The Department of Landscape Architecture each year honors an alumnus/a who has contributed substantially to the landscape architecture profession. Mark J. Zarrillo, Class of 1970, is the Rutgers University Department of Landscape Architecture 2014 Outstanding Alumnus. As part of the honor, Mark was invited to the G.H. Cook Campus recently to deliver a presentation in […]
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Edison Volunteer Receives Award for Excellence as a Master Gardner
The Rutgers Cooperative Extension is recognizing two Master Gardeners as recipients of this year’s Awards for Excellence at the 2014 Middlesex County Master Gardener Fall Conference. Master Gardener Linda Larson of Edison was recognized for her efforts in the Evergreen Garden of Memories and Susan Herzig of Old Bridge was recognized for her efforts in the Breast Cancer Awareness Garden. “The Masters Gardeners work hard to make Middlesex County a more green and beautiful place,” said Freeholder Kenneth Armwood, Chair of the County’s Business Development and Education Committee.
From the Ground Up: SEBS Staff Get Lesson in Organic Land Care
As part of the SEBS Administrative Staff Community Initiative, which offers staff the opportunity to expand their knowledge of the school community and campus and get to know other staff members through a variety of activities during lunch hour sessions, an intro to Organic Land Care (OLC) was offered on October 21. Environmental and Resource […]
New Brunswick Community Farmers Market Hosts Día de los Muertos Marigold Sales, Oct. 25 – 27
The Mexican holiday Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a time to celebrate and remember loved ones who have passed. It’s also a time when bright orange marigolds, or cempzuchilt, an Aztec term, are in high demand for the annual holiday. New Brunswick has a growing community of migrants from the Mexican state […]
NJ Secretary of Ag Tours Rutgers Turf Research Farm
New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture Doug Fisher visited the Rutgers Plant Biology Research and Extension Farm in Adelphia on September 16. Faculty from the Turfgrass Breeding Project at the Rutgers Center for Turfgrass Science gave Fisher a tour of research plots and discussed types of grasses being evaluated and studied for breeding. Faculty on hand […]
Rutgers Gardens celebrates nature at Fall Festival
Rutgers Gardens hosted its annual Fall Festival over the weekend to help raise funds for the 180-acre public garden. Bruce Crawford, director of Rutgers Gardens, said the festival is a fun day out intended to serve as a fundraiser and community awareness event. “As long as the gardens have been here, there are still a number of families who don’t know we exist,” he said. “There’s nothing out front that screams ‘Rutgers Gardens.'”…The preserve, which opened in 1922, is tucked away off Ryders Lane between New Brunswick and East Brunswick.
The Hot Pepper Potential: Rutgers Ag Research Aims for Alternative Markets in New Jersey and the Region
It’s hard to be neutral about hot peppers. People often run, pardon the pun, hot or cold when it comes to these spicy meal additions. Those with “seasoned” taste buds may ply their dishes with daring degrees of spiciness, while others who fear the burn decline to indulge. But hot peppers offer more than a […]
LA Internship Provides Opportunity to Restore Historic Maplewood Park
Maplewood’s Memorial Park, designed by Olmsted Brothers firm, was in need of sprucing up. The town’s garden club created an internship where SEBS Landscape Architecture students could assist in its restoration. Read more at Rutgers Today.
New Rutgers Students Get Intro to New Brunswick Through Start with Service Program
First-year students at Rutgers got a chance to pitch in on some community service projects in their new city before classes even began this fall. The new Start with Service program aims to build a legacy of service at Rutgers. Nutritional Sciences major Shaun Hui (SEBS 2016) discusses first year students’ introduction to the community […]
Two Big Ten Universities Work to Develop Environmentally Friendly Lawns
Maintaining a lush green lawn with less inputs of water, fertilizer and pesticides is a promising reality as Rutgers turf breeders Bill Meyer, Stacy Bonos and Austin Grimshaw team up with University of Minnesota researchers in search of the finest of fine fescues. Read more at Rutgers Today.
