Chicago Tribune : Even plants can get into the spirit of Halloween. Kyle Martin sees it all the time. He’s a doctoral candidate in plant biology at Cornell University whose specialty is brood-site deception. ...
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Cornell Chronicle Apple varieties Cortland, Empire and Jonagold were favorites of President Elizabeth Garrett long before she took the helm at Cornell University. But it wasn’t until her tenure began this summer that ...
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Co-workers, friends and family gathered Wednesday to celebrate Marvin Pritts‘ 13-year tenure as Horticulture Chair. Pritts passed the torch to Steve Reiners in July to take over new responsibilities as Director of Undergraduate Studies ...
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Some recent items of horticultural interest: GenNext Researchers: Jaume Lordan Sanahuja – Growing Produce interviews post-doc associate in Terence Robinson’s lab. Trendsetter: Alex Traven – Greenhouse Management profiles former Dilmun Hill farm manager and ...
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If you missed Monday’s Horticulture Section seminar, Can We build food systems that are climate-smart enough? with David Wolfe, it’s available online. More seminar videos: Horticulture | School of Integrative Plant Science
Reposted from CALS Notes: Members of the Cornell University Society of Horticulture for Graduate Students (SOHO) are selling 18 different varieties of apples this weekend during the Ithaca Apple Harvest Festival. The festival marks ...
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From the Cornell Small Farms program: The Cornell Small Farms Program announces a new development in the emerging log-grown mushroom industry; New York State has officially designated “actively managed log-grown woodland mushrooms” within the ...
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… to the new Liberty Hyde Bailey Conservatory Greenhouse. Thursday, Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station staff moved three trailer loads of larger specimens from the Kenneth Post Lab greenhouse complex where the collection has ...
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From syracuse.com : Since the late 1890s, scientists at the have painstakingly developed 66 new apple varieties. It’s the nation’s oldest and largest apple development program. Susan ...
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Reposted from Cornell Chronicle blog Trent Preszler, M.S. ’02, Ph.D. ’12, a winemaker and boat builder, has been named one of Out Magazine’s Top 10 Tastemakers for 2015. The magazine writes: “It’s not surprising that ...
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