Community Horticulture

Presented by Bob Beyfuss, Cornell Cooperative Extension Specialist for American Ginseng Production
October 16, 2008, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm.
Cost: $15 per farm/family- Includes The Practical Guide to Growing Ginseng, by Bob Beyfuss

At DCMO BOCES Norwich Campus

Ginseng is a native herb that has been used for centuries in Chinese medicine. This forest grown crop has been harvested and exported since the 1700’s and continues to be a cash crop today. Growing Ginseng in Central New York will review the process of cultivating ginseng, as well as site selection, harvesting and marketing cultivated ginseng, and the rules and regulations of harvesting wild ginseng. This workshop will not include medicinal uses of ginseng.

If you’re interested in growing ginseng in you woodlot for income or pleasure register today by calling 607-334-5841. Please register by October 15, 2008.

There is a field and a classroom portion of this class- rain or shine

J. Rebecca Hargrave
Community Horticulture and Natural Resources Extension Educator
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Chenango County
99 N. Broad St.
Norwich, NY 13815
607-334-5841 x 16

Public Issues and Conflicts Management (Two 2-day sessions)

This workshop will be taught by experienced trainers from NOAA*s
Coastal Services Center.

There are two identical training opportunities, both at Norrie Point
Environmental Center.
ONLY Register for one.
1. Tuesday December 2 and Wednesday December 3 2008 from 9 to 5 pm
To register,copy the URL and paste into your browser:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=NSGJ_2fD3pYFtoXt92O8XPaA_3d_3d

2. Tuesday March 3 and Wednesday March 4 2009 from 9 to 5 pm
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Xo9eEC0Fprzn_2bzVuuqDm5g_3d_3d

This workshop will help you in the many projects you are involved in,
as it teaches you how to plan a meeting, build a team, deal with
difficult people, apply collaborative processes and deal with conflict.
The attached agenda gives more detail.  I have heard from many people
that they would like training in meeting facilitation and collaboration.
This gives you those skills, including the opportunity to apply
collaborative processes to an issue that you are working on.   This
training includes how to conduct a stakeholder analysis and how to
involve the public.  There is also a section on working effectively with
the media.
This workshop was held in August and was well received.

Collaboration and stakeholder involvement is a key component to
ecosystem-based management and many other projects that will help you
address the issues you work with.

This is a free workshop, funded by NOAA. You must commit to attend both
days.

For more information, see the attached agenda and this website
http://www.csc.noaa.gov/cms/cls/public_issues_conflict.html

For directions to Norrie Point: http://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/4915.html

__________________________________
Leslie

Leslie Surprenant
Invasive Species Management Coordinator
NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation
Office of Invasive Species Coordination
625 Broadway, 5th Floor
Albany, NY  12233-4756
518-402-8980

The Hudson River Estuary Research Reserve is hosting two free workshops
that may be valuable to you.   Both workshops will be held in the Hudson
Valley (Dutchess Co).

*Understanding your Audience: Effectively Characterizing and Engaging Stakeholders*

Taught by Shorna R.Broussard, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Natural Resources
Cornell University

Workshop Information:
Thursday  October 23, 2008
9:00 am-12:00 noon (optional networking *bring your own* lunch
until 1 pm.)
NYSDEC Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve
Norrie Point Environmental Center in Mills-Norrie State Park
Staatsburg, NY  12580
Directions: http://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/37889.html

Workshop Registration:
Register online:
Copy and paste this link into your browser:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=EHzbeWnanQYLvWObV5BJzA_3d_3d

Registration is limited, please register by Wednesday October 15, 2008

Click here for more information on who should attend and topics coveredClick here for more information on who should attend and topics covered.

Leslie

Leslie Surprenant
Invasive Species Management Coordinator
NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation
Office of Invasive Species Coordination
625 Broadway, 5th Floor
Albany, NY  12233-4756
518-402-8980

30 October 2008 at the Ramada Inn, Ithaca, NY.

Details (word doc)

Agenda (word doc)

This workshop is being held in Binghamton NY as a stand alone pre-conference workshop for the Association of Volunteer Resources Management organization.

If might be the  perfect 4hr ($45) professional development opportunity to help you advance the management of your program. It is on September 30 from 1pm to 5 pm and is being presented by a Cooperative Extension faculty from N.C.  who teaches numerous courses in volunteer management.

Workshop description:
It doesn’t take long for new administrators of volunteer programs to realize that to succeed at managing volunteers requires managers to wear a multitude of hats. Some days you’re the captain of the ship, then you’re asked to perform magic in your wizard’s hat, just before you pull on your garden hat to help grow new volunteers. Confusing,
overwhelming, rewarding, wonderful – mix all of this together and you have the reality of volunteer management. This session will feature a basic system for managing volunteer programs while focusing upon information and resources to help those new in the profession of volunteer resource management to adjust while finding the right fit for all their new hats!
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
1) assess organizational needs to identify potential volunteer roles;
2) prepare consistent, accurate position descriptions for volunteers;
3) develop action plans to strengthen orientation and training programs for volunteers;
4) describe a system for overall volunteer program management; and
5) design formal and informal volunteer recognition strategies.

More details about register are at: http://avrm.org/

If you are interested or plan to goto this workshop or any portion of this conference Lori (bushway@cornell.edu) would like to hear from you.

These Urban Horticulture MHS Assistantships in the Department of Horticultural Science at NC State include tuition, a stipend and a paid internship at Roanoke Island, NC at the Elizabethan Garden.

They are on going positions that will become available in January and refilled as students graduate.

Contact:

Lucy Bradley, Ph.D. Extension Specialist

Urban Horticulture North Carolina StateUniversity

Department of Horticultural Science

Lucy_Bradley@ncsu.edu

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~lkbradle/

Community Gardening

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/garden/CommunityGarden/

MHS Assistantship Available

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~lkbradle/assistantship.html

The National Plant Diagnostic Network and the Regional IPM Centers have joined together to offer a distance education opportunity to teach individuals how to conduct first detector training.  The training will be offered as two sessions which will be conducted on October 14^th and October 16^th.  These sessions are being offered free of charge to the participants.

this pdf file provides additional information regarding the training and access to the on-line registration.

Susan T. Ratcliffe, Ph.D.

Director, North Central IPM Center

University of Illinois

Department of Crop Sciences

1102 S. Goodwin Avenue

S-316 Turner Hall

Urbana, Illinois 61801

(217) 333-9656 (O)

(217) 333-5245 (F)

sratclif@ad.uiuc.edu

On line registration will begin on or about August 20, 2008.

http://www.unce.unr.edu/imgc/

If you or your volunteers are planning to attend FYI Lori. It would be great to hear how they thought it went and we might be able to offer a tiny “scholarship” if anyone was willing to give back something concrete to our NYS program based on what was learned at this conference.

CCE educators ….Here’s you opportunity to have your spectatcular volunteer nominated for outstanding contribution to your program and the community.

It’s time to begin work on applications for the International Search for Excellence awards. Search for Excellence is the recognition program of Master Gardener volunteer work throughout the United States and Canada. Master Gardener Volunteers will need to write the application but these must be approved by an Extension staff member.

Application deadline is October 1, 2008.

Awards will be presented at the International MG conference in Las Vegas, March 22-26, 2009.

For an application and information about the awards- visit our national Master Gardener site on eXtension at:

http://www.extension.org/pages/IMG_Search_for_Excellence

http://www.hort.uconn.edu/ipm/

This is Connecticut’s IPM Homepage. From this link you can find the IPM Homestudy Courses ( links on the left side of the page).
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