As an independent study project, viticulture and enology majors Melissa Aellen and Gillian Trimber are turning pumpkins into wine. They peeled, chopped and milled cooking pumpkins at the teaching winery at Cornell Orchards. Then ...
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In How Long Does a Pumpkin Last? (The Salt, NPR’s food blog, Oct. 24), Steve Reiners offers tips for how to make your pumpkin — carved or not — last longer. Researchers get grants ...
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From New York schoolchildren use high tunnels to grow veggies by Elisabeth Rosen, Cornell Chronicle, October 26, 2011. “With help from Cornell horticulture faculty members, children in six New York state schools are or ...
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From Frank Rossi, who introduces students to plants grown for foods, beverages, fiber, aesthetics and recreation in HORT 1101 (Horticultural Science and Systems). View more HORT 1101 posts. This week, our HORT 1101 students ...
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From Alan Lakso: Acta Horticulturae 903 was published in August. This was the proceedings from the 9th International meeting in Geneva in 2008 of the joint International Society for Horticultural Sciences working group meeting ...
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In addition to being featured in the Cornell Chronicle, two recently funded grape projects totally $4.5 have gotten more great ink: A news release from Sen. Charles Schumer‘s office. Reports in the Wine Enthusiast ...
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Some recent videos of interest … If you missed Mark Mazzola’s seminar Monday on ‘Biofumigation’: It may be more about biology than fumigation, you can view it below. Here’s 2011 Frank T. Rhodes Class ...
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In a memo today, Dean Kathryn Boor announced this year’s CALS Research and Extension and the Core Value Staff awards. Among the winners, Bruce Reisch (right). Bruce will receive the Award for Outstanding Accomplishments ...
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With advice from turf specialist Frank Rossi, Gilad Meron (DEA ’12) installed a little lawn in the northeast corner of Mann Library‘s lobby. From the signage: Yes, it’s real grass. Yes, you can sit, ...
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If you missed Ken Mudge’s seminar Gourmet mushrooms as an agroforestry/forest farming crop for the Northeast on Monday, you can view it below:
