Brenna Fitzpatrick

• Scouts onion fields and collects data on Botrytis Leaf Blight, Stemphylium Leaf Blight, Onion Thrips population, weed pressure, herbicide injury, and crop stage
• Creates scouting reports weekly, shares data with growers to best inform spraying decisions
• Sets up and monitors pheromone traps for sweet corn pests (European Corn Borer, Fall Armyworm, Corn Earworm, Western Bean Cutworm)
• Sets up and evaluates trials with several different fungicide and tank mix treatments
• Sets up and monitors trials in sweet corn and snap bean fields as part of a statewide initiative and collaboration with The Poveda Lab, Cornell CALS, Cornell IPM, and the Cornell Vegetable Program (due to the NY Birds and Bees Protection Act).
• Collects and manages data comparing stand count, loss, pest pressure biomass, and seed germination rate in sweet corn and snap beans grown from seeds treated with both fungicide and neonicotinoids and only neonicotinoids.
• Set up and monitors trials focusing on how 26+ different sweet corn varieties manage tar spot

• Revised the Student Farm’s crop plan and created the Student Farm’s 2025 crop plan and rotation
• Hands on training in sustainable agriculture operations
• completed 225+ hours of on-the-job training
• completed 25+ hours of technical instruction including crop planning, equipment and machinery maintenance, and personnel management

• Delegated tasks and created daily workflows for a 4-acre diversified vegetable farm
• Managed CSA distribution program: created pick lists, set prices each week, and engaged with the customers at pick up
• Managed the IPM efforts on site: frequent scouting, monitoring pest pressure, and implementing various, organic methods of control
• Trained and led the 2025 Intern Cohort through daily workflows, led written outreach efforts as Intern Mentor
• Managed the Fall Farm Crew Hiring process, including interviewing applicants and email correspondence

• Co-Created and ran Park Forest Elementary Garden Club
• Created and led outreach efforts focusing on garden education and food literacy in local elementary schools
• Planned and executed a field trip to the Student Farm for 300+ Park Forest Elementary School students centered around sustainable agriculture and food literacy

• Set up and monitored research trials focusing on ants as natural predators of lepidopteran pests in corn production
• Entered and summarized data in Microsoft Excel
• Collected data on potato leaf hopper populations in Alfalfa to inform growers when to apply insecticide
• Managed experiments in controlled and external environments focusing on goldenrod's defense mechanisms and how they are impacted by the goldenrod gall fly
• Led outreach initiatives at the Great Insect Fair teaching the public about plant-insect interactions

Minors in: Entomology, Environmental Soil Science, And Spanish

• Dean's List (Fall 23-Present)
• 3.6/4.0 GPA