ROOTED is a living community art installation coming mid-April 2014. (The installation is tentatively scheduled for April 14 with ribbon-cutting on April 16.) Preparations began in December when volunteers planted 13,000 flower bulbs in ...
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The Cornell Soil Health Testing Lab is open for business for 2014. The lab’s Soil Health Assessment Package includes two new tests this year: Soil respiration and soil protein. The package is tecommended for ...
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Reposted from CALS Notes: The Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station (CUAES) recently hosted over two-dozen farmers and producers from Oregon who visited Cornell as part of an agricultural education tour of New York State. The tour, ...
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Society of Horticulture for Graduate Students (SoHo) spent a chilly but not totally unpleasant Tuesday afternoon pruning apple trees at Cornell Orchards. The Cornell Orchards retail store remains open 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. ...
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If you missed Ted DeJong’s seminar on Monday, Peach tree scion vigor is physiologically linked to the xylem anatomy of the rootstock, it’s available online.
To get schoolchildren moving, uproot them from classrooms into school gardens, concludes a two-year Cornell study of 12 elementary schools in five New York regions. By experiment’s end, kids at schools with gardens were ...
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Plants are Matthew Bond’s passion. And at Cornell, this senior and Plant Science major has found plenty of opportunities to pursue his passion. “I’ve always known since middle school and even younger that I wanted to ...
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On behalf of Dale Ila M. Riggs, President, NYS Berry Growers Association and Dr. Courtney Weber, NYSAES Small Fruit Breeder via the Cornell fruit news and events blog. Two years ago, the NYS Berry ...
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If you missed Marcia Eames-Sheavly‘s seminar Creativity in Horticulture Teaching and Extension on Monday, it’s available online. See also our Art of Horticulture YouTube playlist.
Associate Professor Jane Mt. Pleasant will be one of the speakers at a symposium on the Haudensoaunee symbolism of “The Tree of Peace” and place-based foundations of indigenous science, March 21, 3 to 6 ...
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