Some recent articles of horticulture interest:
April showers bring May glowers from N.Y. growers – In this May 3 Cornell Chronicle story, Amanda Garris describes how April’s record-setting, twice-normal rainfall is affecting farmers.
Symposium briefs 4-H educators on engaging youth in citizen science – May 4 Cornell Chronicle story about how 4-H is engaging science-savvy youth in citizen science projects, including the Garden-based Learning Program‘s Vegetable Varieties Investigation citizen science project.
New director of experiment station’s ag operations focuses on sustainability – May 10 Cornell Chronicle article profiles Glen Evans ’03, M.S. ’07, Ph.D. ’10, new director of agricultural operations for the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station (CUAES) and former research support specialist in Robin Bellinder’s weed science program.
Sustainable, no-till, ag practices worked very well for Iroquois 500 years ago – May 9 article in Farm and Ranch Guide reports on Jane Mt. Pleasant‘s work documenting the high productivity of Native American farming systems.