{"id":39667,"date":"2024-08-23T14:58:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T18:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?p=39667"},"modified":"2024-08-23T14:58:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T18:58:20","slug":"dilmun-hill-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/dilmun-hill-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Student-Run Farm Grows Crops\u2014and Community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For more than two decades, Dilmun Hill has raised both produce and awareness about the value of agriculture<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Melissa Newcomb<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the more rural stretch of Dryden Road, not far from Cornell Orchards, is a small wooden sign for Dilmun Hill Student Farm<\/a>, hand painted in cheery colors. And beyond that sign\u2014down a short, woodsy pathway\u2014is a vibrant, flourishing, 12-acre farm with a history and community that\u2019s even sweeter than the berries that grow there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Run completely by students\u2014including four managers who choose what to plant and work there full-time in the summer\u2014the farm uses organic practices to grow around 100 crops, including tomatoes, peppers, beans, lettuce, squash, radishes, garlic, herbs, lettuce, kale, spinach, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Tomatoes, ripening on the vine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

It also boasts a variety of less typical offerings, like edible flowers, currants, and pawpaws (a tree fruit, native to North America, that tastes like a fusion of mango, banana, and citrus). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo day is the same, and that\u2019s what makes it fun,\u201d says manager Elinor Behlman \u201926, an environment and sustainability major in CALS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of problem solving\u2014like, how am I going to trellis these tomatoes with just a piece of string? Or moving a snapping turtle with a wheelbarrow; we did that last week.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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