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Carolus, one of Cornell’s “corpse flowers,” blooming again soon
Cornell University has rare titan arum, or corpse flower, plants, and one of them is about to start blooming again. When a titan arum blooms, it “emits a powerful scent that smells like rotting meat to attract carrion flies and other insects that spread pollen to...
Local Flowers Make Local Weddings Bloom
When choosing flowers for a wedding, local flowers are the more environmentally sustainable choice — since they don’t carry the costs of transport or the residue of toxic pesticides. Local flowers are also one of the only ways to get the delicate, sumptuous blooms —...
Healthy crops on the Central Coast
Photo courtesy of Lance Runels Glad-A-Way Gardens grows annually on about 500 acres of row crop farmland, harvesting more than a dozen different colors of gladioli all year long for cut flower markets throughout the United States and portions of Canada. More than 30...
Downtown Syracuse is getting a grocery store—and more
Jacob Pucci SYRACUSE, N.Y. – The lack of a full-fledged grocery store has long been a point of contention for downtown Syracuse. Epicuse hopes to change that. The grocery store/cafe hybrid, located at 334. S. Salina St., is expected to open in early October....