Cornell Cooperative Extension Community Horticulture

Have you seen the multimedia section of the www.gardening.cornell.edu? From the home page scroll down towards the bottom.

There you’ll find:

Zone Creep – NPR’s Wired Science explores global warming and ‘zone creep’. Clip features David Wolfe, climate change expert in Cornell’s Department of Horticulture.

and…the most recent episode of

Garden podcasts from North Country Public Radio featuring horticulturist Amy Ivy, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Essex and Clinton Counties.

Let us know if you have found multimedia we might want to consider sharing on our site.

Check out it out at: http://hort.cals.cornell.edu/

Note the directory under shortcuts has updated faculty pages. This could prove useful in your searches for experts to help with your questions or program needs.

Also look at In the News for items you might want to pass along to your volunteers or through your local newsletters.

Are you wondering what is happening on campus?

Check out this portal. You can search by Department, Mission, Funding source, People and more…

This link takes portal. Look for the impact statements from the Department of Horticulture, Entomology, Education… These could be a resources for connecting with faculty who are tackling something of interest to your local area.

http://research.cals.cornell.edu/entity?home=6&id=416

Have you seen the multimedia section of the www.gardening.cornell.edu? From the home page scroll down towards the bottom.

There you’ll find:

The most recent episode of

Garden podcasts from North Country Public Radio featuring horticulturist Amy Ivy, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Essex and Clinton Counties.

and…

Zone Creep – NPR’s Wired Science explores global warming and ‘zone creep’. Clip features David Wolfe, climate change expert in Cornell’s Department of Horticulture.

Let us know if you have found multimedia we might want to consider sharing on our site.

This e-newsletter comes out of the Dutchess County Cornell Cooperative Extension Community Horticulture Program.

Are other counties producing similar e-newsletters for their community residents?

Dutchess Dirt (PDF)

Looking for an professional development opportunity for yourself or your volunteers who are gardening with youth? Consider this one coming in July 2008.
Contact Cornell’s Garden-based Learning program if you are considering submitting or attending as we will likely be sending several people to this.

Lawns & Meadows: Gardening for a Better Environment
With Francis Groeters, of Catskill Native Nursery
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17
3:00PM
OMEGA INSTITUTE CAFÉ
150 LAKE DRIVE
RHINEBECK, NY

AN ECOLOGICAL GARDENER’S PERSPECTIVE

THE TRADITIONAL AMERICAN LAWN requires considerable amounts of chemical intervention, water, money, time and energy and has little ecological value for birds,
butterflies and bees. This talk will introduce you to various alternatives to the traditional
lawn that have increasing degrees of ecological sustainability and value to wildlife,
from alternative grasses to ecologically diverse groundcovers. The presentation
will be followed by a question-and-answer period.
Before starting Catskill Native Nursery, Francis Groeters’ career was as an insect
ecologist in academia. He has degrees from Williams College, the University of Iowa
and the University of California at Davis. Catskill Native Nursery is the only nursery in
the Hudson Valley and Catskills that specializes in native plants. It sells only nursery propagated plants — either growing its plants from seed or cuttings, or obtaining
them from other growers who do likewise. No plants are dug from the wild.

Limited Seating. Please Call: 845-266-4444, ext. 225

Flier (PDF)

NYS Urban Forestry Council works with communities across the state to begin or improve urban and community forestry programs. In December they are offering to CCE partners this free workshop presented by Dr. Christopher Luley of Urban Forestry LLC.

This flier (pdf) includes more details and registration info.

Here’s the outline for this program (word doc).

For more information contact:
Mary Kramarchyk
Urban and Community Forestry Partnership/Volunteer Coordinator
NYS DEC, 625 Broadway, Albany 12233
518-402-9425 – Cell – 518-391-9389
mckramar@gw.dec.state.ny.us

As winter approaches it’s a perfect opportunity to revisit the splendor of your garden through the development of educational workshops around your favorite garden topic.

Let this cheat sheet from Cornell’s Department of Horticulture communication specialist Craig Crammer help you get started with your presentations.

cheatsheet.pdf