The Liberty Hyde Bailey Center Project

09/01/2026

Today we remember Wendell Berry.

“And so I go into the woods. As I go in under the trees, dependably, almost at once, and by nothing I do, things fall into place,” he once wrote. “I enter an order that does not exist outside, in the human spaces. I feel my life take its place among the lives – the trees, the annual plants, the animals and birds, the living of all these and the dead – that go and have gone to make the life of the earth.”

Author and Kentucky native, who celebrated the farming world of his home state and warned of the excesses of industrial society, died at home

09/01/2026

Love you, Wendell. Rest now. Your life has prepared our lives.

09/01/2026

In the paper!

Sharing a small loop road with Schuyler House and Cornell University Press, 103-109 Sage Place looks like an unusual location for student apartments. While that has been its function since

08/31/2026

"The Liberty Hyde Bailey Center will combat the interlinked challenges of climate change, civic unraveling, and political polarization through action-oriented dialogues across many lines of difference, educational programming, and creative projects across the sciences, arts, and humanities."

Thanks reporter Kira Walter of the The Ithaca Times for this spotlight article on The Liberty Hyde Bailey Center Project! Learn more about the history and vision of the project, and what it will do, in her full article, here: https://www.ithaca.com/entertainment/art/the-liberty-hyde-bailey-center-a-project-of-cornell-cooperative-extension/article_3791ccab-c53e-4441-ba05-06ffc034550e.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUCf7djbGNrBQJ_s3Bkb2YBZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEe4GS-RNukUe57R4lmkxw4P4qaGLrL5zOm8_VWwWQsEKHZOBTR2Soynzl_V5Q_aem_ZQtn0MypZZfI0IQ5ROorVw

08/28/2026

"The Liberty Hyde Bailey Center will combat the interlinked challenges of climate change, civic unraveling, and political polarization through action-oriented dialogues across many lines of difference, educational programming, and creative projects across the sciences, arts, and humanities."

Thanks reporter Kira Walter of the Ithaca Times for this spotlight article on The Liberty Hyde Bailey Center Project! Learn more about the history and vision of the project, and what it will do, here:

Sharing a small loop road with Schuyler House and Cornell University Press, 103-109 Sage Place looks like an unusual location for student apartments. While that has been its function since

08/18/2026

For our friends in West Michigan!

🌱 Come join us for the Bailey Conference!

The Bailey Conference is a great chance to learn, meet new people, and spend some time thinking about the things that connect us to nature, agriculture, and our communities.

If you’ve never been to the conference before, this is a great year to come check it out. There will be plenty of interesting conversations, new ideas, and opportunities to connect with others who share an interest in the work and legacy of Liberty Hyde Bailey.

We hope you’ll join us! 🌿

08/11/2026

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Learning to follow my own vocational advice—an odyssey to Ithaca.

08/11/2026

"Liberty Hyde Bailey, the influential horticulturist and educator often called the Father of American Horticulture, wrote that gardeners should cultivate 'that happy peace of mind which is satisfied with little.' That gentle spirit thrives in small gardening spaces throughout Marin County. Meaningful gardens are not defined by acreage, but by the relationship that gradually develops between garden and gardener. What is sometimes described as small-space gardening is a profoundly rewarding undertaking because every flower matters, every leaf matters, and every watering matters. In many ways, small-space gardening is a more intensive, intimate, and rewarding experience."

from "Growing with the Garden, Small Spaces Offer Big Rewards," by Terry Armerson for the UC Marin Master Gardeners

Whether upscaling from an apartment or downsiz

08/07/2026

"I once asked an old gardener how much land he had and he said with pride that he had one acre; and he added, 'It is a wonderful acre; it reaches to the center of the earth in one direction and it takes in the stars in the other.'"

–Liberty Hyde Bailey, from The Harvest of the Year to the Tiller of the Soil (1927), p. 48

08/07/2026

Updates! Given our progress, Cornell has given us more time to raise funds; a $675,000 grant application has been submitted; and we welcome John Linstrom as Director of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Center Project.

All this and more in our latest newsletter (consider subscribing!): http://eepurl.com/QoTwnLpW_7

Picture: John at The Climate Museum for the launch of his poetry book in April 2024