Otsego County Master Gardener Schedule

*The Education Center is located at 123 Lake St., Cooperstown, NY 13326

May 9 – CANCELLED: Planning Your Garden - Manageable Garden Design for Food & Floral

• 10 a.m. @ the Huntington Library, Oneonta
  • Carol Phelps, Master Gardener
    • A gardener has dreams of fresh vegetables every night of the season and knows all those gorgeous flowers in garden centers must find a place in the landscape. By mid-summer, if dreams were too big, gardening is not an enjoyable hour of puttering, but an endless chore to keep it all looking respectable. This hour-long workshop will help participants focus their gardening enthusiasm so it stays enjoyable all season long.

  May 13 – CANCELLED: Container Gardening

  • Noon – 1 p.m.
  • Education Center*
    • Francine Stayter, Master Gardener

  May 23 – CANCELLED: Annual Plant Sale

  • 9 a.m. – Noon
  • Education Center*

  June 10 – CANCELLED: Invasives are Everywhere!

  • Noon – 1 p.m.
  • Education Center*
    • Peter Coleman, Master Gardener

  July 22 – CANCELLED: All America Selections Open House

  • 4 - 7 p.m.
  • Education Center*

  Aug 4-9 – CANCELLED: Otsego County Fair

  • Morris Fairgrounds
    • Master Gardener exhibit

  Sept 9 – CANCELLED: Fermentation

  • 11 a.m. - Noon
  • Education Center*
    • Chris Burrington and Bob McCann, Master Gardeners

  Sept 9 – CANCELLED: Saving Seed

  • Noon – 1 p.m.
  • Education Center*
    • Master Gardener TBA

  Sept 9 – CANCELLED: Harvest Festival

  • The Farmers’ Museum
    • Master Gardener exhibit

  Sept 26 – CANCELLED: Fall Symposium

  • The Otesaga Resort Hotel
    • Keynote Speaker: Ken Druse - Celebrated lecturer, award-winning author and photographer; called “the guru of natural gardening” by the New York Times.
  • Concurrent sessions:
    • Pest and Plant Diseases in a Changing Climate: Tony Antes, Federated Garden Club of NY
    • Bio-Intensive Gardening: Carla Crim, Ph.D., Horticulture Educator, Master Gardener Program Leader, CCE Delaware Co.
    • New Takes on Container Gardens: Barbara Melera, Horticulturalist, Flora Historian, Proprietor, Harvesting-History Heirloom Seed Co.
    • Plant Propagation and Planting Strategies: Chris Cash, Professor Emeritus of Plant Science, SUNY Cobleskill

  Oct 14 – Forcing Bulbs

  • Noon - 1 p.m.
  • Education Center*
    • Susan Jones, Master Gardener

  Oct 17 – Down in the Dirt - Composting and Improving Soil Health

  • (Location and Time TBA)
    • Carol Phelps, Master Gardener

  Nov 4 – Program Topic TBA

Last updated August 25, 2020