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Tanzanian farmers boost diets with sustainable methods

… safe botanical pesticides from local plants or adding compost and manure to improve soil health. American and …

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  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Food
  • Global Development
  • Development
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Crops
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Evergreen idea turns biomass DNA into degradable materials

… time. It is nontoxic and degradable. Essentially you can compost it.” Perhaps biomass DNA’s greatest virtue is its …

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  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Plants
  • Biology
  • Environment
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Cornell donates 37 tons of produce to fight food insecurity

… surplus cabbage seedlings. Instead of sending them to the compost heap, DiTommaso connected with the  Homer C. Thompson …

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  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Agriculture
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CCE’s Blocks in Bloom helps communities flourish

… by Rochester home centers and garden clubs as well as compost and mulch provided by the city of Rochester. Advice …

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  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Nature
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The Science of Shade

… the top 18 inches of soil and incorporate a vein of compost, followed by planting and then mulching it every …

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Nina Bassuk
Real-life learning: engineering students learn by doing at Cornell AES farm

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  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Homer C. Thompson Vegetable Research Farm
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
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Osterhoudt Farms partners with CALS through US Dairy Net Zero Initiative

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  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change
  • Dairy
  • Crops
  • Soil
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Lehmann, alum artificially age tech waste for new exhibit

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  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Plants
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Service, connection, leadership: Cornellians in the Peace Corps

… farmers she assisted used it for everything from spreading compost to fending off rodents. With Peace Corps operations …

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  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
  • Food
  • Global Development
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Peace Corps Humility: Coverdell Fellow Erik Endacott, MPS ‘25

… Erik is expanding upon his previous interest in urine compost as a sustainable fertilizer.  Rebecca Nelson and  …

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  • Global Development Section
  • Food
  • Global Development
Man takes selfie in rural Gambia