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"Uplands
Farm is an agricultural field station that is maintained by Cold Spring
Harbor Laboratory for their plant group. We do genetic research on
maize
and
Arabidopsis
[Arabidopsis
thaliana,
a member of the mustard family commonly called mouse-ear
cress]."
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"The Nature Conservancy was able to purchase the property, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory then purchased 12 acres in 1984, and we put these greenhouses up and farm it to this day. "I would say that the best part of working here is being a small part of all the research that goes on here. Even though it’s a small part of that research, it’s still probably the most important part because you can’t understand DNA in plants if you don’t have any plants."—Tim Mulligan, manager of Uplands Farm |
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"Uplands
Farm has a pretty big history. At the turn of the century, the property
was cleared, the buildings were built, and an active dairy farm
ran right up through the 1950s. The
folks who owned it conducted research on DDT here. They sprayed
the fields, and had the cows graze, and they were able to follow
the trail of the DDT through the milk, which led to DDT being banned.
Farm
manager Tim Mulligan was mentored by Barbara McClintock.
She persuaded the hiring committee to give him his first
job at the farm. Seventeen years later he still loves to
come to work every day.
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