On Saturday April 13, 2013, more than 60 graduate and professional students from the Cornell community came to the Ken Post Lab Greenhouses to get their hands dirty and play with plants at the SoHo-organized event: “Horticulture Outreach Day,” (The event was sponsored Graduate and Professional Student Assembly Finance Commission.)
In six, 30-minute workshops, Horticulture graduate students explained mushroom cultivation and the process of constructing and caring for a terrarium to interested attendees. We also demonstrated how to grow edible sprouts cheaply and easily at home; how moss graffiti is made; and how vermicompost works and how it can greatly improve the life of your houseplants.
Last but not least, SoHo members showed some easy techniques for how to propagate houseplants. Every participant went home with at least one plant for their home and will know how to care for it.
We hope this will be the first of many such outreach days and a tradition was born, enabling this to become an annual event.
Big thanks to all the Horticulture graduate students for their participation in the organization and for their time. Thanks also to the Greenhouse management and staff for letting us use their facility.