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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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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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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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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If you missed Jane Knight’s lecture, The Power of Plants: The Eden Project and Beyond, you can now view the video: Visit the Eden Project website.
Assistant professor Neil Mattson and technician Tim Putzke load vegetable transplants bound for Tompkins Community Action (TCA). Mattson grew nearly 5,000 transplants to be distributed through TCA to 100 low-income households, many of whom ...
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From graduate student Vinay Pagay: Chair Marvin Pritts took a group of horticulture graduate students to Shindagin Hollow State Forest on Friday, May 20, for an afternoon hike to observe some natural vegetation — ...
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From Allison Chatrchyan, CCE-Dutchess County amc256@cornell.edu: Cornell University faculty, staff and Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) educators recently formed a new Program Work Team (PWT) to develop and disseminate information on how climate change will ...
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Fifth in a series of profiles celebrating the Class of 2011. Majors: Plant Sciences, Viticulture and Enology Hometown: Rochester, N.Y. Why did you choose Cornell? I was always interested in plants. As an Eagle ...
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From Leah Cook lcc2@cornell.edu: Please note that the venue for diploma distribution at 12:30 has changed from Minns Garden to Plant Science 233. We’ll have signs, make an announcement at breakfast, etc., but the ...
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