Rutgers Food Innovation Center South, under a grant from the US Department of Agriculture, is at the cutting edge of creating healthier meals for school cafeterias. Bridgeton High School students visited the center in Cumberland County to sample and rate the foods. The recipes include produce from New Jersey farms and ingredients manufactured by companies in […]
Feeding a Generation at Risk
Feeding a Generation at Risk explores New Jersey’s agriculture and food distribution system from urban and rural perspectives with an awareness of the dire need to close the gap between those who have access to healthy food and those who don’t. Our story features the hard working families, community leaders, famers and researchers who are working […]
Rutgers Offers Women’s Farm Business Program
Rutgers Cooperative Extension is offering a women’s farm business management program. RCE will present Annie’s Project: Farm Women Conference in three locations on Feb. 20, 21 and 22, 2013. This single day, intensive training session and networking opp…
Toscano, Showplace receive awards from Rutgers
When Linda Toscano was a kid, she fell in love with horses. Her mother, she jokes, might have been hoping for a different outcome. "Mom suggested horseback riding lessons," Toscano said Tuesday night as she received the Rutgers Equine Science C…
Finishing What He Started: Cancer Doesn’t Stop Golf Turf Management Student
After completing his first year of the two-year certificate program at the Rutgers Professional Golf Turf Management School, Keith ‘Skip’ Douglass returned home to Arizona and got some bad news: he had leukemia. He bravely battled the disease and seemed to recover. But just a few weeks before he was due back at Rutgers this […]
Conference Focuses on Obesity in New Jersey
On December 11, several national and statewide speakers will present the latest research and innovative techniques to battle the obesity epidemic and outline important next steps for New Jersey at a one-day conference that addresses obesity prevention. Rutgers Department of Family and Community Health Services (FCHS) and the New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition and […]
After the Storm, Not All Wood is Fit for Firewood
Nick Polanin, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Somerset County agricultural agent, gives advice on preparing firewood from trees damaged by Hurricane Sandy. Read the article at MyCentralJersey.com.
Brian Schilling Receives Two Cooperative Extension 2012 Recognition Awards
Each year, Rutgers Cooperative Extension, a unit of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES), honors faculty and staff for their outstanding work and outreach through their programs and support. The winners for 2012 received their awards at the joint department luncheon at the Cook Campus Center on Nov. 27. Brian Schilling, assistant extension specialist […]
Somerset County 4-H raises funds for hurricane relief
Bridgewater residents and Somerset County 4-H’ers raised funds for Lavallette Elementary School and Frog Pond Elementary School in Little Egg Harbor Township.
Horse Sense: Karyn Malinowski’s Unique Contribution to Equine Science
Rutgers Equine Science professor Karyn Malinowski (CC’75, GSNB’80,’86) has contributed to equine science in many ways. Read how one of her contributions leaves a legacy.
