October

 Oct 2-3  Agri-Business Conference in Cobleskill, NY

4-H members Alexis Powers, Peter Kemmeren, Kaitlyn Stoltman, and Justin Wade will be learning about different areas of agriculture!

Oct 5  4-H Achievement Day   1pm in the Case Building at th.  Bring a dish to pass and table setting.  Contact Katrina at 607.34.5841 x17 or kle26@cornell.edu for more information!

Oct 5-11  National 4-H Week!

Show your 4-H pride with your club or other members - create a display promoting 4-H for your local library, town hall, or other central location and you could win a pizza party!  For complete contest information, contact Katrina at 607.334.5841 x17 or kle26@cornell.edu

Oct 9-12  2008 NY Beef Tour to PA  The 8th biannual NY Beef Producers Tour will be traveling to Pennsylvania. Planned tour stops include commercial and seedstock cow/calf operations, feedlots, organic beef production and packing plant, grass finished production and marketing, Pennsylvania Bull Test station, the PSU Beef Experiment station and the Gettysburg Battle Field. For more information contact Mike Baker, Cornell Beef Extension Specialist, 607-255-5923, mjb28@cornell.edu.

Oct 10  Making Ends Meet  9am-11am, Quaranta Housing Center, 43 Hale St., Norwich.  Learn techniques and tools that have helped lots of people enhance their financial situation. Find out about community resources that may assist you in reaching your financial goals. Presented by Opportunities for Chenango. Cost: Free! Call 607-336-2101 x 121 to register. Free Money Management Tools Will Be Provided.

Exploring Credit/Debt Management Issues  11am-1pm, Quaranta Housing Center, 43 Hale St., Norwich.  Learn the ins and outs of selecting and using credit wisely, strategies for paying down debt, obtaining and reviewing a credit report, and understanding a credit score. Presented by Opportunities for Chenango.  Cost: Free! Call 607-336-2101 x 121 to register. Free Credit Management Tools Will Be Provided.

Save Energy, Save Dollars  2pm-4pm, Quaranta Housing Center, 43 Hale St., Norwich.  Explore the many ways to reduce your energy bill through no-cost/low-cost energy actions. Choose ideas that work for your family & find out how much they will save you. Presented by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Chenango County.  Cost: Free! Call 607-336-2101 x 121 to register. Free energy tool kits will be provided.

Oct 11  Maple Confection I Workshop at Ben & Judy’s Sugarhouse, 770 Beaver Creek Rd., West Edmeston, NY.  Contact Ben or Judy Benjamin at 315-899-5864 to register.  Training and hands-on experience in making maple confections, conducted by Stephen Childs, New York State Maple Specialist.  COST:  $50 per farm for pre-registration or $60 at the door.  Class size is limited!  This workshop will be suitable for very experienced as well as novice confection-makers.  Each participating maple farm will receive a New York State Maple Confections notebook, digital thermometer and appropriate tools for measuring the quality of the maple syrup to be made into confections. Each participant will need to bring one quart of syrup to be used in the program.  This is the first in a two-part series of confections workshops part of the Quality Improvement and Market Expansion for New York Maple Value Added Products Project, sponsored by the New York State Farm Viability Institute and Cornell University Maple Program.

Oct 16  Growing Ginseng in Central New York

5:30 pm to 7:30 pm at DCMO BOCES Norwich Campus

COST: $15 per farm/family- Includes The Practical Guide to Growing Ginseng, by Bob Beyfuss.  If you’re interested in growing ginseng in your woodlot for income or pleasure register by Oct. 15th, call 607-334-5841.  There is a field and classroom portion of this class- rain or shine.

Oct 18  Fall Trout Sale Delivery at 10:30am  Sponsored by the Chenango County Soil & Water Conservation District.  Call 607.334.8634 ext 101 for order information.

Making Ends Meet  9am-11am, OFC, INC., 44 West Main St., Norwich.  Learn techniques and tools that have helped lots of people enhance their financial situation. Find out about community resources that may assist you in reaching your financial goals. Presented by Opportunities for Chenango. Cost: Free! Call 607-336-2101 x 121 to register. Free Money Management Tools Will Be Provided.

Exploring Credit/Debt Management Issues  11am-1pm, OFC, INC., 44 West Main St., Norwich.  Learn the ins and outs of selecting and using credit wisely, strategies for paying down debt, obtaining and reviewing a credit report, and understanding a credit score. Presented by Opportunities for Chenango.  Cost: Free! Call 607-336-2101 x 121 to register. Free Credit Management Tools Will Be Provided.

Save Energy, Save Dollars  2pm-4pm, OFC, INC., 44 West Main St., Norwich.  Explore the many ways to reduce your energy bill through no-cost/low-cost energy actions. Choose ideas that work for your family & find out how much they will save you. Presented by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Chenango County.  Cost: Free! Call 607-336-2101 x 121 to register. Free energy tool kits will be provided.

Oct 20  Farm Planning Strategies  7-9pm at CCE Chenango. Presented by Angela Gloy, NY Farmlink

Call Janet at 607.334.5841 x12 for more info! 

This class is free thanks to funding through Risk Management Education Grants.

Oct 24-25  2008 Cornell Sheep & Goat Symposium at the Livestock Pavilion and Morrison Hall on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca and at the Cornell Sheep Farm near Harford. To find out more, visit: http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/sheep/calendar/sgsymposium/index.html

Nov 1  Maple Confection I Workshop at Countryside Hardware, 1712 Albany St., Deruyter, NY

Contact Sandy Wilcox at 315-852-3326 by October 15th to register.  Class size is limited!  This workshop will be suitable for very experienced as well as novice confection-makers.  Each participating maple farm will receive a New York State Maple Confections notebook, digital thermometer and appropriate tools for measuring the quality of the maple syrup to be made into confections. Each participant will need to bring one quart of syrup to be used in the program.  This is the first in a two-part series of confections workshops part of the Quality Improvement and Market Expansion for New York Maple Value Added Products Project, sponsored by the New York State Farm Viability Institute and Cornell University Maple Program.

September

Sept 3   Starting Wed, Sept 3rd, 4-H State Fair Participants can pick up their state fair items at the CCE Office

Sept 10 - Learn the Steps to Ag Business Planning

Experienced business executives from SCORE walk you through the steps of creating that all-important business plan. Class size is limited to 15 participants! Register by September 8th! Call CCE Chenango at 607-334-5841.  This class is free thanks to funding through Risk Management Education Grants.

Sept 11  Maple Syrup Producers Workshop: Trials in Sugarbush Thinning, Tubing and Vacuum 

4pm-7 pm at Baker’s Norwich Sugarbush, Lawton-Sheer Rd., Norwich, NY.  COST:  $10 per farm or family.  Call 607-334-5841 to register by September 9. 

Presented by: Pete Smallidge- NYS Extension Forester and Director of the Arnot Forest, Cornell University; Steve Childs- NYS Maple Extension Specialist, Cornell University

Sept 12  All 4-H Forms Due by 4pm to CCE Office!

Sept 13  Making Ends Meet  9am-11am, OFC, INC., 44 West Main St, Norwich.  Learn techniques and tools that have helped lots of people enhance their financial situation. Find out about community resources that may assist you in reaching your financial goals. Presented by Opportunities for Chenango. Cost: Free! Call 607-336-2101 x 121 to register. Free Money Management Tools Will Be Provided.

Exploring Credit/Debt Management Issues  11am-1pm, OFC, INC., 44 West Main St., Norwich.  Learn the ins and outs of selecting and using credit wisely, strategies for paying down debt, obtaining and reviewing a credit report, and understanding a credit score. Presented by Opportunities for Chenango.  Cost: Free! Call 607-336-2101 x 121 to register. Free Credit Management Tools Will Be Provided.

Save Energy, Save Dollars  2pm-4pm, OFC, INC., 44 West Main St., Norwich.  Explore the many ways to reduce your energy bill through no-cost/low-cost energy actions. Choose ideas that work for your family & find out how much they will save you. Presented by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Chenango County.  Cost: Free! Call 607-336-2101 x 121 to register. Free energy tool kits will be provided.

Sept 15  ALL 4-H Animal Science Project Records due by 4pm!  4-H members who participate in the Animal Science Project Areas  must have them filled out to the best of your ability.  These records are needed to receive 4-H credit for the participation year, 2007-08.  Extra records are available at the 4-H Office.

Sept 16  Celebrate 4-H Week Promotional Display Contest - Forms due!  Call Katrina at 607.334.8541 x17 for more info.  For complete contest rules and forms visit

www.cce.cornell.edu/chenango

Sept 20  Making Ends Meet  10am-12pm, Moore Memorial Library, Greene.  Learn techniques and tools that have helped lots of people enhance their financial situation. Find out about community resources that may assist you in reaching your financial goals. Presented by Opportunities for Chenango. Cost: Free! Call 607-336-2101 x 121 to register. Free Money Management Tools Will Be Provided.

Exploring Credit/Debt Management Issues  12pm-2pm, Moore Memorial Library, Greene.  Learn the ins and outs of selecting and using credit wisely, strategies for paying down debt, obtaining and reviewing a credit report, and understanding a credit score. Presented by Opportunities for Chenango.  Cost: Free! Call 607-336-2101 x 121 to register. Free Credit Management Tools Will Be Provided.

Save Energy, Save Dollars  2pm-4pm, Moore Memorial Library, Greene.  Explore the many ways to reduce your energy bill through no-cost/low-cost energy actions. Choose ideas that work for your family & find out how much they will save you. Presented by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Chenango County.  Cost: Free! Call 607-336-2101 x 121 to register. Free energy tool kits will be provided.

Sept 27  Forestry Field Day  8:30am to 12:30pm, Cook Park in Greene. Hands-on sessions on basic woodlot management will be presented throughout the morning.  There will be sessions on tree identification, tree volume measurements, selecting trees and managing forest stands for firewood, wildlife habitat management, and creating old growth conditions in forest stands.  Each family will receive a field day packet including printed materials, along with a tree measuring stick.  COST: $15 for one, $5 for each additional family member (includes materials). Rain or shine. More info on page 2!

For more information on many of these events check out the online editions of Extension Express

Incubation and Embryology Project
Project registration available from the 4-H Office.
Learn more about the life cycle and development while having fun hatching eggs. Cost: $10 per dozen eggs. Contact Janet for more information, (607) 334-5841 Ext. 12 or jlp27@cornell.edu.

If you are not listed in our Guide to Locally Grown Products and would like to be: please go to http://www.cce.cornell.edu/chenango/Guides/consumerguide.htm and fill out the producer form or call 334-5841.