One tree can absorb as much as 48 pounds of carbon dioxide per year. Trees also trap dust particles and other pollutants, and they help keep neighborhoods cool in the summer. These are just some of the many environmental benefits of planting and caring…
What Is It?
My two girls were digging under the tree on the side of our house while I furiously attempted to remove tangles of creeping charlie from our yard. And I heard my older daughter shout, “MOM! You’ve GOT to see this!”…And then I did what any red-blooded American would do: I took a picture of it with my iPhone and posted it on Facebook with the caption “What is THIS?”…I also got a bit of useful advice which was to call the Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Mercer County, a research-based educational program based in Lawrenceville. The “Extension” helps residents make informed decisions regarding quality of life, community and environment.
From Tour of Duty to Reaping the Bounty: Green Job Skills and Entrepreneurship the Focus of RCE Program for Veterans
Unemployed U.S. veterans are often an underserved, vulnerable population that can benefit from job training. Through a partnership coordinated by Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) of Essex County, unemployed New Jersey veterans have been trained through a green job skills program focused on sustainable landscaping and stormwater management. At the East Orange Veterans Affairs Hospital, veterans […]
Alumni Story: Phillip Alampi, ‘Mr. Garden State’
Editor’s Note: One of the most prestigious honors conferred on alumni of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is induction into the Hall of Distinguished Alumni (HDA). The School of Environmental and Biological Sciences is proud of its 16 HDA honorees. This is one of a series of stories about them. A first-generation American, […]
Female Farmers Focus of Webinar
In 1900, almost half of U.S. residents made their living on farms. Now it is barely 1 percent. There are about 800,000 full-time farmers in America today. According to the last census, fewer than 20 percent are women. In 2011, Annie’s Project N.J. star…
Children from HomeFront’s Camp Mercer get taste of 18th-century gardening
Children from HomeFront’s Camp Mercer got a taste of the 18th century yesterday as they explored the kitchen gardens at the William Trent House in Trenton. Throughout the day, volunteers from the Rutgers Master Gardeners of Mercer County taught the chi…
HomeStyles: Helping Parents Create Healthier, Safer Homes
Nutritional science professors Carol Byrd-Bredbenner and John Worobey and research assistant Jennifer Martin-Biggers created HomeStyles, an 18-month online program that offers quick, fun tips to educate parents of preschoolers on how to shape their homes and lifestyles. Read more at Rutgers Today.
Alumni Story: Nick Vorsa (Cook’76), Better Cranberries Through Science
Nicholi Vorsa (Cook’76, GSNB ’85) is director of the Philip E. Marucci Center for Blueberry and Cranberry Research and Extension in Chatsworth, N.J. He and his team have developed new varieties of cranberries that have offered many improvements for commercial production. The story of his work in collecting cranberry germplasm and mapping its genome appeared […]
Annual Rutgers Turfgrass Research Field Days Draws Record Attendance
On July 29-30, Rutgers held its annual Turfgrass Research Field Days at the Turf Research Farm – Hort Farm II, off Ryders Lane in North Brunswick, NJ. Over 800 industry professionals attended this record-breaking, two-day event, which has its roots in the 1920s, although regular turf field days in New Jersey did not occur annually until […]
Education wrapped up in nature’s glory makes learning fun
If the great outdoors represents the world’s largest education facility, then a small swath of land on the grounds of the city’s history weighted Trent House proved an interesting classroom…In between our oohs and ahhs of the aforementioned discovery…
