Garden Troubleshooting: Pest & Disease (Online Class) Friday, July 11, 2025 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Online Event Is something eating your vegetables? Are your tomato leaves turning yellow? Not sure if that spot on your plant is a disease or just stress? Join us for a free and interactive online class designed to help home gardeners and growers identify and manage common summer garden problems.In this class you'll learn:How to spot the most common pests and plant diseases in your garden What to do when you see wilting, leaf spots, insects, or odd growth Natural and conventional treatment options When to act and when not to panic How to send better photos or samples for diagnosis Presented by Cristian Acosta, Agriculture educator, Cornell Cooperative Extension Allegany CountyDate: Friday, July 11, 2025Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pmWhere: Online, via Zoom Registration: Click here to registerFee: FREEDon’t miss this chance to protect your plants, learn new skills, and connect with fellow gardeners in your community. Cristian Acosta, cfa34@cornell.edu, 585-268-7644 ext 14 ========================================= Cover Crop & Soil Health Field Day Wednesday, August 13, 2025 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Country Crossroads Feed and Seed, 3186 County Rte 61 , Andover, NY 14806 Please join us for a morning of hands-on learning with expert insights from local farmers, industry representatives, and extension. We will have some demonstration plots in action along with discussion about how cover crops influence soils and demonstration showing impacts on farm resiliency. Free to attend, however, pre-registration requested by August 6th to assist with planing. Register Online:  https://reg.cce.cornell.edu/AC_SoilHealthFieldDay_202 This field day will be held rain or shine!Questions, please contact Lynn Bliven (585) 268-7644 ext. 18 or email lao3@cornell.edu. Lynn Bliven, lao3@cornell.edu, 585-268-7644 ext 18 ========================================= Organic Cover Crop & Soil Health Field Day Thursday, September 11, 2025 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Hinz-Sight Dairy Farm Camp, 10400 County Rd 23 , Fillmore, NY 14735 Please join us for a morning of hands-on learning with expert insights from local farmers, industry representatives, and extension. We will have some demonstration plots in action along with discussion about how cover crops influence soils and demonstration showing impacts on farm resiliency.Free lunch provided following field walk. Free to attend, however, pre-registration requested by September 5th to assist with planning. Register Online: https://reg.cce.cornell.edu/SoilHealth_Allegany_County-2_202This field day will be held rain or shine!Questions, please contact Lynn Bliven (585) 268-7644 ext. 18 or email lao3@cornell.edu.Hosted by Hinz-Sight Dairy Farm Presenters: Rod Porter, King’s AgriSeeds Jerry Stewart is from Balanced Biologics and will be talking about Soil Health, Crop Health and Animal Health. Dale Bartholomew is from Rovensa will be talking about the Soil Health benefits of ORO- RZ (Reducing compaction, Water moving laterally, increasing the soils water holding capacity and increasing microbial activity.)Matt Havens, NRCS Soil Scientist - Soil Health Demonstrations: Rainfall simulator, slake test, soil infiltration, tighty whities test. Andrea Martinez, PhD Student Cornell University - Cover crops influence on soil organic matter and rhizosphere. Lynn Bliven, lao3@cornell.edu, 585-268-7644 ext 18 ========================================= Board of Directors' Meeting Tuesday, September 16, 2025 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm CCE Allegany County , 5435 County Rd. 48 , Belmont, NY 14813 na Laura Hunsberger, lkh47@cornell.edu, 585-268-7644 ext 17 ========================================= Silvopasture on a Shoestring Tuesday, October 7, 2025 9:00 am - 3:00 pm Wild Geese Farm, 8499 Agett Rd , Franklinville, NY 14737 Join Joshua Greene, Director of Education at Trees For Graziers, and Lynn Bliven, owner of Wild Geese Farm for a full day training event that will include classroom and hands-on sessions. The focus will be on DIY silvopasture projects on small grazing farms. We will address the practical considerations of tree establishment, protection, and maintenance while learning how silvopasture can help address your farm’s resource concerns and enhance livestock grazing.The workshop is from 9am - 3pm and includes morning refreshments and lunch. Topics:layout and design considerationstree species for silvopasturetree planting basicstree protection methodsthe importance of aftercaregrazing considerations old orchard silvopasturetick concerns with silvopasture establishmentCost $25/person. Held rain or shine. Preregistration requested by September 30th, click here to register inline. Our presenter: Joshua Greene, Director of Education at Trees For Graziers, runs Greene Kitchen Farm with his wife Nichole and their children. They custom graze certified organic dairy heifers and raise grass-fed beef & pastured poultry for direct market and ‘good eating’. Joshua and his family have worked to build a flexible, low-input grazing system on average Pennsylvania hillside soils. In place of the dying ash trees, they have planted over 2000 trees on the farm to provide shade for livestock.About Wild Geese Farm: A 52-acre farm, raising registered Hereford cattle and Katahdin sheep. They have been rotationally grazing livestock for 30+ years. Farm Products include breeding stock along with grass-fed beef and lamb. This is their second season grazing within silvopasture planting while further developing an integrated system for the farm. Lynn Bliven, lao3@cornell.edu, 585-268-7644 ext 18 =========================================