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Grow with Cornell Cooperative Extension in Creating a Place for Learning through Gardening

Those who garden say what science has proven in recent years. Gardening promotes health and wellbeing, quality of life, sense of community, and happiness.

The Grow with Cornell Cooperative Extension campaign will bring an investment in informal learning for county residents, featuring teaching and display gardens and outdoor classroom. It will become an invaluable asset in informing adults and 4-H youth through hands-on learning.

Your gift can directly improve the lives of others by investing in an organization that is not only tied academically to the science and art of gardening—Cornell Cooperative Extension—but also to an organization that is true to its mission statement in “building strong and vibrant New York communities.”

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Grow with Cornell Cooperative Extension, Creating a Place for Learning through Gardening

CCE kicked off its Grow with CCE campaign last year to redevelop the Cooperstown’s Education and Outreach Center. Read more about the project and how you can help.

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Bringing Nature Home

Bringing Nature Home to Our Gardens and Communities

Hosted by Otsego Master Gardener Volunteers.

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Japanese Knotweed plant

Japanese Knotweed

This bamboo-like plant is shade-tolerant and grows from 3 to 15 feet tall, in disturbed areas, often near water sources.

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fresh compost

Make Compost!

Find resources here on how to start and maintain a home compost bin! Learn how to turn food and yard waste into "black gold" for your garden!

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Kitchen garden in Gers, France with marigolds, tomatoes and trellises

Growing your own food

Growing your own food can be a very satisfying effort that pays off in a number of ways.

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Deer Tick on leaf

Tick Talk

Learn the types of ticks found in New York, diseases they cause, how to identify them, and how to protect yourself and your family by avoiding tick bites.

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Last updated May 15, 2023

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Cutting Gardens

Deer Resistant Plants 

Pollinators

Sensory Gardens

Shade Gardens

Find Your Zone!

2012 USDA Hardiness Zone Map






The 2012 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map helps gardeners and growers determine which plants are most likely to thrive at a location. For the first time, the map is available as an interactive GIS-based map, for which a broadband Internet connection is recommended. Users may also simply type in a ZIP Code and find the hardiness zone for that area.

Useful Links

Cornell Garden Based Learning Program

Cornell Turf Grass Program

Cornell Vegetable MD Online

Dairy One Agronomy Services

IPM Fact Sheets for Vegetables

Late Blight Brochure

DEC Wildlife Nuisance Help

Berry Webinar Archive

baskets of berries at the DeWitt Farmers' Market, Ithaca NY

 Find online webinars on a range of topics from Cornell's Berry Program!

USAblight

A National Project on Tomato & Potato Late Blight in the United States

Click here for the Current Disease Map and to Check Alerts!

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