Want a great way to get new gardening ideas, learn, have fun and make new friends? Attend a Master Gardener County tour throughout New Jersey! On May 26, the tour kicked off at Mercer County Educational Gardens when the Master Gardeners of Somerset County came to visit. They learned about the site’s history, challenges […]
Members of the Stitch-n-Snip 4-H sewing club made tug toys for the Hamilton Township Animal Shelter. This easy project uses recycled scrap fleece fabrics. Braiding the fabrics together makes a fun, durable dog toy! The club members enjoyed making this no-sew project. This year’s community service projects included: holiday angels and stars for Morris Hall […]
On a lovely Friday evening in June, over 100 students, parents, and staff from Parker Elementary School enjoyed a fun night of baseball at the Arm & Hammer Park Trenton Thunder game. FCHS worked with the school principal and Trenton Thunder staff to celebrate the school’s year-long health and wellness activities with a pre-game announcement. […]
In an ongoing series of STEM workshops with the Children’s Home Society (CHS), Mercer County 4-H visited a group of sixteen youth in Trenton. Last month, we built a robot, learned about its components, and did some light control. This time, we set out to combine computer science and robotics! First, the sixteen youth each […]
Rutgers Master Gardeners of Mercer County held their first public event since the start of the pandemic. On Saturday, May 14, the Spring Plant Expo and Garden Market returned to Mercer Educational Gardens. The event highlighted home-grown perennials, trees, and shrubs donated by Master Gardeners. Over 2,200 plants were shared with the public. Along with […]
