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CALS grad leads People’s Garden program
CALS grad Livia Marques leads the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s popular and growing People’s Garden Program.
Students’ State Fair garden earns Commissioner’s Award
What started as a learning opportunity for a landscape class at N.C. State University resulted in some new, permanent landscape features for the State Fair’s garden area. The effort also received the Commissioner’s Award for the fair’s garden area this year.
CALS researcher investigates improved shelf quality for brambles
No matter how fruits and vegetables are filled with health-promoting and disease-fighting nutrients, they have to make it to market with their nutritional value intact, free of microbial contamination, and looking, smelling, and tasting great. This is the challenge of postharvest physiologist Penelope Perkins-Veazie.
‘In the Garden with Bryce Lane’ begins ninth season
In its ninth season, “In the Garden” brings more of its Emmy® Award-winning wisdom from seasoned N.C. State horticultural science instructor Bryce Lane.
Produce grown in flooded gardens poses food safety risks
Produce grown in gardens that were submerged by floodwaters during or after Hurricane Irene can pose a health risk. A new food safety info sheet from North Carolina Extension explains the risks and what you can do to avoid getting sick.
Master Gardeners offer custom license plate
N.C. Master Gardeners Volunteer Association and N.C. State University have partnered to develop a North Carolina Master Gardener license plate. Legislation approving the new custom license plate was approved this summer by the General Assembly and signed by Gov. Bev Perdue.
Container gardening in the piedmont is topic of new publication
You can grow and harvest vegetables, fruits, and herbs in the piedmont of North Carolina practically year-round. A new Cooperative Extension calendar shows you how.
Grad student designs landscapes with both human and environmental health in mind
Brantley Snipes designed a suburban retrofit to promote walkability and other outdoor activities that provide mental and physical health attributes to the community.
Glen explores impacts of Extension’s ‘gardens of learning’
Research on Extension gardens culminates in a project presented at N.C. State’s Graduate Student Research Symposium.
Bamboo ‘roller-coaster’ bistro is shaped for relaxation on campus
Students from Will Hooker’s Landscape Design studio have built a new bamboo sculpture in front of Kilgore Hall.
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