Fruit and Vegetable Growers of Onondaga County

CCE Onondaga has joined with Cornell University Cooperative Extension’s  highly acclaimed Fruit and Vegetable Teams who bring their expertise and assistance to commercial fruit and vegetable growers in Onondaga County.  These teams serve producers across New York State by bringing cutting-edge research and proven techniques to individual farms.  Fruit and vegetable producers in Onondaga County will now have access to experts in a variety of subjects, including:

When you join the Fruit and Vegetable Program, you become a member of this professional organization, and you will have access to cutting edge research based information.  There will be no cost for the first year of enrollment. Some of the benefits include:

• Telephone/email consultations
• Fruit or Vegetable Newsletters
• Direct Mailings
• Educational Meeting & Conferences
• In-Field Educational Opportunities
• Conduct/Coordinate On-Farm Research Trails in the Region

For more specific information on the teams, please visit the following websites:

Cornell Vegetable Program: http://cvp.cce.cornell.edu

Cornell Fruit Program: http://www.fruit.cornell.edu/lof/

Fruit Enrollment Form click here.

Vegetable Enrollment Form click here.

Companion Planting

The Three Sisters, and More Vegetables That Play Well, With Others.

by Mike Woliansky – Contributing writer – is with the Cornell Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners of Onondaga County.

To read more about this article, please click here.

Syracuse celebrates 21st year as Tree City USA!

On April 29th Cornell Cooperative Extension staff, CommuniTree Stewards and Master Gardener volunteers joined the students and staff at Bellevue Elementary to celebrate Arbor Day by planting 13 trees at Bellevue Elementary School. Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney and City of Syracuse Parks and Recreation Commissioner Baye Muhammad helped the students to plant the trees.

This year’s Arbor Day marked the 21st year Syracuse received Tree City USA status.  Ken Lynch, the Regional Director of NYS Department of Environmental Conservation gave the Tree City USA proclamation to Commissioner Muhammad.

The day was also marked by the start of Onondaga County’s Save the Rain tree planting program.  Executive Joanie Mahoney announced that the County intends to plant 8,500 trees by 2018 – over half of these trees will be planted by community groups.

Watch the News Clip from Channel 9 WSYR

See photos of the tree planting – http://www.flickr.com/photos/scsd/sets/72157626659417540/