Our Mission:
We prepare volunteers to be peer educators who build relationships with community audiences to integrate local experience and research-based knowledge in planning for and initiating steps to manage gardens, lawns, and landscapes with an emphasis on food security and environmental stewardship.
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June 17th Horticulture Update - Fruition Edition
Some recent recordings and professional development opportunities, for educators and MGV, to explore around all things fruit!
We'll be taking a short break for a few weeks with the Horticulture Update - please send stories and ideas to alm443@cornell.edu.
Statewide Professional Development Opportunities:
Berries Galore: Strawberries, Raspberries, and Blueberries in the Home Garden
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
ZOOM Virtual Class- you will receive a link to the class in your email after registering
Roger Ort of CCE Schuyler is back with his berry wisdom! He will be focusing on selecting, planting, and caring for the typical backyard berries: strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries.
This class is taught by Roger Ort, unusual fruit enthusiast, and owner of Ort Family Farm.
$0-$30/person pay what you can affor
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Growing Unusual Fruits: FREE STATEWIDE CLASS in partnership with CGBL, Roger Ort and Ariel Kirk!
Raspberries 101: With Harvest NY Berry Specialist Esther Kibbe
• Selecting and prepare a planting site
• Choosing varieties and planting
• Pruning, trellising and fertilizing your plants through the seasons.
• Cultural practices to mitigate pest pressure and insect vectored viruses
• Invasive spotted wing drosophila control
• Manage fruit and foliar diseases
Recording of Webinar Here:
https://vod.video.cornell.edu/media/Raspberries+101/1_wzm065uo?st=0
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Learn More about NICH:
Some of you are familiar with NICH and some are not. The National Initiative for Consumer Horticulture is intertwined with your job duties if you are working with Extension Master Gardeners. (See below to learn more about NICH).
There are 3 things you can do right now to help with the NICH effort.
- Review the attached letter and take action. This letter provides talking points for you to submit stakeholder input to NIFA for the Urban, Indoor and Other Emerging Agricultural Production Research, Education, and Extension Initiative (Consumer Horticulture!). We are seeking federal dollars to support consumer horticulture research. Click on the link in the letter or click here to be taken directly to the NIFA site and follow the instructions for submitting your comments. If you add comments, be sure to use the term consumer horticulture – this helps our cause greatly. Do it NOW! Or at least do it before June 22, 2020. Help us by also asking EMGs themselves to do this as well. As with COVID-19, which you may be tired of hearing, we are in this together! Support Consumer Horticulture.
- Take a look at the June pollinator week memes and use them for your social media efforts in June. You don’t have to create anything – just simply copy and post to your social media accounts! Anytime you post, please use #plantsdothat, #NICH, and #NICHmastergardeners. We need to increase the awareness of consumer horticulture. Help us and yourself! Feel free to use any other resources in your Extension programming as well.
- Go to consumerhort.org and click on the join us tab and sign up to become a NICH supporter. You will be updated on events, calls to action, as well as receive our newsletter. Help us out!
If you are interested in learning more about NICH and our efforts, go to consumerhort.org and check out the website.
Recent Cornell Garden-Based Learning Recorded Webinars:
SOI3L: Soil Online Information, Investigation and Innovation Laboratory
All Other CCE County Gardening Classes Listed below and at:
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