In the news
Recent Cornell Chronicle articles of interest: $5 million USDA grant to advance community food systems – “Cornell will receive $1 million of a five-year, $5 million multistate project. … ‘There is tremendous opportunity at ...
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Monthly Archives: June 2011
They said it: Frank Rossi
From Can you be green and have a green lawn? in the Washington Post, June 20, 2011. “So is it possible to be environmentally sensitive and have a good lawn? Yes, according to Frank ...
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In the news
Two Cornell Chronicle articles this week from Amanda Garris: Photo exhibit features Cornell genetics-generated apple architecture in silhouette – Los Angeles artist Jessica Rath creates photographic works from the diverse arboreal architecture of Susan ...
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Potato Field Day July 7
From Don Halseth. Cornell Potato Field Day Thursday, July 7, 2011 9 a.m to 4 p.m. Thompson Vegetable Research Farm, Freeville, NY Sponsored by the Empire State Potato Growers, Inc. This potato field day ...
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Flower open house July 16-17 at Bluegrass Lane
From Melissa Kitchen: Looking for something fun to do the weekend of July 16 and 17? Come to the Flower Open House at Bluegrass Lane, Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.! ...
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They said it: Nina Bassuk
Nina Bassuk, director of the Urban Horticulture Institute, on using shrubs in perennial borders in Chronogram Magazine: “In the perennial border, you can use shrubs to cheat. For instance, a Goldmound spirea fills space ...
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Gardeners: Don’t risk tomatoes due to late blight on potatoes
Is it worth risking your home-grown tomatoes to grow a few potatoes in your vegetable garden? That’s the question Meg McGrath, plant pathologist at the Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center asks in ...
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Dilmun Hill farmstand opens Friday
Update from Alex : Regular summer farmstand schedule: Wednesdays 3 to 5 p.m. outside Mann Library on the Ag Quad. (Inside Mann if it’s raining.) From Alex Traven, Dilmun Hill Market Garden Manager. That ...
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In the news
Two noteworthy articles by Amanda Garris this week in the Cornell Chronicle: Class gives Ithaca and Geneva sites a landscape makeover reports on projects this spring by Nina Bassuk and Peter Trowbridge’s Urban Eden ...
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Sustainability awards announced
The Department of Horticulture is involved in two of the 10 interdisciplinary projects chosen for spring 2011 academic venture fund awards from the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future (ACSF). Ecologically-Sustainable Disease Management for ...
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