Chefs from La Verne, Pasadena, and Pomona will use produce grown locally by college students to prepare a farm to table dinner. Travis Flood of Alexander’s Steakhouse in Pasadena, Christopher Gendreau of Chase’s La Verne, and the Cal Poly Pomona…
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An Orange County arborist and businesswoman will receive the 2018 Jim Hicks Agricultural Achievement Award from Cal Poly Pomona. Rose Epperson is a certified arborist with more than 35 years’ experience in tree care and is a principal in the…
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Petting farm animals. Arabian horses. Veterinary demonstrations. Free food samples. Bargain prices on new plant varieties. The Huntley College of Agriculture will have all this and more on Homecoming weekend Saturday and Sunday, March 3-4. First off, the college will…
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Four apparel merchandising and management students were awarded $5,000 each in a national scholarship competition. The nonprofit YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund selected students Gabriela Ramirez Luis, Ashley Garcia, Jonathan Mayorga and Viridiana Navarro as scholarship recipients after its annual case…
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Cal Poly Pomona has a new llama, and the campus community can help choose its name. The Department of Animal & Veterinary Sciences purchased the llama to help guard its sheep and goats against coyotes. Llamas place themselves between the…
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The era of California-grown coffee has begun. The Huntley College of Agriculture at Cal Poly Pomona is holding a Jan. 18 summit on growing coffee in California. American coffee was once grown exclusively in Hawaii, but today some 30,000 coffee trees are…
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At least one Cal Poly Pomona student has a front-row seat during the World Series games at Dodger Stadium. Oscar Del Real, a second-year graduate student in plant science, works full-time for the Los Angeles Dodgers grounds crew. He helps…
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Bestselling Author to Give Lecture on Dramatic, True Story During the final days of World War II, some of the world’s most rare and treasured Arabian horses were rescued from the clutches of Nazi Germany and were later sent to…
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Agricultural students from Orange County will have more scholarship and educational opportunities at Cal Poly Pomona, thanks to a local farm bureau. The Orange County Farm Bureau has given $165,000 to the Huntley College of Agriculture at Cal Poly Pomona…
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Cal Poly Pomona will celebrate a milestone with its 25th Pumpkin Festival. The event, which will be held at the AGRIscapes Center Oct. 7 and 8, will feature the traditional pumpkin picking out in a field, as well as a…
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