Ethan Grundberg (MS ’09, University of California, Davis) is a regional vegetable specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Eastern New York Commercial Horticulture Program. Grundberg serves the commercial vegetable growers of the Lower and Mid-Hudson Valley with a specific emphasis on providing technical support to Orange County’s black dirt farms. His research interests include evaluating biofungicides in both organic and conventional systems, adapting reduced tillage practices to muck soils, quantifying greenhouse gas flux from soils under annual cultivation, small farm equipment, improving onion pest management through adjuvant selection, and improving organic management of the allium leafminer.
Grundberg is also the creator of the Eastern New York Vegetable News Podcast, available on SoundCloud or wherever you get your podcasts.