70 high school students from across New York attended three days of workshops on leadership training, community organizing, food justice, gardening and farming methods, youth empowerment, seasonal cooking, school food, food system education, nutrition ...
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From a July 5 Cornell Chronicle article, $4.7 million USDA grant will help corn farmers reduce greenhouse gas output: “The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded $4.7 million to a Cornell-led effort to ...
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Kathryn Boor, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of Agriculture and Life Sciences, delivered the first in a series of lectures sponsored by Cornell Cooperative Extension to celebrate its centennial. Boor’s lecture focused on the ...
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Late blight lesion on tomato leaf. Click for larger view. From Meg McGrath, Long Island Horticultural Research & Extension Center. “Concern that rainy weather this spring would provide favorable conditions for late blight has ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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