SCNY AG News Events
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CCE Cortland Presents:
4-H Dairy Rodeo
Saturday, May 11th 10am-7pm
Corland County Fairgrounds
Each year the 4-H office and volunteers hold a fantastic educational and fun program for both the younger, less experienced and older and more experienced 4-H members.
You will learn how to prepare a animal for show. Wonderful Volunteers and Teens will be there to assist and help youth with special and interesting tips to help clip, groom and improve the showing of their animal.
Click below for details and registration. Pre-Registration is required by May 6th
*Photo by CCE Cortland
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CCE Tompkins Presents:
2024 Garden Fair and Plant Sale
Friday, May 17th 1pm-7pm
Ithaca Farmers' Market
CCE Tompkins' Plant Sale will take place Friday, May 17th from 1-7pm at the Ithaca Farmers Market.
This sale features a wide variety of vendors offering specialty plants and gardening advice on topics ranging from growing rock garden plants to selecting native species. Plants for sale include organically grown and heirloom vegetable transplants, colorful annuals, fragrant herbs, hanging baskets, small flowering shrubs, hardy roses, fruit crops, trees, evergreens, and specialty perennials.
CCE-Tompkins Master Gardeners and other community groups will also be participating.
Admission is FREE!
CLICK HERE FOR FULL VENDOR LIST
*Photo by CCE Tompkins
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CCE Cortland Presents:
2024 NY Percheron Assoc. Youth and Novice Clinic
Saturday, May 18th 9am-3pm
Cortland County Fairgrounds
Join us at the Cortland County Fairgrounds, May 18th, for a Youth and Novice Percheron Clinic open to all who wish to learn about draft horses (especially Percherons).
Attendees will experience hands-on instruction for correctly harnessing, hitching safety, driving single horse and teams of Percherons.
No horse is needed. Activities are perfect everyone from beginning to more advanced horsemen.
Admission is just $15 and includes light breakfast, lunch, the day's events and a 1 year membership to the NY Percheron Association.
*Photo by CCE Cortland
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CCE Tompkins Presents:
Keeping Backyard Chickens
Tuesday, May 21st
Online Only
Learn practical advice for how to successfully raise chickens for home egg production. This class will explore topics including: sourcing healthy birds, determining which laying varieties are best for your needs, options for housing and nutrition, common illness and pest prevention, and the joys of living with chickens!
This class meets the requirements from the Villages of Trumansburg and Dryden for a chicken permit. The class is only online and will be recorded, but only those who attend live will receive a letter to take to their municipality.
*Photo by Sarah Lubold
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CCE Tompkins Presents:
Citizen Pruners: Hands-On Workshop
Tuesday, May 7th - In Person ONLY
CCE Tompkins Office - Ithaca, NY
Each spring, CCE-Tompkins offers a multi-part training series for individuals who want to learn best practices for selecting, planting, caring for, and pruning ornamental trees and shrubs.
This class is part 4 of a 4-part series
*Photo by Maria Turkmani - Pexels.com
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NYFOA-NW Presents:
Enhancing the Values of Family Forests in the Northeast Conference
Friday, May 17th - Sunday, May 19th
Various Locations
Please join us for an inaugural gathering of the New York Forest Owners and Northern Woodlands organizations for a few days of fun and learning in the beautiful Finger Lakes Region of New York.
Topics include: Cultivating Nut Trees for Fun and Profit;
The Make or Break of Limiting Deer Impacts; Virtual Reality: A New Way to See the Forests and the Trees;
Four Decades of Woodland Management Adaption at Angus Glen Farms; Tree Planting for Profit; Silvopasturing for Greater Woodland Value and Viability; and a Birding and Botany walk rounds out the weekend on Sunday.
Register today! Registration CLOSES May 8th.
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Last updated April 23, 2024
