The Robbinsville-Hamilton Sunrise Rotary Club has partnered with other clubs in Rotary International District 7510, Rutgers University, Rutgers NJ Agricultural Experiment Station and Rutgers Cooperative Extension in a unique, hands-on gardening program…
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New Brunswick Girl Scout Troop Adopts Children’s Garden at Local Farmer’s Market
Roosevelt School, Junior Girl Scout Troop 82010 and the New Brunswick Community Farmers Market (NBCFM), which is administered by Rutgers Cooperative Extension, are working together to build the Children’s Garden at 178 Jones Ave., New Brunswick. The girls will work on the garden as part of their “Take Action Project” assignment, the last step they […]
Groups partner to plant garden
The Hammonton Green Committee has partnered with the Rutgers Master Gardeners of Atlantic County and The Eagle Theatre to develop a native plant garden to celebrate the region’s environment and help mark the 100th anniversary of The Eagle Theatre. Volu…
Made for the Shade: LA Students Create Twig Arbor Picnic Area at Rutgers Gardens
The Rutgers Gardens Farmers’ Market has added a new shaded picnic area in the woods adjacent to the marketplace at Rutgers Gardens, thanks to the efforts of the sophomore landscape architecture studio at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. Under the direction of Holly Nelson, instructor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and a […]
Landscape Architecture Students Propose Designs for Helyar House
The landscape at Helyar House, which is located on George H. Cook Campus in the woods off College Farm Road, has been neglected for years but several Rutgers Landscape Architecture students want to fix that. Helyar House, built in 1968 and named for former Prof. Frank Helyar who was then the Director of Resident Instructor, […]
Rutgers Master Gardeners to host plant sale in May
The 12th annual plant sale will be held at the Monmouth County agricultural building, 4000 Kozloski Road, Freehold Township, May 16-17. The plant sale is the annual fundraiser for the Rutgers Master Gardeners of Monmouth County. Funds raised help the M…
Herb Day celebration includes plant sale
The Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County will celebrate National Herb Day with the Ask a Master Gardener event and plant sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 3, rain or shine, at the 4-H Youth Center, 645 Cranbury Road, East Brunswick…This ev…
Rutgers’ Master Gardners Organization of Cumberland County to premier learning programs
Rutgers’ Master Gardeners Organization of Cumberland County will host learning programs that will start May 3 at Wheaton Arts. The day’s activities will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Wheaton Arts, located off Glasstown Road. The theme of the children’s table this year is “Animals of the Farm and Forest – Identifying Them by their Appearance, Tracks, and Scat.” There will be scat and track picture by tracker Kim Cabrera with pelts, skulls and more. Other activities will include a smell test, jelly bean test, tracks in the sand, animal track twister game and making track stamps.
Graduate Student Lisa Beirn Receives Fellowship from Golf Course Association
Lisa Beirn is one of three recipients of a $5,000 postgraduate grant by the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, as part of the Watson Fellowship Program. Beirn, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, also recently won a 2013 Gerald O. Mott Scholarship for Meritorious Graduate Students in Crop Science, […]
Rutgers Master Gardeners Of Monmouth County to hold plant sale
What are the Rutgers Master Gardeners of Monmouth County and what do they do? The mission of the Rutgers Master Gardeners is to provide gardening, pest and horticultural education to the public…The 12th annul plant sale will be held Friday, May 16 9 …
