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 Hort/Ntres/CSS 426: Practicum in Forest Farming
Fall 2004, 2 credits
Wednesday 1:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Get involved in experiential learning through the development and management of a 70-year-old nut grove originally planted at Cornell in the 1920s. The MacDaniel's Nut Grove has been under development since 2002 as a multipurpose agroforestry / forest farming teaching and research site. Hands-on activities will include:
- Hickory and Walnut harvest and variety evaluation
- Mushroom culture
- Small fruit and fruit tree culture
- Medicinal herb culture
- Site evaluation and planning
One of the things that I enjoy about the structure of this class is the hands-on and rather practical nature of it. It seems like spending class time to accomplish a task, like actually inoculate logs with mushroom spore or build a useable bridge, is very rare. - Student comment, Fall 2003
Other courses using the McDaniels Nutgrove:
CSS 465, Global Positioning Systems
 Art Lembo, Sr. Research Associate and Lecturer, in the Department of Crop and Soil Science, used the Nutgrove as a one-time field laboratory exercise for this course. Students visited the site late in the Spring 2004 semester. They used handheld GPS units and GIS software they had been trained to use during the course to collect positional information on specific trees of interest to our Northern Nut Growers Association project, as well as to collect elevation data.
Back in the computer lab students downloaded and displayed their data on an aerial photograph of the site (right), showing the location of trees on the "Chestnut Knoll" (open circles), hill side (blue) and flood plain (yellow), as well topographic lines. View interactive map.
Lembo commented that the experience was "...more meaningful for the students, to realize it wasn't an exercise in futility, but rather an opportunity produce a useful product."
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Project coordinator: Ken Mudge, kwm2@cornell.edu
Website design: Craig Cramer cdc25@cornell.edu
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