4-H – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
New Jersey 4-H Members Attend International Leadership for Life Conference in Ireland
Last month, 11 New Jersey 4-H members attended the 2018 International Leadership for Life Conference, which was hosted by Foróige at the National University of Ireland, commonly known as Maynooth University. Foróige is a youth development organization in Ireland that was formed in 1952 and is based on the 4-H youth development program mode. Now […]
Somerset County 4-H holds world record
Sue MacCombie, 4-H volunteer, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Somerset County
Somerset County 4-H Holds Guinness World Record for Longest Textile Braid
Sue MacCombie wanted to find an activity that would bring the community together, especially the members in Somerset County 4-H where she’s been a leader for the past 21 years. Little did she know she’d succeed beyond her wildest dreams and earn a world record in the process. The Longest Textile Braid, measuring an impressive […]
Montclair Community Farm gives families a hands on farm experience
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Essex County: Essex 4-H, Master Gardeners,
Montclair Community Farms project continues to bear fruit
Essex County 4-H
Somerset County 4-H Prep Program Celebrates 50 Years!
In 1968, 4-H provided hands-on learning opportunities in science, healthy living and citizenship to build life skills and leadership through club work and camps to youth in grades 4-13. At the request of Somerset County residents to expand the program to children in grades 2-3, Somerset County 4-H Agent, Ted Blum began working with volunteers, […]
4-H members gain much more than agricultural knowledge
Dave Foord – 4-H, Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Scientists spent years on a plan to import this wasp to kill stinkbugs. Then it showed up on its own.
Rutgers University entomologist Anne Nielsen and graduate student Nick Avila have been tracking the samarai wasp (Trissolcus japonicas) as a possible biocontrol agent to help manage the brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys) invasion that has been destroying crops which, in this case, are peaches in a Bridgeton, New Jersey orchard, managed by Rutgers Agricultural […]
Japanese exchange student gets a taste of the fair
4-H Exchange Program
