News & Events

Funding priorities for 2014 Toward Sustainability Foundation (TSF) grants up to $12,000 include projects that involve Cornell undergraduate or graduate students in major roles. Read more

Starting November 1 (while supplies last), customers at Cornell Orchards‘ retail store will be able to buy RubyFrost™ apples, one of a pair of much-anticipated new varieties from the Cornell breeding program.  Read more

Examines a botanical treasure-trove of important culinary, medicinal, industrial, and ornamental crops over time. Discover the critical roles plants have played throughout history—from saving lives, to enslaving multitudes, to pitting nation against nation. Read more

Over 40 farmers, gardeners and students joined an interactive tour with permaculture expert and author Ben Falk at Dilmun Hill Student Farm, Read more

The fall issue of PeriodiCALS prominently features several horticulturists: Susan Brown (pages 3, 24), Thomas Björkman (page 21) and Michael Mazourek (page 22). Read more

"Stickwork" Patrick Dougherty talked about how he became a sculptor who works with natural materials in a Messenger lecture Oct. 23. Read more

Marion Zuefle, M.S., has joined the staff of the New York State IPM Program as a vegetable IPM educator. Zuefle, and will work closely with growers and researchers around New York and the Northeast. Read more

Plant breeder Ronnie Coffman has sown seeds of scientific and social change across continents and generations. Now his efforts are being recognized with the inaugural World Agriculture Prize. Read more

Ben Falk, founder of Whole Systems Design and author ofThe Resilient Farm and Homestead, will lead a two-part event on October 23, “Reading the Landscape for Regeneration and Resilience.” Read more

Visit includes presentation to Art of Horticulture class and hands-on workshop at Ithaca Childrens Garden. Read more