News & Events

56-page guide from the Urban Horticulture Institute profiles more than 35 shrubs ideally suited for rain gardens, filter strips, bioswales and other practices designed to reduce runoff and pollution from city landscapes. Available free online.

Four Geneva-based faculty in the Department of Food Science will move to the Ithaca campus over the next two to three years.

The Extension vegetable specialist emphasized continuing and expanding the Harvest NY program and field trials by the Cornell Vegetable Program  on newly developed varieties to meet growing demand from Latino and Asian populations for locally sourced ethnic vegetables. 

Improvements to the lower entrance of Cascadilla Glen - and a metal artist's gate, in particular - have earned Cornell Plantations a 2013 Pride of Ownership award.

Nicholas Biebel ’14 and Madeline Olberg ’14 were cited for their outstanding GPAs, research acumen, and enthusiasm for plant sciences Dec. 5 during the 75th Annual Cornell Seed Conference held at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva.

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 peak online. You can also see student work from previous years (as well as other class projects and videos) by visiting the Art of Horticulture’s gallery page.

Western New York grape growers who used mechanical crop thinning techniques saved millions of dollars of crop damage.

 Three courses taught by Marcia Eames-Sheavly: Basic Drawing Techniques, Working with watercolor, Advanced Techniques.

Those large, inflatable plastic characters that loom over used car lots have a new purpose: scaring away birds that cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to U.S. orchards and vineyards.

Come share the experiences of the 2013 seasonat Cornell's student-managed farm, collaborate on plans for the future, watch project presentations, and enjoy snacks with the Dilmun Hill Community!