The Department of Environmental Protection announced the launch of an online mapping tool that will help the public, stakeholders and government officials advance work that is needed to bolster the resilience of New Jersey’s coastal areas to climate change. The Coastal Ecological Restoration and Adaptation Planning Tool (CERAP Tool), provides the locations of at-risk areas, […]
DEP Marks Climate Week in New Jersey by Unveiling Climate Change Learning Stations In Four State Parks
Editor’s note: Photo documentation stations resulted from a partnership with Rutgers DMCS, JC NERR, NOAA, and the MyCoast New Jersey website. This article first appeared on the DEP website. Marking Climate Week in New Jersey, Environmental Protection Commissioner Shawn M. LaTourette unveiled the first of five Climate Change Learning Stations in New Jersey’s state parks […]
Rutgers Synder Farm Hosts 2023 Open House and Tomato Tasting
On August 30, Rutgers Snyder Research and Extension Farm hosted its Open House and Tomato Tasting in Pittstown, New Jersey. Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway and NJAES Executive Director Laura Lawson joined a large crowd of loyal tomato-lovers at the annual event. With paper dishes and plastic forks in hand, visitors sampled more than 50 tomato […]
Agritourism: Fall Season Offers Bountiful Reasons to Visit a Farm
By Michelle Infante-Casella, Agricultural Agent, Rutgers Cooperative Extension, Gloucester County What is agritourism? Webster.com defines agritourism (agriculture plus tourism) as “the practice of touring agricultural areas to see farms and participate in farm activities.” There are other names for agritourism– “agritainment,” “rural tourism” and “farm visits.” All are a form of commercial enterprise that links […]
K-12 Students Participate in Immersive Forest Management STEM Experience at Rutgers
Shreya Dutt, a high school student in East Brunswick, was fascinated by the topic of controlled application of fire used by experts to manage forests that she developed a video for use in her local library and as part of her YouTube channel. Shreya was one of 20 high students who spent two Saturdays over […]
Middlesex County’s Garden Arts and Music Festival – A Celebration of Master Gardeners and Turning the County Green
Rutgers Master Gardeners
Want to try 50 of N.J.’s best tomatoes? Check out Rutgers’ Great Tomato Tasting.
Peter Nitzsche – Snyder Farm, New Jersey Agricultural Research Station
So, Where Are All the Spotted Lanternflies?
George Hamilton; Anne Nielsen – Rutgers Cooperative Extension; Dept. of Entomology
‘Fields of Devotion’ Connects New Jersey Communities to Rutgers Research
James Simon; Dena Seidel — Department of Plant Biology
Announcement: Welcome Tess Stahl as a new Assistant Extension Specialist
Announcement by Nicholas Bello, chair of the Department of Animal Sciences, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. I’m pleased to introduce Dr. Tess Stahl to the SEBS/NJAES community. Tess started on September 1, 2023 as an Assistant Extension Specialist in the Department of Animal Sciences. She is New Jersey native from Hackettstown, NJ. Tess has an […]
