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…
Rutgers Cooperative Extension Celebrates 100 Years
Rutgers Cooperative Extension is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the passage of the Smith-Lever Act, the legislation which officially created the national Cooperative Extension System. A reception will take place May 29 at 7:00 p.m. at the Rutgers…
Four SEBS Faculty Honored by Rutgers for Teaching, Research, Service and Diversity Initiatives
Members of the Rutgers community who have made outstanding contributions in the classroom, to their disciplines or for the benefit of the community or world were honored during a May 7 reception at the Rutgers Visitor Center in Piscataway. Four SEBS/NJAES faculty members, Josh Kohut, Mark Robson, Pam McElwee and Dave Robinson, were among 35 […]
Former NJ Legislator Maureen Ogden Supports Rutgers Environmental Stewards Program with Charitable Gift
By Pat Rector, Environmental and Resource Management Agent, Rutgers Cooperative Extension. Reprinted from Green Knight newsletter, May 2014. The Rutgers Environmental Stewards program is the beneficiary of a $50,000 charitable gift annuity from renowned environmentalist, conservationist and former New Jersey Assemblywoman Maureen Ogden. Ogden chose to provide the gift to the Rutgers Environmental Stewards Program […]
NJ 4-H Agents Association Recognizes Rutgers Marine Science Educators with Statewide Award
Carrie Ferraro and Sage Lichtenwalner of the Rutgers Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences were recently recognized by the New Jersey Association of 4-H Agents with the 4-H Educator of the Year Award for their significant contributions to the 4-H program. This award is given to individuals or groups in recognition of outstanding professional education […]
Care of Pohatcong Native Arboretum in new hands
In March 2002, Antonio Pasquini, Rutgers University professor Mark C. Vodak and a few colleagues received four grants for eco-restoration projects in Warren County. “At the time, me and Jeff Stevens were dealing with an arboretum, while trying to find tree labels, and (Stevens) said, ‘Why don’t we make our own,'” Pasquini said…The founder and developer of the Pohatcong Native Arboretum handed the home of 143 tree, plant and shrubbery species over to representatives of the Warren Hills Regional High School, Rutgers Cooperative Extension and Washington Township, N.J…Pasquini also found professional assistance in Warren County Agricultural Agent Bruce Barbour, who first got involved six months ago and plans to stay on the project to help find Pasquini’s replacement coordinator.
USDA Sec. Tom Vilsack Congratulates Cooperative Extension on 100th Anniversary
Rutgers Cooperative Extension to commemorate 100th anniversary
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Somerset County will plant a dogwood tree at the Ted Blum 4-H Center, Bridgewater in commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of Cooperative Extension on Wednesday, May 14, at 7 p.m. The public is invited. This year is th…
The Fun and Sex of Shellfish Restoration
Wet, dirty sex – that’s the topic for discussion of an upcoming class. “It’s the sex talk,” admitted Gef Flimlin, professor and marine extension agent of the Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Ocean County. “Now, the average guy is really interested because he sees those three letters: S, E, X.” This class is the second for ReClam the Bay, the nonprofit organization that is affiliated with the Barnegat Bay Shellfish Restoration Program sponsored by Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Ocean County. The class will feature Flimlin discussing how spawning happens in the clam hatchery – the sex part. Flimlin said the class will go from spawning all the way to harvesting.
Cooperative Extension Celebrates its Centennial May 8
Cooperative Extension celebrates its centennial in 2014, commemorating the Smith-Lever Act, which established the Cooperative Extension Service and celebrating the impact the Extension system has made on people nationwide through life-changing education. President Woodrow Wilson signed the Smith-Lever Act into law on May 8, 1914, providing for the organization of Cooperative Extension at county, state […]
