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
RU Ready 2 Garden webcast returns
Bill Hlubik – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
New Jersey Food Democracy Collaborative Urges Food System Action in Two New Reports
The New Jersey Food Democracy Collaborative (NJFDC), a statewide policy network of which Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) is a part, has released two companion reports on the future of New Jersey’s food system. The reports, “NJ Roadmap for Food System Resilience” and “The New Jersey Food System in a Nutshell,” are based on public input. […]
