3. Local Access Transformational Education ONLINE Nutrition ENERGY
webinars
Land-grant
University System
national network
HORTICULTURE
ONLINE
Local Access
seminars
ENVIRONMENT
Agriculture
Nutrition
Transformational
Education
Small Business
HEALTHY
PEOPLE
community economic vitality
FAMILY WELL-BEING
FOOD
SAFETY
4-H youth development
learning tools
Translating research
URBAN
civic engagement
TRUSTED
RESOURCE
ask-an-expert
water conservation
Disaster preparedness
FORESTRY
All 50 states
District of Columbia
U.S. territories
Leadership
Development
ENERGY
farming
train the
trainer
aquaculture

4. Ensure healthy lifestyles; provide productive futures for youth, adults, and communities; enhance and protect environmental resources; ensure economic growth and agricultural sustainability; and improve food safety and nutrition.
The program thrust areas include:
Economic Growth and Agricultural Sustainability
Healthy Lifestyles
Human and Community Development
Environment and Natural Resources
Food Safety and Nutrition

5. Family & Community Health Sciences

6. Nutrition Education
The Expanded Food Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)
- Delivered behaviorally focused, outcome-based nutrition education classes

7. 4-H Youth Development Program

8. Youth Farm-Stand Program

10. Master Gardener Program
- 18 active county programs
- Approx. 2,100 active Master Gardener volunteers
- More than 5,000 NJ residents trained as Master Gardeners
- 136,672 total volunteer hours
Annual volunteer value of Master Gardener efforts
More than $3,000,000

11. Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

12. Rutgers Against Hunger
RAH
A university-wide initiative working to address the issue of hunger across the state of New Jersey.
Increase awareness of hunger, encourage activism and service to tackle hunger, stimulate research to assist those in need, and provide immediate relief through food drives and other events to raise money and collect food.
Enlist the assistance of Rutgers students, faculty, staff, alumni, and the concerned public in efforts to stock food banks, provide consumer education on nutrition, deliver technical and organizational support to community groups, and conduct research toward improving food production, packaging, and distribution.
Since its inception in 2008, RAH has raised over 283,000 pounds of food and $310,000 to help alleviate food insecurity in New Jersey.