From cab69 at cornell.edu Wed Mar 4 12:07:53 2015 From: cab69 at cornell.edu (Chrys B. Gardener) Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 17:07:53 +0000 Subject: Spring into Gardening, Sat. March 28 at CCE Tompkins Message-ID: Spring Into Gardening! Saturday, March 28, 9:00am-4:30pm CCE-Tompkins, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca NY Choose from nine different gardening workshops in one day and get growing this spring! Sign up for just one or two, or stay for the whole day and attend four different workshops at a reduced price. Cost: $8 per class or a reduced price of $25 for 4 classes. Space is limited! Download a brochure and registration form at http://ccetompkins.org/gardening/garden-events/spring-into-gardening and send it in with payment, or call the reception desk at 272-2292 to register and pay with a credit/debit card. Workshop Schedule and Descriptions 9:00 am - 10:30 am Tool Sharpening Clinic: Properly sharpened pruners and handsaws make pruning tasks much easier and healthier for plants. Bring your dull loppers, hand pruners and pruning saws to this hands-on workshop led by local landscaper Bill Carini to learn how to maintain and sharpen these tools properly. Identifying and Managing Late Blight: Late blight is a serious plant disease that affects tomato and potato plants, especially in wetter summers. Master Gardener Tracy McLellan will show you how to identify the early stages of late blight on plants and give tips for managing the disease so you can still get a decent harvest. 10:45 am - 12:15 pm Gardening with Children: Kids have unbounded curiosity and wild enthusiasm about starting a garden. Join Yamila Fournier, the Ithaca Children's Garden's Facility Manager, to learn how to set your littlest green thumbs up for success. We'll cover choosing child-friendly varieties, planning a garden for continuous bloom, and some fun experiments to learn what's happening underground and inside those plants. Freezing Your Garden Fruits and Vegetables: Learn how to preserve your garden harvest to feed your family throughout the winter. Carole Fisher, CCE Consumer/Food Safety Educator, will demonstrate techniques on freezing fruits and vegetables to get the best results. You'll learn tips on blanching, packaging, and how to avoid freezingerrors, as well as an introduction to dehydrating your fruits and vegetables. Familiar and Uncommon Annual Flowers: Perhaps you have seen the beautiful flower plantings around the City of Ithaca and wondered what some of these plants are and how to grow them. Martha Gioumousis, Community Beautification Coordinator, has years of experience beautifying challenging locations and will show the best annual flowers to grow in both sunny and shady locations. Also covered will be tropical annuals, such as cannas and caladiums, that are grown from tubers. 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm-----LUNCH BREAK----- Bring a brown bag lunch to eat at CCE and network with other gardeners, or go out to a nearby caf? for lunch. 1:15 pm - 2:45 pm Unusual Fruits and Perennial Vegetables for the Ithaca Area: Sean Dembrosky, owner of Edible Acres in Trumansburg, will talk about less-common fruits such as paw-paw, persimmon, hardy kiwi , currant and jostaberry, and perennial vegetables such as cardoon, sea kale, skirret and air potato. Sean will also lead a hands-on demonstration on propagating edible perennial plants from cuttings.Participants will be able to take home cuttings from these plants for their own gardens. Compost Techniques for Every Lifestyle: The Master Composters of Tompkins County will give a tour of the compost demonstration site and talk about the pros and cons of various compost bin styles, both purchased and homemade. There will be a demonstration of how to effectively use many of the bins. Vermicomposting, or composting with worms, will also be covered briefly. 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Beginner Gardening for Butterflies and Bees: These friendly pollinating insects need food sources for both larvae and adults. Pat Curran, Master Gardener Program Coordinator, will show you how to diversify your plantings to encourage pollinators to 'set up house' in your garden instead of being transient visitors. Growing Staple Crops in the Home Garden: Learn how to grow staple crops that can feed you long into the winter months, such as pinto and black beans, soup peas, and flint corn for grinding into cornmeal. Chrys Gardener, Community Horticulture Educator, will show you how to grow garden crops that take up more space but are generally easier to maintain than traditional vegetables and are well-suited to growing in large backyards or a community garden plot. - See more at: http://ccetompkins.org/gardening/garden-events/spring-into-gardening Chrys Gardener Commercial/Community Horticulture Educator Cornell Cooperative Extension - Tompkins County 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca NY 14850 (607)272-2292, extension 241 www.ccetompkins.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sjr37 at cornell.edu Fri Mar 13 12:20:58 2015 From: sjr37 at cornell.edu (Sandra J. Repp) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 16:20:58 +0000 Subject: 3/17: 'Deer Resistant Ornamentals' class at CCE-Tompkins Message-ID: Deer Resistant Ornamentals Tuesday, March 17, 6:30-8:30pm Deer have become a major problem for gardeners in this area! This class will feature easy-to-grow flowers, shrubs, and trees that are deer-resistant. Fencing and repellents also will be discussed. Please call (607) 272-2292 to pre-register so we can be sure to make enough handouts! Cost: $5-$10 /person self-determined sliding scale. Call today, space is limited! NOTE: If you've taken this class before, come again for a refresher! This session will feature an updated PowerPoint and revised handouts, all incorporating the local experience and observations of our Horticulture staff and our Master Gardener volunteers regarding what plants deer in this area do and don't prefer! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cayutasunfarm at gmail.com Fri Mar 20 16:21:21 2015 From: cayutasunfarm at gmail.com (Michael Burns) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 16:21:21 -0400 Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Permaculture_Intern=28s=29_Sought_in_NY=E2=80=99s_Finger_Lakes?= =?UTF-8?Q?_Region?= Message-ID: Would you like to learn and work on a young and growing woodland farm? We invite you to experience and assist Cayuta Sun Farm's development. In the upcoming year stacks of shiitake mushroom logs , flocks of chicken , a small herd of pigs , and numerous gardens will require committed care and attention. Additionally, we are busy with design and construction projects, landscape assessment, brush clearing, pasture-management, plantings, cultivation and the unexpected challenges of building a farm. Twice during summer the farm will host educational events with the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute. All these tasks need competent help. This work can be an opportunity for the right person(s) who wish to augment their permaculture studies with hands-on work. We are lucky to be located in the beautiful Finger Lakes region of New York in a community that values and encourages small, innovative, and sustainable farms. We love our thriving local scene of permaculture practitioners; if you are a hard-working and thoughtful student of ecological design you may also. Visit out website to learn more and apply: *http://cayutasunfarm.com/the-farm/permaculture-work-traders-interns-sought-in-ny-finger-lakes-region/ * Sincerely, Michael Burns and Kelly Dietz *Cayuta Sun Farm * *607-227-0316 * *CayutaSunFarm.com* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From steve at fingerlakespermaculture.org Sun Mar 22 16:34:53 2015 From: steve at fingerlakespermaculture.org (Steve Gabriel) Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 16:34:53 -0400 Subject: Learn to farm the woods, upcoming ithaca events Message-ID: <550F276D.7050804@fingerlakespermaculture.org> FARMING THE WOODS a book by local authors Ken Mudge & Steve Gabriel Many of the daily indulgences we take for granted, such as coffee, chocolate, and many tropical fruits, all originate in forest ecosystems. But few know that such abundance is also available in the cool temperate forests of North America. A new book, Farming the Woods, covers in detail how to cultivate, harvest, and market high-value non-timber forest crops such as American ginseng, shiitake mushrooms, ramps (wild leeks), maple syrup, fruit and nut trees, ornamentals, and more. Learn more at upcoming events in Ithaca: Thursday, March 26, 2015 Durland Alternatives Library 127 Anabel Taylor Hall Cornell University 2 -- 4 pm, FREE and open to public Steve Gabriel will be giving a short presentation followed by discussion at the Durland Alternatives Library. This event is taking place Thursday, March 26that 2pm. This is part of a weekly event series called The Alternatives Cafe--connecting library materials to local interests. The cafe is a weekly opportunity for discussion, collaboration, and education. Coffee, tea, and light refreshments are available. http://www.alternativeslibrary.org/2015/03/09/farming-the-woods-presentation-by-steve-gabriel/ Thursday, April 9, 2015 INHABIT: A PERMACULTURE PERSPECTIVE 7:05 PM at Cinemapolis part of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival Inhabit (Costa Boutsikaris and Emmett Brennan, USA, 90 min.) A feature length documentary introducing permaculture. It presents a vast array of projects, concepts, and people, and it translates the diversity of permaculture into something that can be understood by an equally diverse audience. For those familiar, it will be a call to action and a glimpse into what's possible -- what kind of projects and solutions are already underway. For those unfamiliar, it will be an introduction to a new way of being and a new way of relating to the Earth. For everyone, it will be a reminder that humans are capable of being planetary healing forces.(Steve & Eizabeth Gabriel's Wellspring Forest Farm is featured). Get tickets now - this will likely sell out! Post screening discussion will include local permaculture practitioners and showcase upcoming events. TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/93538443 TICKETS: Buy a ticket: http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff/Films2015/?item=8210 Wednesday, April 22, 2015 Mann Library, Stern Seminar Room 160 Cornell University 4:00 -- 5:00 pm, FREE and open to public Would you like to learn how to cultivate, harvest, and market high-value non-timber forest crops such as American ginseng, shiitake mushrooms, ramps (wild leeks), maple syrup, fruit and nut trees, ornamentals, and more? Join us for a Chats in the Stacks book talk with Steve Gabriel, author of Farming the Woods: An Integrated Permaculture Approach to Growing Food and Medicinals in Temperate Forests (Chelsea Green Publishing, September 23, 2014). Coauthor of the book is Ken Mudge, associate professor in Department of Plant Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Gabriel is extension program aide for the college (Cornell Small Farms Program). Buffalo Street Books will offer books for purchase and signing, and light refreshments served. http://events.cornell.edu/event/Farming_the_Woods Learn more about the book at www.farmingthewoods.com -- www.FingerLakesPermaculture.org 607.527.0607 steve at fingerlakespermaculture.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cab69 at cornell.edu Wed Mar 25 09:26:33 2015 From: cab69 at cornell.edu (Chrys B. Gardener) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 13:26:33 +0000 Subject: FW: 3/28: "Spring into Gardening: A Day of Gardening Workshops!" at CCE-Tompkins In-Reply-To: References: <1425927932836.52232@cornell.edu> <1426275337110.25186@cornell.edu> Message-ID: Spring into Gardening: A Day of Gardening Workshops! Saturday March 28, 9:00am-4:30pm at CCE Tompkins, 615 Willow Avenue in Ithaca Choose from nine different gardening workshops in one day and get growing this spring! Sign up for just one or two, or stay for the whole day and attend four different workshops at a reduced price. Cost: $8 per class or a reduced price of $25/4 classes. Space is limited! Download a brochure and registration form at http://ccetompkins.org/gardening/garden-events/spring-into-gardening and send it in with payment, or call our reception desk at 272-2292 to register and pay with a VISA/MasterCard. Walk-ins are also welcome. Workshop Schedule and Descriptions 9:00 am - 10:30 am * Tool Sharpening Clinic: Properly sharpened pruners and handsaws make pruning tasks much easier and healthier for plants. Bring your dull loppers, hand pruners and pruning saws to this hands-on workshop led by local landscaper Bill Carini to learn how to maintain and sharpen these tools properly. * Identifying and Managing Late Blight: Late blight is a serious plant disease that affects tomato and potato plants, especially in wetter summers. Master Gardener Tracy McLellan will show you how to identify the early stages of late blight on plants and give tips for managing the disease so you can still get a decent harvest. 10:45 am - 12:15 pm * Gardening with Children: Kids have unbounded curiosity and wild enthusiasm about starting a garden. Join Yamila Fournier, the Ithaca Children's Garden's Facility Manager, to learn how to set your littlest green thumbs up for success. We'll cover choosing child-friendly varieties, planning a garden for continuous bloom, and some fun experiments to learn what's happening underground and inside those plants. * Freezing Your Garden Fruits and Vegetables: Learn how to preserve your garden harvest to feed your family throughout the winter. Carole Fisher, CCE Consumer/Food Safety Educator, will demonstrate techniques on freezing fruits and vegetables to get the best results. You'll learn tips on blanching, packaging, and how to avoid freezingerrors, as well as an introduction to dehydrating your fruits and vegetables. * Familiar and Uncommon Annual Flowers: Perhaps you have seen the beautiful flower plantings around the City of Ithaca and wondered what some of these plants are and how to grow them. Martha Gioumousis, Community Beautification Coordinator, has years of experience beautifying challenging locations and will show the best annual flowers to grow in both sunny and shady locations. Also covered will be tropical annuals, such as cannas and caladiums, that are grown from tubers. 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm-----LUNCH BREAK----- Bring a brown bag lunch to eat at CCE and network with other gardeners, or go out to a nearby caf? for lunch. 1:15 pm - 2:45 pm * Unusual Fruits and Perennial Vegetables for the Ithaca Area: Sean Dembrosky, owner of Edible Acres in Trumansburg, will talk about less-common fruits such as paw-paw, persimmon, hardy kiwi , currant and jostaberry, and perennial vegetables such as cardoon, sea kale, skirret and air potato. Sean will also lead a hands-on demonstration on propagating edible perennial plants from cuttings.Participants will be able to take home cuttings from these plants for their own gardens. * Compost Techniques for Every Lifestyle: The Master Composters of Tompkins County will give a tour of the compost demonstration site and talk about the pros and cons of various compost bin styles, both purchased and homemade. There will be a demonstration of how to effectively use many of the bins. Vermicomposting, or composting with worms, will also be covered briefly. 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm * Beginner Gardening for Butterflies and Bees: These friendly pollinating insects need food sources for both larvae and adults. Pat Curran, Master Gardener Program Coordinator, will show you how to diversify your plantings to encourage pollinators to 'set up house' in your garden instead of being transient visitors. * Growing Staple Crops in the Home Garden: Learn how to grow staple crops that can feed you long into the winter months, such as pinto and black beans, soup peas, and flint corn for grinding into cornmeal. Chrys Gardener, Community Horticulture Educator, will show you how to grow garden crops that take up more space but are generally easier to maintain than traditional vegetables and are well-suited to growing in large backyards or a community garden plot. For more information, visit: http://ccetompkins.org/gardening/garden-events/spring-into-gardening or direct your questions to: Chrys Gardener Commercial/Community Horticulture Educator Cornell Cooperative Extension - Tompkins County 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca NY 14850 (607) 272-2292, extension 241 www.ccetompkins.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sjr37 at cornell.edu Thu Mar 26 12:30:21 2015 From: sjr37 at cornell.edu (Sandra J. Repp) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 16:30:21 +0000 Subject: TONIGHT! 3/26: "Rain Barrels and Rain Gardens," 6:30-8:30pm at CCE-Tompkins Message-ID: Rain Barrels and Rain Gardens Thursday, March 26, 6:30-8:30pm @ Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca Water-wise gardeners capture rain and keep it safely on the property with rain barrels and rain gardens. These systems help sustain plants during short droughts, save money on water bills, and reduce stress on public water systems. For people with private wells, rain gardens are a simple but attractive way to recharge ground water. Please call (607) 272-2292 to pre-register so we can make sufficient handouts. Cost: $5-$10/person self-determined sliding scale. Questions? Contact Pat Curran at pc21 at cornell.edu. See also: http://ccetompkins.org/events/2015/03/26/rain-barrels-and-rain-gardens -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Michael at FingerLakesPermaculture.org Mon Mar 30 12:05:44 2015 From: Michael at FingerLakesPermaculture.org (Michael Burns) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 12:05:44 -0400 Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?Permaculture_Film=92s_Ithaca_Premier_Features_L?= =?windows-1252?Q?ocal_Author_=26_Farmers=2C_April_9th?= Message-ID: April 9th, 2015 at 7 p.m. Cinemapolis 120 E. Green Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 GET YOUR TICKETS ONLINE: http://8137.formovietickets.com/T.ASP?WCI=BT&Page=PickTickets&SHOWID=10932 WATCH "INHABIT" FILM TRAILER: http://fingerlakespermaculture.org/?p=3495 Ten years ago in the Northeast one could barely find a permaculture class, much less a site that demonstrated permaculture principles and techniques in action. Today there is a very different story emerging, and examples abound of permaculture applied to farms, gardens, urban environments, social systems, and more. In 2013, filmmakers Costa Boutsikaris and Emmett Brennan took a journey around the northeast and midwest U.S. and combined their eye for beauty with their passionate interest in permaculture to create a feature length documentary: INHABIT. The film presents a vast array of projects, concepts, and people translating the diversity of permaculture expressions into a message easily understood by an equally diverse audience. To those familiar with permaculture, it will be a call to action and a glimpse into what?s possible; what kind of projects and solutions are already underway. For those unfamiliar, it will be an introduction to a new way of being and a new way of relating to the Earth. For everyone, it will be a reminder that humans are capable of being planetary healing forces. INHABIT will be screening at the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) in Ithaca, New York on Thursday, April 9th. The FLEFF Festival embraces and interrogates sustainability across all of its forms: economic, social, ecological, political, cultural, technological, and aesthetic. This year their theme is HABITATS. ?Environments inhabited by animals, plants, organisms, minerals, fungi, bacteria. Terrains, waters, atmospheres defined by layers, relationships, and complexities surrounding the human and the nonhuman. Ecological systems offering sustenance and life.? The event is co-sponsored by the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute (FLPCI) and includes a segment with their cofounder Steve Gabriel, who maintains Wellspring Forest Farm alongside his wife Elizabeth in Mecklenburg NY, where they produce maple syrup, mushrooms, and raise ducks and sheep, while seeking to restore the landscape to a healthy state. Steve--along with Ken Mudge of Cornell University--is also the author of "Farming the Woods" a book recently published by Chelsea Green Press. After the film, join them along with Director Costa Boutsikaris and FLPCI Board Member Becky Sims for a post film discussion about permaculture and related projects and events in the Finger Lakes Region. PUT YOUR LOCAL PROJECT IN OUR FINGER LAKES PERMACULTURE DIRECTORY: http://fingerlakespermaculture.org/?p=3495 FACEBOOK EVENT LISTING: https://www.facebook.com/events/736565323117983/ WELLSPRING FOREST FARM: http://wellspringforestfarm.blogspot.com/ Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF): http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff/ Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute (FLPCI): http://fingerlakespermaculture.org ### From sjr37 at cornell.edu Mon Mar 30 15:42:53 2015 From: sjr37 at cornell.edu (Sandra J. Repp) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 19:42:53 +0000 Subject: 4/9: Landscape Design I at CCE-Tompkins Message-ID: <1427744573316.8024@cornell.edu> New! You can register online for this class! Landscape Design I Thursday April 9, 6:30-8:30 pm @ CCE-Tompkins, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca In this class participants, will learn site assessment techniques as well as design concepts like garden rooms, themed gardens, hardscaping as garden 'bones', wild-life friendly gardens, and how to add fall and winter interest. Whether your yard is a blank slate that you are designing from scratch, or an established garden that lacks pizazz, there are some simple design techniques that can really make your gardens shine while reducing maintenance tasks. The class will include time outside looking at the CCE gardens so please dress for the weather! Cost: $6-$10 self-determined sliding scale. See more information and register online at http://ccetompkins.org/events/2015/04/09/landscape-design-part-i or call 272-2292 to register by phone. Advance registration is strongly recommended so that we have contact information on file in case of cancellation due to weather or other unforeseen circumstances. 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