Rutgers Cooperative Extension announces its webinar series “Community Garden Lunch andLearn”. This series will help gardeners and garden managers meet the challenges of communitygardening during this 2020 growing season by learning strategies for growing great tastingvegetables and fruits while protecting the safety of fellow gardeners.Join us every Wednesday, starting May 27, online at noon to...
As civic leaders and urban planners work to make cities more sustainable and livable by investing in outdoor spaces and recreational activities such as biking and walking, Princeton researchers have identified the benefit of an activity largely overlooked by policymakers — home gardening. The researchers found that, across the study’s population, the level of emotional well-being,...
NOFA-NY has some great resources on COVID 19, please sign in up for their webinars! Upcoming Webinars Friday 5/1 at 10AM EST – Get Seen Online: Ten Tips For Your Food Business, hosted by CCE St. Lawrence. Register here. Wednesday 5/6 at 8PM EST – Working with Employees Under COVID, hosted by FairShare CSA Coalition. Register here....
Henry Bignell, Jr., Agriculture & Natural Resources Senior Program Coordinator Michael Westendorf, Extension Specialist in Livestock and Dairy https://njaes.rutgers.edu/fs148/
Peter Nitzsche, Agriculture and Natural Resources Agent, Morris County Steve Reiners, Former Extension Specialist in Vegetable Crops Please check out the link below for more information regarding growing vegetables in NJ
On behalf of NOFA-NJ and the Universalist Unitarian Church of Titusville, Al and NOFA-NJ would like to thank all the webinar participants for supporting our first ever webinar for NOFA-NJ. We also want to thank you for your generosity and willingness to share this content with the NJ Gardening Public. In these challenging times, we...
International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW) is being celebrated during the first full week of May and is a major educational initiative stimulating the compost industry. Its goal is to raise the public’s awareness of the benefits of using compost to help improve soil, grow healthy vegetation, reduce food waste, cut back on the use of...
A new ordinance passed in Eatontown, NJ allows residence to keep 5 chickens in their backyard lot of at least 5,000 square feet. An additional chicken can be kept for every additional 1,000 square feet. The maximum number of chickens is 12 for 12,000 square feet. Residents of Eatontown interested in keeping backyard chickens must...
