You’re invited to celebrate Earth Day with us at Cal Poly Pomona’s PLT 3370 Earth Day event!
🗓 Date: May 4, 2026
⏰ Time: 8:30–11:30 AM
📍 Location: Agriscapes | Agriscapes Classroom
This is a family-friendly, open-to-the-public event—everyone is welcome! Feel free to bring your family, friends, and anyone interested in plants, gardening, and hands-on learning.
We’ll have a variety of interactive activities and booths throughout the morning, including:
🌼 Free California Poppies to take home, with guidance on how to transplant and care for them
🪴 Paint-your-own pot + plant your own native seeds to take home
🌿 Seed bomb making
🎨 Bracelet-making station
📖 Coloring station featuring materials created by Native Plants class students
🧩 Games like a scavenger hunt and crossword puzzles
Visitors are also invited to:
🌱 Explore the Agriscapes garden space
👩🌾 Observe students working in the garden, ask questions, and learn more about what we do
Whether you’re a student, community member, or just curious, we’d love to have you join us for a fun, hands-on morning celebrating California’s incredible native plants.
We hope to see you there!
Dr. Guadalupe Maldonado Andrade
Broncos Give is HERE, and we need your help! We are raising money for the CPP Apiary Program, and every donation—big or small—could have DOUBLE impact. Can
you join us and chip in $25 (or more!) today?
👉 Click here to give: Broncos Give | Apiary Program
🎉 Reply with “DONE” when you’ve donated to inspire others to join.
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And then… they can do this.
The same sky, a different purpose.
A drone tending a field.
Thank you to Parker from Agridrones for the wonderful demo at Cal Poly Pomona. Thank you for the invitation Eshwar @cpp_plantsci
Social night in Dr. Eshwar's lab this week!
A shout out to the wonderful work being done by all the stduents.
Sam Mattia also celebrated his 30th birthday and will be graduating this spring.
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📍 Where was Dr. Eshwar? 👀🍄
Answer: deep in the mushroom pod lab.
This week, our students got hands-on with one of the most critical steps in mushroom production: pasteurizing and bagging grains for mushroom inoculation. From preparing clean substrates to sealing grain bags, this lab focused on building the foundation for healthy fungal growth.
Not all magic is visible yet—but this is where it starts ✨
Stay tuned as these bags turn into something amazing.
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🌱 WE’RE HIRING! 🌱
Looking for a paid, hands-on research position on campus?
Cal Poly Pomona Enterprises is hiring Undergraduate Research Technicians in Plant Science!
📍 Spadra Research Farm
🧑🔬 Mentorship with Dr. Eshwar Ravishankar
💰 $16.90/hour
⏰ 5–10 hrs/week
You’ll help with research on romaine lettuce grown under solar panels, working on planting, irrigation, harvesting, and data collection—real experience, real skills, real impact.
✨ Open to Plant Science majors eligible for Federal Work-Study
🔗 Apply now
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📍 Where was Dr. Eshwar? 👀🍄
Answer: entering the mystical world of mushrooms…
Today marked the very first Production Mycology class—and these students are the pilot cohort to take it! From learning the fundamentals of indoor fungi production to stepping into controlled environments where mushrooms thrive, this class is officially growing something new (literally and academically).
Hands-on, experimental, and a little magical ✨
Huge shoutout to our trailblazers helping shape the future of production mycology at CPP 🌱🍄
📸 Stay tuned to see what’s growing next…
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📍 Where was Dr. Eshwar? 👀🌱
Answer: knee-deep in tomatoes 🍅
Today our PLT 1120: Intro to Horticulture students had their very first lab + orientation out at the CPP Agriscapes Greenhouse! Hands-on from day one, students got to sort and work with different tomato cultivars, learn the space, and get a feel for what plant science looks like beyond the classroom.
From greenhouse basics to cultivar comparisons, this is how we grow learning 🌿
Welcome to the Plant Science fam, PLT 1120!
📸 Stay tuned for more Where was Dr. Eshwar? moments 😉
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From seed to salad, all in one container. 🥬✨
CPP’s new vertical farm, donated by @epri_news and @sce , is growing hyperlocal produce and hands-on opportunities for students using a fraction of the water required for traditional farming!
💡 Student-grown greens & herbs
💧 Uses ~5 gallons of water/day
🍽️ Produce used by @cppdining + @thefarmstorecpp
❤️ Donations to the Poly Pantry & @pomonafreefarmstand
🌱 Research on sustainable farming tech
💰 Workshops funded by Bronco Launchpad - happening now!
Try their harvest today at the CPP Farm Store and learn more via the 🔗 in bio!
Andy, Karli and Allan, all graduating Plant Science seniors, have successfully completed their senior project, mushroom cultivation.
Under the direction of Dr. Eshwar Ravishankar, these students have put in tremendous efforts to set up a mushroom cultivation tent and inoculate buckets of straw with blue oyster and lion's mane mushrooms. This has been a 16-week project, and they are ready to sell the fruits of their labor at the farm store!
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Come see what’s growing at Cal Poly Pomona! Our Plant Science Department is proud to showcase student innovation, alumni achievements, and hands-on science at the LA County Fair! Stop by our interactive booth to explore the world of plants—from cutting-edge ag tech to beautiful botanical displays. We’re live today from 5–11 PM, and every Thursday–Sunday from 11 AM–11 PM through May 26! Bring your curiosity, your questions, and your love for plants—we can’t wait to meet you!
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