'Growing Together' with Cornell Cooperative Extension
CHENANGO COUNTY – Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) of Chenango County is looking for participants for two upcoming programs.
There are 20 openings for the Grow Cook Eat program and they are also currently recruiting volunteers for Grow Cook Serve. Both programs are funded by Chenango United Way and are coordinated by Alexis Woodcock. Alexis is new to Cornell Cooperative Extension of Chenango County and is excited to continue both programs in 2017.
Grow Cook Eat is a 10-month program which helps people learn to grow their own food and preserve it, cook nutritious meals, and set health related goals such as increasing physical activity. Each participant is provided with a community garden plot, container garden, or support for gardening in their own yard. Requirements for graduation include taking five gardening classes, six cooking and nutrition classes, three food preservation classes, three physical fitness classes or group activities, goal setting and evaluation activities, and completing 10 hours of volunteer work in the community.
Registration is $50 (non-refundable) and those who complete all the required activities will receive a graduation gift certificate for $75. Additional classes can be taken at the discounted rate of $5 per class.
Grow Cook Serve is a program designed to provide healthy local food, increase food capacity for food pantries and build self-reliance and food security for those in need in Chenango County.
Volunteers are needed to grow an extra row in their garden of a crop, such as potatoes, winter squash, and carrots, which have a long shelf-life and can be transported easily. The crop will be collected by CCE of Chenango County and delivered to local food pantries and soup kitchens.
If gardening is not your thing, Grow Cook Serve also has an opportunity to train volunteers to do food preservation to donate food for year-round use. In addition, CCE is looking for participants to staff food pantries, and soup kitchens, and to teach container gardening skills to clients at food pantries, soup kitchens, and head start centers.
Anyone interested in participating in Grow Cook Eat or volunteering for Grow Cook Serve, can contact Alexis Woodcock at (607) 334-5841 ext. 20 or by email at asw239@cornell.edu. You may also download an application form at www.ccechenango.org/gardening-horticulture/grow-cook-eat.
– Grady Thompson, Sun Staff Writer
There are 20 openings for the Grow Cook Eat program and they are also currently recruiting volunteers for Grow Cook Serve. Both programs are funded by Chenango United Way and are coordinated by Alexis Woodcock. Alexis is new to Cornell Cooperative Extension of Chenango County and is excited to continue both programs in 2017.
Grow Cook Eat is a 10-month program which helps people learn to grow their own food and preserve it, cook nutritious meals, and set health related goals such as increasing physical activity. Each participant is provided with a community garden plot, container garden, or support for gardening in their own yard. Requirements for graduation include taking five gardening classes, six cooking and nutrition classes, three food preservation classes, three physical fitness classes or group activities, goal setting and evaluation activities, and completing 10 hours of volunteer work in the community.
Registration is $50 (non-refundable) and those who complete all the required activities will receive a graduation gift certificate for $75. Additional classes can be taken at the discounted rate of $5 per class.
Grow Cook Serve is a program designed to provide healthy local food, increase food capacity for food pantries and build self-reliance and food security for those in need in Chenango County.
Volunteers are needed to grow an extra row in their garden of a crop, such as potatoes, winter squash, and carrots, which have a long shelf-life and can be transported easily. The crop will be collected by CCE of Chenango County and delivered to local food pantries and soup kitchens.
If gardening is not your thing, Grow Cook Serve also has an opportunity to train volunteers to do food preservation to donate food for year-round use. In addition, CCE is looking for participants to staff food pantries, and soup kitchens, and to teach container gardening skills to clients at food pantries, soup kitchens, and head start centers.
Anyone interested in participating in Grow Cook Eat or volunteering for Grow Cook Serve, can contact Alexis Woodcock at (607) 334-5841 ext. 20 or by email at asw239@cornell.edu. You may also download an application form at www.ccechenango.org/gardening-horticulture/grow-cook-eat.
– Grady Thompson, Sun Staff Writer
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