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Innovators & Impact Podcast: Earth to easel, Kirsten Kurtz paints with soil

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
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Fruit, Soil Health Teams tour orchards, campus
Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Fruit and Soil Health Program Work Teams held a joint meeting July 11 to tour research orchards and facilities for updates on the latest science from Ithaca-based faculty and staff. The day started with a morning...
  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
  • Cornell Orchards
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
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Artist Alum Has an Unusual Medium: Earth Itself
Painter Kirsten Kurtz, MS ’21, manages CALS’ soil health lab—and turns leftover samples into works of art
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Soil
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State-funded study provides soil health guidelines for New York agriculture
To fill that research gap, a team of soil scientists in Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), conducted a state-funded project to characterize soil health across New York state agricultural lands. Published in...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section

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The art of dirt

Kirsten Kurtz, manager of Cornell’s Soil Health Testing Laboratory and graduate student in the field of natural resources, is on a mission to save and celebrate soil – by painting with it.

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Cornell artists win global soil painting competition

A soil painting created by Cornellians won first prize in the university category of a global soil painting competition.

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Palette Earth: global soil painting competition illustrates soil’s vital role
A global soil painting competition Dec. 5 organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations was inspired by a Cornell event in 2015.