- Empire Farm Days 2006
- Fourth graders take compost field trip
- Marvin Pritts takes working vacation in Guatemala
- CALS student helps kick off New York State Fair
Again this year, CALS hosted displays featuring dozens of college-affiliated programs which brought thousands of people into the Empire Building during Empire Farms Days in Seneca Falls the first week of August.
As always, the Cornell Marketplace tasting tables attracted a crowd.
The new Ask the Experts section featured information about organics, biofuels, and risk management.
The large entomology display featured hissing cockroaches, apple maggot flies, and more.
Dottie Wilcox and Perry Dewey, Education, also serve on the EFD planning committee.
Local fourth graders learn about composting at Cornell
The fourth-grade classes of Newark Valley Elementary School saw composting in action during a trip to Cornell on June 16. The day also included visits to the Cornell Game Farm, Plantations, and Lab of Ornithology.
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The kids are gloved and ready to dig in as farm supervisor Drew Lewis welcomes them to Cornell’s Stephenson Road composting facility. Newark Valley teacher Vicki Lewis — Drew’s mother — developed the teaching unit on compost with her son; she is standing at the back of the crowd, just to the left of the truck cab.
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Rich Russell at work on another windrow of compost. The pile contains food waste (Cornell composts three to four tons per day when classes are in session), milk cartons and other paper, hay, manure, and wood scraps. The rows behind him contain compost in various stages of biodegradation.
photo/Jeannie Griffith
Erik “Gus” Vergason operates Cornell’s $260,000 windrow turner. The machine, a giant, above-ground rototiller, mixes and aerates the compost.
photo/Jeannie Griffith
The students plunge their hands into the freshly turned compost to feel how hot it is — 160 degrees Fahrenheit. The heat is generated by microbes that annually convert more than 6,000 tons of Cornell’s waste into premium compost. According to Drew Lewis, Cornell composts more than it sends to the landfill. The finished product sells out every year.
Marvin Pritts makes many new friends in Guatemala
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Marvin Pritts and several local teenagers spent their summer vacations constructing a multipurpose room and playground at an elementary school in a small mountain village in Guatemala.
CALS first-year student on-stage for state fair ribbon cutting
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At the ribbon cutting during the opening ceremony of this year’s New York State Fair, Gov. George Pataki is joined (on his left) by New York State Dairy Princess Caitlin Rohe ’10, an animal science major.