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Taking Mom’s Kimchi Mainstream
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“I’m still giving people the first bite of kimchi they’ve ever had.” Madalyn Warren takes great inspiration from her two cows, Isadora, a Guernsey, and Blink, a Jersey. “They’re my good buds,” says Warren, lovingly reflecting on the mobile fermentation factories that keep her grasses mowed and vegetables fertilized at her family farm in the…
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Medicinal Garden at Onondaga Nation School Grows Opportunity
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The medicinal garden is the result of a year-long collaboration between the Nation, school and Cornell Botanic Gardens, and will help in implementing more hands-on, project-based opportunities for students that both hit state standards and incorporate knowledge from and about their own culture. On a sunny Friday in September, kindergarteners encircled Charlie Hernandez ’26 outside…
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The Financial Benefits of Going Grass-Fed with Sheep
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How to weather inflation of agricultural inputs. A common expectation is that grass-fed market lambs should fetch a premium price, a price that is higher than conventional grain-fed lamb. That is not always the case unless you are able to tap into a niche market. Sales barns or livestock markets do not pay a higher…
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A Cornucopia of Research Supports New York’s Farms and Food Systems
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A diverse array of Cornell research, from plant breeding to soil health, helps support local and global harvests Across the world, harvest celebrations are one of the most common human traditions. Though they vary in mythology and performance, they are united in their celebration of plentiful harvests, and the health and peace that abundant food…
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Field Days Bring Together Latino/a/x Farming Community
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The Cornell Small Farms Program’s Futuro en Ag project hosted a series of field days for Latino/a/x farmers. WNY Farm Field Day Highlights Apple Production, Soil Health, Leadership Sergio Rosario and Silvia Rios, co-owners of Rosario Brothers LLC, welcomed nearly 30 participants to an educational field day at their apple orchard in Albion, in western…
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Tomato Poem
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A poem by a tomato caretaker. After twenty some years of being an environmentalist poet, storyteller, playwriter and guest lecturer here in Plattsburgh, NY, I realized I didn’t have a personal relationship with nature myself. Just then, in 2009, Ian Ater started Fledgling Crow Farm in Keeseville, NY. I became the caretaker of the tomatoes. …
Winter 2025
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