Rutgers Cooperative Extension

03/05/2026

Announcement: EARTH CENTER FREE SEMINARS

03/04/2026

Rutgers Tree Planting Festival

Please join us on April 18, 2026, for the Rutgers Tree Planting Festival, where we will be planting 3000 trees in the footprint of an abandoned roadway that was removed last year by Rutgers Institutional Planning and Operations. This will be the first Miyawaki Forest on the Rutgers University campus.

The goal of this event is to build community by collectively contributing to the environment and giving students first-hand experience in tree planting. There will be music, art, and food.

This event is open to all members of the Rutgers community and the public.

Click the link for more info:
https://urbanforestry.rutgers.edu/rutgers-tree-planting-festival/

01/15/2026

It's happening now–Rutgers Cooperative Extension 2026 Conference in full swing

11/11/2025

🚀 Big news from the sea! 🌊 The Rutgers University-led mission, in partnership with Teledyne Marine, is launching the autonomous underwater glider “Redwing” as a world's first robot designed to circle the globe and collect vital ocean data.
Full story: https://www.rutgers.edu/news/world-first-autonomous-robot-glider-circle-globe-historic-ocean-mission

10/29/2025

Rutgers Environmental Stewards Program Celebrates 20 Years of Environmental Impact!
The public is invited to join us for The 20th Anniversary Impact Summit on Saturday, November 1, at the Rutgers Douglass Student
Register to Attend Here: https://ce-catalog.rutgers.edu/coursedisplay.cfm?schID=95773

09/02/2025

Fresh Tomato Tasting Fest!

Rutgers’ Open House and Tomato Tasting took place on Aug. 27 at the Clifford E. and Melda C. Snyder Research and Extension Farm in Pittstown, N.J. More than 1,000 visitors sampled over 50 tomato varieties grown by Snyder Farm staff.

Check out the New Jersey Spotlight video featuring the star of the day — Scarlet Sunrise, a bi-color grape tomato making its public debut.

The annual event also included wagon tours of the farm and vibrant garden displays maintained by Rutgers Master Gardeners.

The sweet, crack-resistant grape tomato has been cultivated for nearly a decade, and on Wednesday the public got its first bite at the annual event in Pittst...

08/14/2025

SAVE THE DATE! Snyder Research & Extension Farm's Open House & Tomato Tasting.

Register here:
https://snyderfarm.rutgers.edu/open-house/

07/01/2025

Researchers Find Climate Change Threatens Global Food Supply -Climate scientist Robert Kopp and other members of the research team looked at global data from more than 12,000 regions in 55 nations for the study

https://sebsnjaesnews.rutgers.edu/2025/06/researchers-find-climate-change-threatens-global-food-supply/

06/05/2025

View the Agenda and Register here: https://foodinnovation.rutgers.edu/nj-food-tech-2025/

05/29/2025

The vivid pink Scarlet Fire® dogwood tree, produced through decades of research by Rutgers University-New Brunswick plant breeders, is just starting to bloom.

https://sebsnjaesnews.rutgers.edu/2025/05/plant-breeders-stage-a-dogwood-revolution-creating-hardy-varieties-that-sparkle/

05/20/2025

Rutgers Center for Vector Biology researchers reviewed studies from neighboring states and, in New Jersey, developed statewide surveillance of Rickettsia pathogens

There’s some good news in New Jersey about a potentially deadly tick-borne bacterium. Rutgers researchers examined more than 3,000 ticks in the Garden State and found only one carrying Rickettsia rickettsii, the bacterium that causes Rocky Mountain spotted fever. But cases of tick-borne spotted fe...