Q&A
Soil research collaboration with Cornell University
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Council Member Amanda Farías inquires about the collaboration with Cornell on soil research and climate resilience metrics. Qiana Mickie explains the ongoing relationship with Cornell, focusing on soil science and urban agriculture spaces in New York City.
- Plans to involve urban agriculture stakeholders in the research process
- Opportunities for education and stipends for urban agriculture practitioners
- Research to continue in 2025
Amanda Farías
1:51:19
I'm going to follow-up with a lot more questions, but I have just 2 that I wanna focus on.
1:51:24
22 buckets that I wanna focus on.
1:51:27
Regarding supporting urban agriculture research, can you tell us more about your collaboration with Cornell on soil research and what specific climate resilience metrics you are tracking?
1:51:38
Oh,
Alex Paulenoff
1:51:38
soil research is soil science,
Qiana Mickie
1:51:39
and soil science is soil science.
1:51:41
We are continuing our relationships
Amanda Farías
1:51:43
with,
Qiana Mickie
1:51:51
our relationships with, Cornell around soil research.
1:51:55
There have been some, on some changes internally on Cornell in terms of pivots in the research, but we've, been having conversations on how to repivot for the year to come.
1:52:07
So what that is gonna continue to look like is, re identifying urban agriculture spaces in New York City to continue and further the work of soil research, but also creating a component where we can create, relevant opportunities for UrbanX stakeholders to be a part of that research.
1:52:26
So we realized that we had an opportunity in not just doing soil research with soil scientist Cornell, but it created the opportunity to provide education and, stipend opportunity, learning opportunity for other urban ag practitioners.
1:52:41
So we wanted to make sure that the research had its time to go through trials, that we could identify funding for that, and we could also identify opportunities from our Urban Ag stakeholders to be a part of that research.
1:52:53
So we look forward to that, continuing in 2025.
