See the Oct. 11 Cornell Chronicle article, New garden designed by freshmen symbolizes Cornell Cooperative Extension’s 100 years by Cornell Chronicle intern Grady Brimley for more information. Thirteen first-year plant science majors designed and ...
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“The abundant sunshine we have had much of this summer and fall has likely produced leaves high in sugars. And sugars are important for production of anthocyanins pigments, which produce rich red colors. Working ...
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From Susan S. Lang, originally posted on The Essentials, a daily blog from the staff of the Cornell Chronicle. (Slightly edited.) Everything you wanted to know about Iroquois corn but didn’t know to ask ...
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A study by the National Research Council confirmed what most of us already know: Cornell is a great place to pursue a graduate degree in horticulture. The 2010 NRC study, based on data collected ...
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From Betsy Leonard, technician, Department of Horticulture: On September 28, members of Alpha Zeta fraternity picked 40 bushels of organic peppers from research plots at the Homer C. Thompson Vegetable Research Farm, Freeville, N.Y. ...
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Wes Jackson, President of The Land Institute, Salina, Kansas will speak on “The Necessity and Possibility of the Ecosystem as the Conceptual Tool for a New Agriculture” at the Department of Horticulture Seminar, Monday ...
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Three articles of interest from the Cornell Chronicle yesterday: CALS helps Big Red go green with a building competition – On Campus Sustainability Day, Oct. 20, CALS will launch CALS Green, an energy conservation ...
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From an article in the Ithaca Journal, Strong, unusually sweet N.Y. apple crop credited to ideal summer weather: “It is a wonderful year for apple quality. Fruit size is good because of the rain ...
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Despite a chilly, overcast afternoon, dozens of students learned about wine grapes and relieved some early-semester stress by stomping them into juice at the third annual ‘Grape Stomp’ sponsored by the Cornell University Viticulture ...
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A September 15 story Ithaca-Geneva department mergers strengthen CALS mission in the CALS Newsroom announced the July 1 merger of four Ithaca-based departments and four Geneva-based departments: “The Ithaca and Geneva based sister departments ...
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