Monthly Archives: October 2009

Rotten tomatoes

An October 27 article in Cornell Alumni Magazine, Rotten Tomatoes – Anatomy of an ag epidemic, chronicles last summer’s late blight outbreak that ravaged tomatoes and potatoes in the Northeast. An excerpt: “In mid-August, ...
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They said it

By removing the least amount of existing vegetation on the Commons, we don’t have to start from scratch. We can continue to benefit from trees that have been around for 30 years in terms ...
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Chili cook-off Nov. 20

From the PPPMB Chili Cook-Off Committee (Julia Crane, John Gottula, Allison Jack and Jay Worley). It’s time to pull out grandma’s secret chili recipe because the Fifth Annual Battle of the Plant Sciences Chili ...
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