Rutgers University has been awarded $335,261 for “NJ Leaves No Bite Behind,” a two-year, state-funded project focused on educational interventions to reduce food waste in schools. Rutgers will pilot this first-of-its-kind environmental education curriculum for K-12 in two schools in Ocean and Passaic counties to assess an interdisciplinary, experiential program focused on sustainable food habits […]
Rutgers NJAES Beginner Farmer Training Program Kicks Off Its Second Year
Rutgers Cooperative Extension is now enrolling a new cohort of beginner farmers for this season’s training program. Now is an exciting time for beginner farmers in New Jersey—innovative new technologies and products have created new opportunities and markets for those that are just getting started. RU Ready to Farm connects beginners with a network of […]
Bred for Flavor, NJAES Researchers Release New Rutgers D’Light Strawberry
It’s been over 15 years in the making, but the team that launched the Rutgers Scarlet strawberry in 2015, has just released their second strawberry cultivar, Rutgers D’Light. Derived from plant biology professor emeritus Gojko Jelenkovic’s 30 years of testing hundreds of varieties to develop a better tasting strawberry, the Rutgers D’Light is coming to […]
RCE Food Waste Team awarded state grant
Sara Elnakib; Jennifer Shukaitis; Jeanine Cava – FCHS. Virginia Quick – Dept. of Nutritional Sciences. Amy Rose – Dept of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Join us for May’s Backyard Forestry in 90 Minutes
Joseph B. Pauli – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Rutgers NJAES Beginner Farmer program kicks off its second year
William Hlubik – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Solomon’s Seal–‘Knee Deep’ in Garden Worth Forms
Bruce Crawford
Announcement: Sara Elnakib to Lead Department of Family and Community Health Sciences
Announcement by Laura J. Lawson, Interim Executive Dean of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and Interim Executive Director of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. Dear NJAES and SEBS community, I am pleased to announce the appointment of Sara Elnakib, Department of Family and Community Health Sciences educator and department head, Rutgers Cooperative […]
New Jersey’s Temperatures Rise by 4 Degrees Fahrenheit, Twice the Global Average Since 1900
Heavy rainfall, flooding, increasing heat waves and heat-related illness are likely to become more common in New Jersey by 2100, according to a report by researchers from Rutgers University-New Brunswick, the Office of the New Jersey State Climatologist and the University of Delaware. State of the Climate: New Jersey 2021 is an annual overview for state […]
Ocean warming will scramble fish species diversity, Rutgers study says
Malin Pinsky – Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources
