Update : Follow annual flower research at Bluegrass Lane on Facebook. Images, ratings and other data from the 2009 annual flower trials at Bluegrass Lane Turf and Landscape Research Center are now available online. ...
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The Atlantic columnist and gadfly Caitlin Flanagan created quite a stir with her column Cultivating Failure: How school gardens are cheating our most vulnerable students, published in the magazine’s January/February issue. Flanagan’s main point ...
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Featuring free pizza! Thursday, January 28, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Plant Sciences student lounge and adjacent Room 151 Plant Science. Find out about courses you may not know about and want to take. Learn ...
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Join Horticulture graduate student Chad Miller for a lecture on the detailed history of the tulip, from its origin in Asia, to modern cultivation, to a bouquet on your table. The Traveling Tulip January ...
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Researchers and staff in the Department of Horticulture and Cornell Cooperative Extension educators are helping farmers across New York to tap the benefits of reduced tillage systems, including: Labor savings. Lower fuel costs. Less ...
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Fruit growers considering the organic market have two new online resources to help them: A Grower’s Guide to Organic Apples Production Guide for Organic Grapes The guides provide suggestions on everything from variety- and ...
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Via Violet Stone, Cornell Small Farms Program: The Cornell Small Farms Program is seeking an Extension Associate to join our staff. To view the position description online, visit http://www.hr.cornell.edu/jobs/ Then, click on: External Applicants ...
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From a January 6 Cornell Chronicle article: Cornell’s oldest and least energy-efficient environmental growth chambers — some dating back to the 1950s — that are used for research in the College of Agriculture and ...
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From a January 6 Cornell Chronicle article: “Creating a fruit salad for the eyes, Cornell has developed — and patented — a new ornamental flower. “Alstroemeria ‘Tangerine Tango’ is a new, winter-hardy Inca lily ...
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Jessica Westbrook (Ph.D. ’09) is serving as one of 10 science and technology fellows for the California State Legislature, according to an article in the San Jose Mercury News Top minds tapped in aid ...
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