Rick VanVranken – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
RU Ready 2 Garden
Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Rutgers creates course to train the next generation of farmers
Brendan Pearsall – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Food Innovation Center: A Vital Resource for a Safe Food Supply Chain Amidst a Global Pandemic
The New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) 2020 Annual Report spotlights the many stories of outreach and resilience during COVID-19. To read more, see the NJAES 2020 Annual Report. As New Jersey declared a state of emergency to contain the spread of COVID-19, the food industry had to quickly adjust its go-to-market strategies and just […]
Grounded in Good Health
Stephanie Murphy, Rutgers Soil Testing Laboratory
CDC’s National Diabetes Prevention Program to be Offered Virtually by Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Shailja Mathur; Alexandra Grenci – Department of Family and Community Health Sciences
FCHS Offers CDC’s National Diabetes Prevention Program Virtually to NJ Residents
The Department of Family and Community Health Sciences (FCHS) of Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) has launched “NJ Empower to Prevent,” its version of the National Diabetes Prevention Program (NDPP) offered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This project is funded by a grant from the New Jersey Diabetes Prevention and Control Program […]
Donald Schaffner Honored with the 2021 Harold Macy Food Science and Technology Award
The 2021 Harold Macy Food Science and Technology Award was given to Donald Schaffner—extension specialist in Food Science and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Food Science—in recognition of his outstanding research to facilitate the adoption of predictive food microbiology and risk-based thinking in government and private industry to support science-based risk management and assurance […]
Plant of the Month: A Delicious Ornamental for Your Garden
by Bruce Crawford, Program Leader in Home and Public Horticulture One of the positive developments from the pandemic is the renewed interest in gardening and in particular, growing food. I have always been astonished at how many children do not know how their food is produced, other than it magically appears on grocery store […]
A delicious ornamental for your garden
Bruce Crawford – Rutgers Cooperative Extension





