An extensive article at the Rodale Institute website on Integrated Fruit Production (IFP) features some familiar faces here in the Department of Horticulture: “Greg Peck, a post-doctoral associate at Cornell University in Ithaca, New ...
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Once again, Department of Horticulture volunteers led by Marcia Eames-Sheavly set up flowers at venues all around campus graduation weekend. Special mention goes to the Saturday tear-down crew who got drenched in a sudden ...
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Watch out Big Apple and northern New Jersey. It looks like the viburnum leaf beetles (VLBs) are headed your way, if they’re not already in your neighborhood. Here’s what you can expect when larvae ...
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Tom Whitlow‘s work studying the effects of trees on airborne particulate pollution is one of the projects profiled in CALS Fights for Urban Well-Being in the Spring 2009 issue of CALS News. (Page down ...
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If you’ve visited the Cornell University homepage this week, chances are you saw a familiar face smiling at you from the banner: Raymond Jacobs, graduating senior, plant science major and president of Hortus Forum, ...
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From Violet Stone, NY SARE Outreach Coordinator comes the Spring, 2009 Issue of the NY Sustainable Ag Quarterly. “You will read about the many creative approaches farms and organizations in NY are taking toward ...
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From the Chronicle Online, May 13: “In a ceremony April 23, alumni and friends of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) dedicated the newly installed rooftop garden on the southern end of ...
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The Northeast Region of USDA’s Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SARE) has awarded $178,311 to a team of researchers, extension staff, and wine-grape growers to assess the economic and environmental benefits of canopy ...
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Thomas Bjorkman, vegetable- and cover-crop expert in the Department of Horticultural Sciences at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, is heading up a project to help Northeast vegetable growers use cover ...
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On May 14, graduate student Vinay Pagay (right) presented his Dreer Award seminar, chronicling his nearly year-long travels in China, India and Australia. If you missed his presentation, you can still view his PowerPoint ...
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