From Betsy Leonard, technician, Department of Horticulture: On September 28, members of Alpha Zeta fraternity picked 40 bushels of organic peppers from research plots at the Homer C. Thompson Vegetable Research Farm, Freeville, N.Y. ...
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David Wolfe delivers the September 20, 2010 Department of Horticulture seminar on “Climate Change and Agriculture: Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation,” part of a series of talks on “Horticulture in a Changing Climate.” Climate Change ...
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Wes Jackson, President of The Land Institute, Salina, Kansas will speak on “The Necessity and Possibility of the Ecosystem as the Conceptual Tool for a New Agriculture” at the Department of Horticulture Seminar, Monday ...
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Three articles of interest from the Cornell Chronicle yesterday: CALS helps Big Red go green with a building competition – On Campus Sustainability Day, Oct. 20, CALS will launch CALS Green, an energy conservation ...
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This classic video produced in the late ’90s by Robin Bellinder, weed scientist in the Department of Horticulture at Cornell University, is now available online. The video discusses cultivators and other weed control tools ...
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From an article in the Ithaca Journal, Strong, unusually sweet N.Y. apple crop credited to ideal summer weather: “It is a wonderful year for apple quality. Fruit size is good because of the rain ...
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Despite a chilly, overcast afternoon, dozens of students learned about wine grapes and relieved some early-semester stress by stomping them into juice at the third annual ‘Grape Stomp’ sponsored by the Cornell University Viticulture ...
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A September 15 story Ithaca-Geneva department mergers strengthen CALS mission in the CALS Newsroom announced the July 1 merger of four Ithaca-based departments and four Geneva-based departments: “The Ithaca and Geneva based sister departments ...
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Students in HORT/IARD 3200 Experiential garden-based learning in Belize travel to Belize during spring break and work with a community-based organization to create school gardens, learn about the theory and practice of garden-based learning ...
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Fall is the time when gardeners plant flower bulbs for spring bloom. And this fall, the Netherlands Flower Bulb Information Center/NA is featuring a Cornell research project and website in it’s fall promotions. Spring ...
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