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Reaching Out to New York Communities: CCE Interns Tell Their Stories
Last year, the Cornell Cooperative Extension Internship Program fostered outreach among Cornell students in New York State. Working with faculty and staff members, interns formed partnerships and advanced community-based work in several areas, includ...
Consumer Education Program for Residential Energy Efficiency
Cornell Cooperative Extension is helping New Yorkers do more to reduce energy use in the state. Through a creative partnership between Cornell University and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), Cornell Cooperative ...
New York Potato Takes Center Stage in Chef-Producer Local Food Partnership
In an effort to increase local food consumption from the ground up, Cornell Cooperative Extension educators have connected chefs and producers in an innovative local food partnership. The effort aims to refine and market New York State potatoes to lo...
CCE Orients NY Maple Industry toward Bigger Profits
Here’s a new recipe for sweet returns: Blend a thousand gallons of pure maple syrup, hours of Cornell University research, and a team of Extension educators over steady heat to boiling. Continue heating to 245 degrees F, and then stir rapidly w...
CCE Study Evaluates Ways to Improve Milk Component Production and Premiums in Northern NY
In the sparsely populated landscape of New York’s North Country, dairy farmers produce millions of dollars worth of milk each year. Jefferson County, for example, on the western side of northern New York State, has just over 111,000 residents a...
CCE Supports High Tunnel Crop Production in NYS
On warm fall days, bumblebees may hover near the end doors of plastic-covered hoop houses, waiting to target raspberry plants inside. Growers welcome the attention paid to the blooming plants by these foragers. It is another benefit of bramble high t...
Cornell's Strengthening Families Program Helps Caregivers Build Family Relationships
Several weeks into a Strengthening Families workshop in Brooklyn, New York, Jackie Davis-Manigaulte, senior extension associate and program leader for Family & Youth Development at Cornell Cooperative Extension in New York City, asked program par...
Spotlight
CCE of Westchester County, Cornell alumnae (Elisabeth Radow and Marshal Case), and the City of White Plains celebrated Ezra Cornell in White Plains, New York, by planting an American chestnut tree in his honor on April 24. The tree will help researchers and educators to study the American chestnut, which has been threatened by blight since the 20th century.
