The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) has approved an agreement with the Rutgers University Agrivoltaics Program (RAP) to facilitate the development and implementation of a Dual-Use Solar Energy Pilot Program over the next three years. The Pilot Program is designed to demonstrate and study the compatibility of agricultural or horticultural production with solar […]
Announcement: Melissa Bright Appointed County 4-H Agent in Somerset County
Announcement from Rachel Lyons, chair of the Department of 4-H Youth Development. Please welcome Melissa Bright to her new role as County 4-H Agent in Somerset County, effective May 1, 2023. Melissa has served as a site director for the YMCA of Hunterdon and Bucks Counties leading a school age childcare program since 2018. For […]
BPU approves agreement with Rutgers for dual-use solar pilot program
Margaret Brennan – Rutgers Agrivoltaics Program, NJAES
Rutgers EcoComplex Improves Campus Sustainability
Serpil Guran – EcComplex
Master Gardener Plant Sale at Rutgers Day, April 29
Rutgers Cooperative Extension’s Master Gardeners
NYC restaurants, nonprofits create tasteful ways to reduce food waste
William Hlubik – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Senior Story: Alessandra Sommer (SEBS’23), First-Generation Student, Aims Higher
Alessandra Sommer (SEBS’23, Nutritional Sciences, with a Dietetics option) had her sights set on getting certification as a nutritionist so she enrolled at Union College to get her associate’s degree and then finding work immediately. She performed so well in organic chemistry that her professor at Union College urged her to aim higher and pursue […]
Growing season is coming. Here’s when to plant a garden in NJ
David Robinson – NJ State Climatologist; NJAES
Growing season is coming. Here’s when to plant a garden in NJ
David Robinson – NJ State Climatologist; NJAES
Earth Day, Every Day Spring 2023 Webinar Kicks Off New Series
Rutgers Cooperative Extension’s Earth Day, Every Day and Marine Extension Program Seminar Series present the educational webinar, “All the Small Things with Big Environmental Impacts,” beginning April 17. Open to the public, the free webinar will be conducted online via Zoom every third and fourth Monday evenings in April through June starting at 6:30 p.m. […]
