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.
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New Jersey 4-H Youth Develop Skills at Leadership Washington Focus Conference
Fifteen New Jersey 4-H youth are ready to take on the challenges of leadership in the 21st century after experiencing the vibrant, living classroom of the nation’s capital as part of Leadership Washington Focus (LWF), an intensive 4-H leadership development program for middle-school youth. The conference was held at the National 4-H Youth Conference Center […]
Rutgers Gardens Offers Relaxing Getaway
A horticultural oasis in urban/suburban Central Jersey – see what Rutgers Gardens has to offer.
National Moth Week Celebrated in New Jersey
Sixteen public events scheduled across the state; hundreds more worldwide The third annual National Moth Week, a worldwide citizen science project started in New Jersey in 2012, will be celebrated across the state, beginning with an early kickoff “Moth Ball” slated for Friday, July 11, in Bergen County. Started by the Friends of the East […]
New Jersey 4-Hers Boost Leadership and Civic Skills in Washington, D.C.
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 […]
South Plainfield Senior Center Grows Garden for Healthy Eating
As a member of the Mayors Wellness Committee, I had had an idea to incorporate Mayor Anesh’s Wellness initiatives with healthy eating for our seniors. The idea quickly grew into action in the form of a vegetable and herb garden outside the Senior Cente…
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.
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 […]
4-H’s Explorations Week Summer Program
The Middlesex County 4-H’s Explorations Week day camp program is inviting boys and girls who have completed grades 3 through 6 to participate in a week of fun and learning. The Explorations Week (E-Week) program, hosted by the Rutgers Cooperative Exten…
All in the Rutgers Family – Mother and Son Share 2014 Graduation
Graduation is a time when seniors reflect on the people they’ve encountered on campus and connected with in a variety of ways – as classmates, professors, advisors, roommates, club members, teammates and, for one SAS senior, mom. John O’Connell, an Economics major at Rutgers and his mother Christine O’Connell (SEBS ’14, Communications) are not only […]
