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 […]
Warren County celebrates Extension’s 100th anniversary with tree planting
Celebrating 100 years of the Rutgers Cooperative Extension, past and present staff, joined by County Agricultural Agent Bruce Barbour, Freeholder Director Ed Smith and Freeholder Deputy Director Richard Gardner, planted a Rutgers-bred “Red-Beauty” dogwood tree at the Wayne Dumont Jr. Administration Building today in White Township. Secretary Milly Rice read “Trees,” a poem by Joyce Kilmer published in 1914 and inspired by a white oak at what is now the home of Rutgers University’s School of Environmental and Biological Sciences.
Hunterdon cow-breeding innovation changed the nation
It’s no longer just “cows and cooking,” as the 100th anniversary of the Cooperative Extension System approaches. While originally the role of county agricultural agents and the 4-H program was helping farmers and rural youth, the system’s work is much different. The county is celebrating the anniversary of the 1914 federal Smith Lever Act, which funded outreach endeavors at Rutgers and other land-grant universities through vocational, agricultural, and home demonstration programs in rural America. Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Hunterdon is marking the anniversary the week of May 4, with a big open house on Sunday, at the Extension Center, county complex, 314 Route 12, Raritan Township. It runs noon to 3 p.m.
Celebrating 100 Years: Gov. Christie Declares May Cooperative Extension Month in NJ
In 2014, we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Smith-Lever Act of 1914, which officially created the national Cooperative Extension System. May 8, 2014 is the primary day of the national celebration to signify the date on which the Smith-Lever Act was signed in 1914. In New Jersey, the month of May […]
Rutgers Master Gardeners to host plant sale in May
The 12th annual plant sale will be held at the Monmouth County agricultural building, 4000 Kozloski Road, Freehold Township, May 16-17. The plant sale is the annual fundraiser for the Rutgers Master Gardeners of Monmouth County. Funds raised help the M…
Herb Day celebration includes plant sale
The Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County will celebrate National Herb Day with the Ask a Master Gardener event and plant sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 3, rain or shine, at the 4-H Youth Center, 645 Cranbury Road, East Brunswick…This ev…
Scenes from Ag Field Day 2014
Sunshine, music, food and fun – another successful Ag Field Day, part of Rutgers Day!
Rutgers’ Master Gardners Organization of Cumberland County to premier learning programs
Rutgers’ Master Gardeners Organization of Cumberland County will host learning programs that will start May 3 at Wheaton Arts. The day’s activities will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Wheaton Arts, located off Glasstown Road. The theme of the children’s table this year is “Animals of the Farm and Forest – Identifying Them by their Appearance, Tracks, and Scat.” There will be scat and track picture by tracker Kim Cabrera with pelts, skulls and more. Other activities will include a smell test, jelly bean test, tracks in the sand, animal track twister game and making track stamps.
Honeybees Took a Beating During Brutal Winter
With wind gusts in excess of 30 mph buffeting him, Gary Schempp struggled to check the health of his honeybee hives. The insects, enduring another day imprisoned in their hives by the uncooperative weather, reacted to Schempp’s intrusion with a few well-placed stings to his left eyelid, left ear and upper lip…”Severe cold is a problem, but what is worse are dramatic fluctuations in temperature that we often have in South Jersey during the winter,” said Jenny Carleo, agricultural and resource management agent with the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station in Cape May Court House. “Insect activity is largely governed by temperature.
Four area incubator companies cited for success
Four Burlington County businesses were among 18 high-performing companies cited Friday at the second annual Business Incubation Awards held at the Rutgers EcoComplex on Florence-Columbus Road. The award-winning companies were from a wide range of indus…
