm to School” Project
Source: New Jersey Department of Agriculture New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture Douglas H. Fisher announced the state has received a $62,713 U.S. Department of Agriculture Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program grant to continue work with Rutgers Food Innovation Center (FIC) – South on a project to bring Made with Jersey Fresh items to schools throughout the […]
