Middlesex County’s EARTH Center invites you to learn about local agriculture and the environment.

Now your school group, scout troop or senior’s club can take a guided tour at the Middlesex County EARTH Center to learn about these topics and more. These educational guided tours take place at Davidson’s Mill Pond Park in South Brunswick, N.J., and are available by request for a nominal fee. Tour content can be tailored to suit your group’s interests and needs.

The EARTH Center demonstration areas include a 1000 square foot vegetable garden, a 13-bed herb garden and a water conserving rain garden just to name a few. These demonstrations are used to spark conversation about local agriculture, basics of horticulture, Integrated Pest Management, earth-friendly gardening techniques and many topics that are the focus of the Extension Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Department.  Visitors can also find out more about the 4-H Youth Development program in Middlesex County while visiting the EARTH Center. 

If you are not familiar with your local Extension office, it is part of a nationwide network that brings the research of the state land-grant universities to local people. Rutgers Cooperative Extension offices throughout New Jersey are cooperatively funded by; the County Board of Chosen Freeholders, Rutgers University - New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Even if you can’t visit the EARTH Center this season, you can still get great vegetable gardening tips plus information on the infamous Asian Longhorn Beetle at the Middlesex County Extension website, just visit www.co.middlesex.nj.us/extensionservices and click on "Educational Video."

For more information call 732-398-5262.