President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to deport up to three million undocumented immigrants will make U.S-produced food and wine more expensive and less available. That’s the warning from Justine Vanden Heuvel, associate professor in the Horticulture Section ...
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Celebrate the wonderful pairing of apples with Lively Run Goat Dairy goat and cow cheeses at this free event, December 2 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Cornell Orchards.
From USDA-SARE Program news release: As farmers and ranchers strive to maintain profitability, they face a multitude of pressures such as protecting water and air resources, conserving biodiversity and limiting soil erosion. Too often, ...
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If you’d like to catch a glimpse of students’ final projects in Marcia Eames-Sheavly’s Art of Horticulture class, you can sneak a peek online. You can also see previous classes’ work (as well as other class projects ...
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From Lori Brewer: Registration is now open for the online course Permaculture Design: Ecosystem Mimicry, offered Jan. 16 through March 2, 2017 through the Horticulture Section’s distance learning program. Space is limited to 15 ...
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Via CALS Instagram: A sunflower is astonishing for more than just its outward beauty. Associate professor Taryn Bauerle and her students are tracking how drought-stricken sunflower roots send electrical signals to the leaves to ...
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NPR’s The Salt : Kale is getting a makeover, and the very essence of kaliness may hang in the balance. To develop a new variety of kale tailored to American palates, horticulture professor Philip ...
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Thomas Björkman and Michael Mazourek share insights into their research in this video feature at NBC News’ science and technology site: Meet the Scientists Breeding Vegetables for Our Changing Environment. “Artificial intelligence, new smartphones and ...
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If you missed Monday’s Horticulture Section seminar, Thinking outside the crop: challenging market class concepts in vegetables with Michael Mazourek, Associate Professor in the Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, it is available online. See also Mazourek’s seminar New ...
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From Nina Bassuk: The Horticulture Section of the School of Integrative Plant Science offers a wonderful opportunity once a year, the Frederick Dreer Award, that allows one or more students to spend 4 months to ...
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