Annual Report 2009-2010

Program Highlights, 2009-2010

diversity local energy

rural sustainability breastfeeding $ave Dollars parenting gardening Home youth leadership

Whole Community Project 4-H family

farmers’ markets Natural Leaders biomass Way2Go $ave Energy

urban Consumer Issues community agriculture compost EmpowerNY Radon beautification food education

ccetompkins.org RYS nutrition volunteer afterschool go green credit environment FARMS

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County 2010 Board of Directors & Program Advisory Committees

Association Officers Shawn Martel-Moore, President Jeannie Barnaba, Vice President Mimi Thuesen, Treasurer Sarah Reistetter, Secretary

At-Large Board Members David Dier Gayle Flinn Rebecca Sparrow

Program Committees

Agriculture & Horticulture Program Environmental Issues Program Our Mission: Wendy Fillmore John Fleming Brian Chabot Katie Borgella Sharon Garland Chris Grant Marian Brown Barry Goodrich To strengthen Mike Griggs Dennis Hartley Marty Hatch David Keifer Carol John Jeanine Kirby Caroline Kellogg Stefan Minott Dean Koyanagi Brent Welch Margaret McCasland Tom Shelley youth, adults,

Consumer & Financial Education Program Family & Community Development Program families and Aaron M. Buechel Carol Clark Stephanie Baptist Eloise Barrett Steve Hopkins Elizabeth Krohn Wayne Gooden Susan Hatch communities Barbara Nellenback Kevin Nickerson Trisha Ladley Kathy Lind Billie Nordby Patrick Woods Teri Reinemann Rebecca Schwed through 4-H Youth Development Program Nutrition, Health & Safety Program learning Bruce Abbott Joann Gruttadaurio Srijana Bajracharya Jean Bowering Lauren Liotta Linnett Short Deborah Bush Bonita Davis Jon Ulrich Monica Voionmaa Soledad Exantus Amy Frith partnerships Lucy Garrison-Clausen Suzanne Gervais Lisa Hoyte Lara Kaltman that put Legislative Liaison Lynnette Scofield Andrea Smith Will Burbank, Tompkins County Legislator John Ward Mary Dawn Wright knowledge Dave McKenna, Tompkins County Legislator to work. Extension Representative Charles Fausold

Retiring in 2009: Josephine Allen, Christine Ashdown, John Bailey, Christine Barksdale, Ronald Benson, Travis Brooks, Jasmine Cubero, Aaron Dennis, Cindy Easton, Kirsten Gabriel, Anthony Gallucci, Shuly Gross, Patricia Haines, Julia Lapp, Emma Loughman, Susan Monagan & Dan Segal

2 1 2010 Board of Directors Lighten Up Tompkins! Targets 5,000 & Program Advisory Committees Homes with Door-to-Door Campaign

More than 300 volun- bags. Cargill was the event’s upgrades to her home.” teers visited homes throughout major sponsor, donating $15,000 The volunteers also Tompkins County one Saturday for the effort. New York State garnered positive reviews. “The in late October 2010 in what Energy Research & Development students who came to our house may be Upstate New York’s Authority (NYSERDA) also were really wonderful,” said John largest door-to-door energy ef- provided ficiency outreach effort. 5,000 financial rural households were targeted support. by the effort, dubbed Lighten Each bag Up Tompkins! and organized by included a Cornell Cooperative Extension of compact Tompkins County. fluorescent “Although people have bulb (CFL), heard that small changes in information habits can add up to big energy on steps savings, it sometimes takes per- to take to sonal contact to convince them increase to take that first step,” said Mike home Koplinka-Loehr, CCE-Tompkins’ energy Senior Energy Management Co- efficiency ordinator for Lansing and a coor- and on pro- dinator of the event. grams to “Having trained volun- help finance teers visit individual households home seemed like an effective way to energy break down that initial barrier upgrades, a Cornell student volunteers (right) distributed bags of energy-efficiency items and and engage people in their own list of local information to Tompkins County residents in a one-day, door to door outreach home’s energy conservation,” BPI-certified effort targeting 5,000 households on October 30, 2010. Students visited homes in Dryden, Lansing, Danby, Newfield, Enfield and Ulysses. Koplinka-Loehr continued. “We contractors, also encouraged residents to call coupons from local businesses, a Sterling, a resident of Warren us at CCE-Tompkins with any CD of energy-saving tips, and an Road in Lansing. “We heard additional questions they might entry form to a raffle for $2000 in about the event on the radio. Our have.” energy-related prizes and old driveway lamp burned out Advance publicity let services. a few days ago and they kindly residents know that volunteers 300 Cornell University changed the bulb.” At another would be visiting parts of the students were recruited to home, an elderly resident’s Towns of Dryden, Lansing, deliver the bags, through the kitchen light had burned out and Danby, Newfield, Enfield, and Cornell University Public Service she couldn’t reach the fixture Ulysses. In the weeks before Center’s annual Into-the-Streets to replace it, recounts Shawn the event, volunteers from student outreach campaign. They Lindabury, an event organizer. across the county gathered at attended a group orientation, and “One of our volunteers swapped CCE-Tompkins, GIAC, Lehman received a script that guided them in a new CFL and brought back Alternative Community School, through the points they were to the old bulb for recycling.” New Roots Charter School, cover with each household. “Changing our light bulbs and Titus Towers to stuff 5,000 “Responses to the effort is the first step on the path to reusable shopping bags for have been positive,” reports energy savings,” Frongillo added. distribution. Youth from the Dominic Frongillo, New York “If all homes in Tompkins County Dryden High School Sustainability Energy $mart Communities were upgraded to Building Club and seniors from the Retired Coordinator with CCE-Tompkins. Performance Institute standards, Senior Volunteer Program “One woman called to thank us it would add $34.3 million (RSVP) also volunteered. Night- for the bags, saying she was in energy savings to the local shift employees at the Cargill unemployed and wanted more economy and create over 425 DeIcing Technologies salt plant information on the incentives jobs for four years.” Lighten Up in Lansing stuffed over 2,000 and rebates for making energy Tompkins! continued on p. 25 ccetompkins.org 3 New Finger Lakes Cheese Trail Joins Region’s Agri-Tourism Offerings

Wine and cheese is a A series of meetings in winter natural match, so a Finger Lakes 2010 resulted in plans for four Cheese Trail seemed like a Finger Lakes Cheese Trail Open promising way for local cheese Days, scheduled for May 29, producers to capitalize on the July 10, October 9 & 10, and region’s highly successful “wine December 11 of 2010. Ten trails” that draw many thousands producers committed to being of visitors each year. part of these new events. Several artisanal cheese Cooperative Extension, producers around Cayuga Lake Artisan Foods and the Schuyler tried out the trail idea with one- County Partnership for Economic and two-day open house events Development (SCOPED) coor- on Columbus Day weekends in dinated publicity for the events, 2008 and 2009. which included press releases, a These first “open days” printed rack card for distribu- proved to be very successful tion through regional tourism and the resulting media attention bureaus, and emails to various -- including newspaper stories lists of potential agro-tourists and in Syracuse, Rochester and local foods enthusiasts. One of as far away as Pittsburgh and the cheese producers created a Philadelphia -- yielded numerous Finger Lakes Cheese Trail page requests for information on on Facebook, and bright red Finger Lakes cheeses. and gold outdoor signs were de- Well over 200 visitors toured signed and printed for the farms 8 area farms during the October to use on days when they would 2009 open days, and made receive visitors. purchases of $100 to $1000 per farm (depending upon producer “It has awakened location). By January 2010, the consumer to regional cheese makers were enthusiastic about creating a what is available more formalized Finger Lakes in our areas as Cheese Trail to build upon the well as to great growing interest. The original “open days” tasting cheese.” events were the brainchild a producer of Nancy Richards of Finger Lakes Farmstead Cheese in Mecklenberg. Monika Roth, From the start, the 2010 South Central New York Ag- events were well-attended and riculture marketing specialist became progressively more with CCE-Tompkins, worked with successful as the year went on. Richards and the other partici- By the July event, farms were pating producers make the idea receiving between 40 and 200 a reality. people, with one producer who When the time came to was most off the beaten path develop a plan for a Finger Lakes going from 8 to 40 customers, a Cheese Trail, Roth convened a fivefold increase in traffic. Visitor broader group that included the numbers built to as many as 400 8 artisanal cheese makers who for the October weekend, with the hosted the original “open days”, one-day average being around other regional producers, and 125-150 per farm. Visitors from Scenes from Finger Lakes Dexter Creamery in King representatives of food-related Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New Ferry on the May 2010 “Open Day”. businesses and organizations. York continued on p. 17 4 Rural Youth Services Program Delivers Value to Communities

Making sure that ‘tweens grams may be offered during RYS staff meets regularly to and teens have access to qual- school breaks and can include share program ideas, and has ity youth programs can present a field trips to local sites of inter- become a network of peers who big challenge for rural towns with est, and overnights. All activities work with the same age groups. limited funds and infrastructure are designed to be fun, promote To stretch RYS resources, they to cover staff salaries, benefits, healthy choices, training and supervision. and to encourage Through a unique and cost ef- the development of fective partnership with 9 munici- positive social and palities and the Tompkins County life skills. Youth Services Department, Though the day- CCE-Tompkins is providing over to-day operations 2,000 rural young people each of RYS are handled year with a diverse assortment by CCE-Tompkins, of fun and skill-building activities, the individual pro- right in their own communities. grams are over- Since 1995, the Rural Youth seen by youth Services (RYS) program at commissions or CCE-Tompkins has offered after community coun- school and summer programs cils in Caroline, throughout the county, primarily Danby, Dryden, for middle-school aged youth.1 Enfield, Groton, Most RYS programs happen right Lansing, Newfield, after school, and many are held at and Trumansburg/ the school for easy access. Ac- Ulysses, and a tivities are open to all, and offer- Joint Youth Com- Youth in the O.U.R.S. Program display dreamcatchers they have made. O.U.R.S. ings change throughout the year, mission that serves is offered by RYS in partnership with the Cornell Public Service Center and pairs ranging from one-time events to the Town of Ithaca college-aged mentors with youth who live in rural trailer parks in Dryden and those that meet for 6-to-10 weeks and the Villages of Freeville. RYS educator Julie Newman, is at center right, in blue. or longer. Cayuga Heights and Lansing. regularly invite colleagues from This community-level involve- other CCE-Tompkins programs - 98% of youth ment ensures that all offerings in composting, food and nutrition, surveyed said their are in keeping with what each gardening and Primitive Pursuits town believes its youth need and -- to offer special activities at their RYS adult leader want. An annual Municipal Youth sites. was someone they Services legislative appropriation RYS programs are much more to the Tompkins County Youth than fun and games, however. could count on for Services Department is matched While the common focus of RYS advice and support by the rural communities, and is on building strong communities CCE-Tompkins is contracted by fostering life skills, the to hire, train and supervise the programs also “give back” to Activities are designed to appeal Youth Community Educators / their communities in tangible to young people and include top- Program Managers who plan and ways. Community service is ics such as cooking and fitness, deliver RYS programs in each lo- encouraged at all RYS sites. outdoor skills, rocketry, crafts, stilt cality. In Danby, for example, youth walking, sign language, photog- The Community Educators volunteer at the Danby Farm- raphy, hiking, geocaching, ani- are supervised by Linda Schoffel, ers’ Market, and have helped to mal studies, and more. Most are a veteran youth development develop trails at Jennings Pond. provided free of charge or with professional who for many Caroline youth distributed garden small fees requested from those years ran the Trumansburg After plants and information on how who are able to pay. Special pro- School Program (TASP). The to grow continued on p. 18

1. Exceptions are programs at Trumansburg’s High School, Groton Elementary, and the O.U.R.S. program in Dryden. For more information on the O.U.R.S.program and a project they undertook with the Robert S. Smith Award, see page 12. ccetompkins.org 5 SewGreen Complements CCE’s Youth & Environment Programs

In 2010, the grassroots eco-fashion design contests and residents. The teen program is community organization gallery shows starting 2006 as free. SewGreen affiliated with ReImagine Style, with Valorie After outgrowing several Cornell Cooperative Extension Rockney. In the course of these smaller spaces, SewGreen has of Tompkins County in a events, Skinner received many landed at 112 North Cayuga requests Street, about a half-block from for sewing the Ithaca Commons. The reuse lessons store and adjacent classroom and ways to together occupy about 2,000 incorporate square feet. reuse into “SewGreen has evolved fashion. in ways I never dreamed of,” “In the fall of says Skinner. In addition to 2007, I invited the original goals of reuse and a group of sewing education, SewGreen sustainability is a worksite for subsidized activists and workers, young and old, through needlecraft programs such as Experience enthusiasts to Works (for older, unemployed help decide workers), JobLink, the Youth how to meet Employment Service at the the demand Ithaca Youth Bureau, and CCE- for sewing Tompkins Rural Youth Services. and creative Troubled and at-risk youth are reuse,” says also placed at SewGreen through L-R: SewGreen teen apprentice Tanika Colemann helps younger student Annie Skinner. “We agencies such as The Learning O’Dowd, as Youth Program Director Autumn Newell looks on. Photo courtesy invented Web Outreach Program, or of Tompkins Weekly. SewGreen, they are informally referred by and our first caseworkers or families. collaborative relationship to action was to test the market with Autumn Newell recently advance SewGreen’s mission a rummage sale for fabric and joined SewGreen as the Youth and add to Extension’s family of yarn. The sale netted what to us Program Director, a position “SewGreen community programs. SewGreen was an astounding $1,000 and made possible by a Community promotes sustainability through we felt we had hit on something Development Block Grant promotes creative reuse of fabric, fiber, and the community wanted.” from the City of Ithaca. Newell fashion as well as responsible Using that seed money has owned her own earth- consumerism and a rediscovery and countless volunteer hours, friendly clothing business, and sustainability of self-reliant skills. SewGreen grew simultaneously is a professional designer who “SewGreen shares many in two programmatic areas: reuse attended the Fashion Institute through creative of Extension’s environment and landfill diversion, and of Technology in New York stewardship and youth develop- education. Its reuse program City. Newell’s position and the ment goals,” says Sharon grew from occasional rummage talents she brings to the job have reuse of fabric, Anderson, Environment Team sales to a volunteer-run reuse allowed SewGreen to expand Leader at CCE-Tompkins. store that diverts about six tons its apprenticeship and youth fiber and “It makes perfect sense that of material from the landfill employment programs. we should team up and work annually. The education program Donations of fabric, together.” serves people all ages and yarn, sewing notions, and fashion...” SewGreen was founded backgrounds with a variety of sewing machines help support by Wendy Skinner as a local sewing classes, and includes SewGreen’s activities. All of the response to evidence of teen apprenticeships and job sewing materials in the classroom environmental degradation and skills training. Affordable fees are are donated, and other donated poor labor practices within the charged for classes and summer materials are resold in the store textile and clothing industries. sewing camps, and scholarships to earn revenue to pay overhead, She initially organized annual are available to lower-income continued on p. 25 6 SewGreen Complements CCE’s CCE-Tompkins’ Role with Natural Youth & Environment Programs Gas Drilling in the Marcellus Shale

Whether it means col- program areas, as described laborating to present a public below. discussion on health effects of CCE-Tompkins’ Agriculture hydrofracking, broadcasting an program staff for many years overview of the legal issues that has presented informational surround gas leases, or taking workshops and answered a van of local decision makers questions about natural gas on a tour of Pennsylvania gas leasing for farmers and other rural drilling sites – CCE-Tompkins landowners. Extension educator is providing Tompkins County Debbie Teeter provides staff residents with reliable informa- support to Tompkins County’s Ag tion and resources they can use and Farmland Protection Board to make informed decisions on (AFPB) on a contract basis. what increased gas drilling in The AFPB and CCE-Tompkins our region may mean for them. proactively address local In the coming decades, agriculture issues, including gas natural gas drilling and drilling education. extraction may occur in A jointly-sponsored program Tompkins County and the on landowner coalitions in March surrounding areas with greater 2010 featured guest speaker Nick frequency than previously Schoonover, president of the has been experienced. In Tioga County Landowners Group. other states where natural Following his presentation, gas drilling has increased, local residents formed the there have been substantial Tompkins Landowners Coalition changes in population, land (www.tompkinsgaslease.org), use, environment, community, an independent group -- not and economy. The breadth of sponsored by CCE-Tompkins potential change is large and or the AFPB -- that will provide there is controversy about information, programs and how positive or negative the resources on this topic for other transformation may be. rural landowners. Cooperative Extension The Consumer Education – statewide and in our staff at CCE-Tompkins community -- serves varied coordinates free, monthly groups of constituents that “Consumer Issues” programs each seek reliable, research- which feature a presentation based information on natural by New York State Assistant gas exploration and drilling, Attorney General Mike Danaher, especially concerning the who then takes questions from the “hydrofracturing” extraction group, and consults individually process in the Marcellus Shale with consumers on unresolved geologic layer. issues. For the last several As is the goal with all CCE- years in February, Danaher’s Tompkins programs, efforts topic has been “Landowner that address natural gas topics Rights Regarding Gas and Oil focus on education, training, and Leases“. All of the “Consumer support so that county residents Issues” programs are taped and may consider both the potential rebroadcast on Mondays at 7 am, risks and benefits. Currently, 1 pm, and 7 pm on Public Access CCE-Tompkins addresses Channel 15, with the “Gas & Oil From top: “Health Risks of Hydrofracking” presentation; gas drilling issues through Leases” session running each natural gas drilling in PA; NYS Asst. District Attorney Mike its Agriculture, Consumer Monday in April. CCE-Tompkins’ Danaher at a Consumer Issues program; members of Education, and Environment Consumer continued on p. 17 TCCOG on PA trip. ccetompkins.org 7 Parents of Special Needs Children Support Group Forms in Groton

Parents of children with at CCE-Tompkins’ Groton’s Families! provided all childcare special needs face challenges Families! project and TCAction’s and some food, and all that can be both difficult and Primary School Family Support project partners collaborated isolating, such as navigating the Program Parent Group. Clark on promoting the events. TC maze of regulations that govern knew that -- with 18% of district Action served as the fiscal school agent, handling and disbursing children grant funds. receiving Since its first meeting in June Special 2009, approximately 90 people Education have attended POSNC monthly services and meetings, including a core group a 42% free/ of 10-to-25 regular participants. reduced Topics and guest speakers lunch rate change each month, and time -- Groton is allowed for a question-and- was home answer period, and for parents to to many interact, share skills and network families after each meeting. with limited Guest speakers have resources as included Groton Elementary well as many School psychologist Cindy children VanEtten; Jeff Boles, a peer with special advocate from the Finger needs. She Lakes Independence Center; believed social worker and parenting Heather Clark (left), parent founder of the Parents of Special Needs Children that a free educator Edna Brown who Support Group (POSNC) with Elizabeth Wolff of CCE-Tompkins’ Groton’s monthly spoke on siblings and autism; Families! program, which now supports the POSNC group. parent JoAnn Horton, Family Outreach support Worker with the Tompkins educational services, identifying group for Groton area families County Health Department unit appropriate resources, and would be welcomed by other for Children with Special Health advocating for their child’s parents like herself. Care Needs; Patty Tvaroha from educational success. Thanks to Clark enlisted Elizabeth the Advocacy Center discussing the efforts of one Groton mother, Wolff of Groton’s Families! and the increased risk for sexual a new support group was created Donna Veninsky of TC Action, as abuse that kids with special to help parents of special needs partners on a proposal to estab- needs face; and staff from the children connect with local lish a Parents of Special Needs Smith School at TST-BOCES who services, meet other parents who Children (POSNC) support spoke about program offerings. share their concerns, and learn group , and in 2008 they applied Additional programs were offered to be more effective advocates for a Robert S. Smith Award for in 2010 in collaboration with the for their children. Community Progress & Innova- Family Resource Network (www. Groton resident Heather tion (see p. 14). An award of familyrn.org). Clark had personal experience $1750 enabled Clark to get the During the summer of 2010, working with the local school group up and running, and cov- the POSNC Group met for a picnic district to ensure that her ered project costs from May 2009 at the Groton Memorial Park to children’s special education to May 2010. Clarke engaged a thank Heather for her work as needs were met. Clark had been guest speaker for each meeting, parent leader, and to celebrate active in her community on many scheduled the space (at TCA’s group’s one year anniversary. fronts, and was accustomed to Head Start site in Groton) and Parents at the picnic were asked sharing the useful resources coordinated refreshments and for their feedback on the POSNC she found with other parents child care services. Groton’s Group. continued on p. 25 1. A student partner is required on the team by the Robert Smith Awards; Cornell student Hailey Love was matched with the project as a student intern after funding was awarded. Paula Poteat, Family Advocate with the Primary School Family Support Program at TCAction also worked extensively on the POSNC project. 8 Second Graders Learn about Local Foods with “Feast For Health”

The current childhood Cooperative Extension supported obesity epidemic has led many a partnership between Cornell researchers to focus on sustainable Nutrition researcher Jennifer environmental change in schools Wilkins and CCE-Tompkins to and other settings where children expand and revise the curriculum, can be exposed to a healthier diet and to pilot and evaluate it in that includes more vegetables second through fourth grade and fruits. Concurrently, citizens classrooms at Caroline and Groton have learned that eating more Elementary Schools. The program locally grown foods can reduce the was renamed FEAST for Health2 environmental costs of our present and was revised and updated by food system, while supporting the CCE-Tompkins educator Carole local economy. Fisher. FEAST for Health is a In 2009, FEAST for Health comprehensive school-based was introduced to second-graders nutrition education program at Trumansburg Elementary originally developed at CCE- School by CCE-Tompkins Nutrition Tompkins to address these issues. Education staff with funding from The program works with school the Carman and Sandra Brink food service staff to improve Hill Fund of the Community the school food environment by Foundation of Tompkins County. including more locally grown plant An enthusiastic proponent was foods in their menus. Children Trumansburg’s School Food are introduced to a seasonal Service Director, Deborah Bush, vegetable in the classroom, and a Registered Dietitian with over learn to prepare a recipe featuring 30 years of experience in school it. The children then name the food service. Bush is strongly dish and promote it to the rest committed to serving healthy of the school. Finally, the dish is food to children, and has made introduced on the school lunch many steps in that direction in her menu and everyone is urged to district’s school food program. try it. In November 2009, CCE- The foundation for the FEAST Tompkins staff and Bush met for Health curriculum was laid in with the second grade teachers the mid-1990s through a Healthy to introduce them to the program, Heart/Health Promotion grant from review an introductory lesson, and the NYS Department of Health. set a schedule for implementing The grant enabled CCE-Tompkins the project. At a second session, and the Tompkins County Health the Winter Squash lesson was Department to develop and pilot a reviewed. In the classrooms, 4-unit nutrition education project teachers cut open several varieties called Field to Table1 which linked of squash, children removed classroom instruction with cafeteria the seeds for roasting, and the food service. From 2006-2008, cafeteria staff assisted by baking new federal funds from Cornell the squash continued on p. 19

1. The Field to Table curriculum was developed at CCE-Tompkins by Susan E. Travis, PhD, RD, CDN, now a faculty member of Cornell University’s Department of Nutritional Sciences; Cornell Extension Associate Tracy Farrell; Theresa Lyczko, TCHD Health Promotion Director; and Shirley Cuykendall, food service director at the Lansing Central School (now retired). 2. The acronym “FEAST” stands for Families, Education, Agriculture, and Schools Together. CCE-Tompkins educators, Myra McKinney, Karen Robinson, Carole Fisher and dietetic intern, Vanessa Hoffman, conducted the school pilots at Caroline and Groton. Helen Howard arranged for Feast to be delivered at Trumansburg Elementary by consumer and food safety Children sample “Mystery Delight” (squash apple educator Carole Fisher, nutrition educator Heather Bastian and CCE-Rural Youth Services crisp) at Trumansburg Elementary. program manager Carissa Mann Parlato. ccetompkins.org 9 Way2Go Helps Residents to “Go Green and $ave Green” on Travel

A new community resource and environmental pros and cons table and speaking with people at designed to help Tompkins of each. Visitors can find useful community events. County residents “take charge tips on topics such as how to set At workshops and events, of their transportation” was up a successful carpool, what to Somerfeldt is fond of describing launched by CCE-Tompkins in look for when buying a bicycle, how the existing alternatives to 2009. Named Way2Go, this and ways to get around for less. private, single-occupancy autos grant-funded program now To ensure that the Way2Go can save consumers substantial offers a comprehensive website, website, workshops and pro- amounts of money. One adult free consumer workshops, motional materials reflect and could, for a year, ride the bus, educational materials, and respond to community needs, commute by vanpool, drive trainings for an Ithaca employers and Carshare social service car for two Way2Go agency staff, Take Charge of Your Transportation! hours all with the aim a week, web pages on of helping local spend consumers $30 on make informed taxis per the “Ways to – and hopefully, month, sustainable -- buy $150 Get Around” transportation walking choices. shoes, Way2Go invest in Tompkins development $350 in a began in 2008, bicycle, County detail with the hiring and rent of Chrisophia Save money. Stress less. Go green. a car Somerfeldt as for a full how to access program man- Visit: way2goinfo.org week’s ager. Somer- vacation— each form of feldt compiled data on con- Somerfeldt recruited a diverse and still save over $4,000 sumer transportation habits Community Team to guide the over the average cost of owning and needs, local services, mon- program. Members include so- and using a car. travel and the ey-saving and safety tips, indi- cial service agency staff, people “While we hope that people vidual planning tools, and more. of color, differently-abled people, will make sustainable choices,” financial and These resources now can and others with an interest in Somerfeldt says, “Way2Go is be found on the Way2Go web- transportation issues. here to show how our transpor- site (at ccetompkins.org under The Team provided input and tation choices can save money, environmental “Community”, or at way2goinfo. feedback as Somerfeldt devel- support health and well-being, org). Sections of the website oped a “Go Green, $ave Green: lessen pollution and climate pros and cons target the needs and interests Getting Around For Less” work- change, and promote a strong of specific groups such as new- shop for consumers, and a user- and equitable community.” comers, parents, seniors, people friendly packet of transportation Another important goal for the of each. with disabilities, rural residents, information called the “Transport- Way2Go program is to encour- households with limited eco- folio” for human services profes- age communication between in- nomic resources, those who are sionals to use with their clients terested citizens, staffs of local interested in saving money, go- and program participants. businesses and organizations, ing ‘green,’ transportation equity, In the first year of the program, and transportation providers, and other priorities. Somerfeldt delivered workshops planner and advocates. Of general interest are pag- to 60 participants, distributed “Part of helping people es on the many “Ways to Get “Transportfolios” to 125 human to overcome transportation Around” in Tompkins County, service professionals, and barriers is to make those barriers which detail how to access each reached another 300 individuals more apparent to the service form of travel, and the financial by staffing a Way2Go display providers,” continued on p. 23 10 Primitive Pursuits Educators Co-Teach New Ithaca College Course

Two Primitive Pursuits edu- gram in the Town of Dryden by many hours of first-hand nature cators have taken their wilder- Dave Hall, a 4-H educator with study. “We leave the classroom ness expertise to another level CCE-Tompkins’ Rural Youth Ser- within 15 minutes on the first day – as co-instructors of the popular vices Program. Hall had studied with no intention of going back” Environmental Sentinels class at with some of the nation’s leading according to Jordan, “About 90% Ithaca College. A core course wilderness skills instructors, and of the time is spent outdoors.” within IC’s new Environmental wanted to share Studies department, the class his experiences is designed to help students de- with youth. Jor- velop a personal connection with dan and Drake the natural world - something came to the that the Primitive Pursuits staff is program along known for bringing about in their similar paths. day-to-day public programs. Drake s t u d i e d The Environmental Sentinels w i t h some of class was conceived, co-created, the same teach- and offered as a pilot in 2008 by ers as Hall, Jason Hamilton, then a faculty while Jordan member in Ithaca College’s biol- had spent many ogy department, along with Jed years travelling Jordan and Tim Drake, two of in wilderness three co-founders of the Primitive areas of the Pursuits 4-H program at CCE- U.S. As inter- Tompkins. Hamilton had encoun- est in the pro- tered Primitive Pursuits six years gram grew, the earlier when his son enrolled in three developed the program. Excited by the work and refined the Jed Jordan (left) and Tim Drake of Primitive Pursuits navigating in the National that he saw, Hamilton joined the popular outdoor Forest, 2007. Photo by Carolyn Wiley. adult apprenticeship and contin- classes that ued on as an adult volunteer with now reach more than 600 youth In addition to required readings, the program. and adults each year. students complete an ongoing A shared principle of both journal assignment that requires “What’s exciting Primitive Pursuits and the Envi- them to spend at least three for us is that ronmental Sentinels class is for hours each week in the forest bout 90% participants to learn how to use recording their observations, A we’re working their senses, identify what they which counts for 40% of their primarily with see and observe, and predict grade. “Sometimes they go of the class Environmental changes in the ecosystem. The into the woods at night, and course syllabus defines an “en- it’s initially really terrifying to time is spent Studies majors vironmental sentinel” as a citizen them,” Drake recounts. “You and member of the community, can see it in their journal who have a who will be able to notice when entries.” Students also must outdoors. commitment to changes start, understand what create resources such as leadership in is causing the changes, and can maps of plant communities or then participate in developing so- trails at a location that they this field,” lutions. Throughout, wilderness choose and observe over the Drake says. living skills are taught as a con- semester. As members of text for deeper connection. Drake “clans” into which they are describes the approach as, “Tak- grouped early in the semester, Primitive Pursuits first was ing ecology out of the text book students also make individual offered to the community-at- and going back into the forest to and group presentations to the large by Jordan and Drake in experience it.” class on what they’ve learned. 2001, several years after it was Requirements for the 4-credit Class projects change started as an afterschool pro- course are rigorous and involve with the continued on p. 21 ccetompkins.org 11 Spreading the Message of Energy Efficiency, One Home at a Time

Demonstrating to local house- tially could reduce local energy A total of 34 undergradu- holds the benefits of home consumption, keep more “energy ates from Cornell University weatherization -- with the idea dollars” in Tompkins County, and and Ithaca College took part in that they in turn would “spread support local businesses by en- the Energy Conservation Corps the word” -- was the focus of couraging more homeowners to in summer and fall 2009. The the 2009 Energy Conservation undertake home weatherization summer crew of 13 interns re- Corps, a grant-funded pilot proj- upgrades. searched home energy improve- ect at CCE-Tompkins that trained The idea for an Energy Conser- ments and designed the pilot vation Corps program, under the supervision arose from of Dominic Frongillo. conversa- With the help of local home tions be- performance contractors and tween Peter Mark Pierce (a Cornell Exten- Bardaglio, sion building science expert), head of the the interns devised a process for Tompkins conducting relatively quick and County simple energy tests that could Climate help homeowners identify the Protection highest priorities for weatheriza- Initiative (TC- tion upgrades. CPI) and Ken The process included a hom- Schlather, eowner interview, visual inspec- CCE- tion of the home and appliances, Tompkins’ a whole-house blower door test Executive for air infiltration, and a follow- Director. The Associ- The average New ation already Members of the 2009 Energy Conservation Corps pose with the CCE-Tompkins had created York household banner with CCE staff Dominic Frongillo (center front) and Shawn Lindabury a “Path to spends over (center rear). Energy Ef- $2,500 per year college students to perform free ficiency” web-site (at http:// energy tests on local homes. ccetompkins.org/energy/energy- on energy... and Home weatherization efforts efficiency-path) that outlines 20-60% of that can yield substantial savings. The steps to make a home more en- average New York household ergy efficient -- from no-cost amount can be spends over $2,600 per year on and do-it-yourself projects, to saved through energy for electricity, heat and those requiring a skilled con- hot water, and 20-60% of that tractor. Bardaglio and Schlather home energy amount (or up to $1,500 a year) thought that a streamlined ver- improvements. can be saved through home sion of an energy audit -- energy improvements. conducted by volunteers or To achieve these savings, interns -- could persuade up visit to review the results, however, homeowners must homeowners to improve the all offered free-of-charge to the know specifically what upgrades energy efficiency of their homes. homeowners.2 By August, the are needed. Finding an easy They also believed that partici- interns had performed 50 free and inexpensive way to identify pant word-of-mouth would en- energy tests on homes located 1 home “energy wasters” poten- courage others to do the same. throughout continued on p.22 1. Some earlier exploration of this idea was done in 2008 by Schlather and local home inspector Anne Korman, who together had photographed homes in Fall Creek with an infrared thermal imaging camera, to determine whether it could be an effective tool in a volunteer- based energy testing program. 2. Note that the resulting energy reports are for educational use and are not a Building Performance Institute (BPI) certified energy audit (as would be required for a renovation project to qualify for NYSERDA incentives). A full home energy audit assesses the home’s heating system, air infiltration, insulation (in floors, walls, ceiling and rim joists), utility consumption, hot water, appliances, windows and doors and lighting use and can cost $200 or more. 12 Safe Food Preservation Skills Taught in CCE-Tompkins Class

Tompkins County has Team, and have developed the experienced an upsurge of New York State Master Food interest in food preservation. In Preserver Manual which was January 2009, CCE-Tompkins used in the training. Twelve cosponsored a community people enrolled in the training, meeting -- with Sustainable including a nutrition educator Tompkins and IthaCan (a web- from CCE-Tompkins who wanted based social network for local to teach canning techniques to food preservers) -- to discuss her program participants, and a variety of food preservation several people with an interest in topics, including food storage, becoming Master Food Preserver and the possible need for a volunteers for CCE-Tompkins. shared community kitchen. The workshop was fast- Approximately 120 people paced and covered a lot attended the gathering. of information. It included With a long history of providing many small group, hands-on public workshops in home activities so participants could canning and drying according practice what they had learned. to USDA guidelines, the food During the first morning, the class preservation staff at CCE- learned about the economic and Tompkins was concerned that nutritional considerations of home any community-wide planning or preserved foods, studied the education efforts should use and science behind food preservation, share only safe, reliable, and up- and watched a demonstration of to-date information on home food canning basics and equipment. preservation methods. Although That afternoon, they learned many home canners have about high acid canning, and learned handed-down canning then rolled up their sleeves techniques that “have always to prepare and can hot pack worked”, following the current and raw pack tomatoes and safety guidelines will ensure that unseasoned tomato sauce using the foods preserved will always the boiling water bath canning be of high quality, and safe for method. They also learning your family to eat. about techniques for freezing as CCE-Tompkins food preserva- a food preservation method, and tion staff Ann Gifford and reviewed the day’s lessons. Carole Fisher next met with key On Day 2, the class was representatives of the community introduced to procedures for low- groups to explore possible acid canning, and then prepared collaborations during the coming and canned both carrots and food preservation season. A stewed tomatoes using a result of that meeting was a 3-day pressure canner. They learned Master Food Preserver training, about drying foods while waiting offered April 15-17 at the CCE- for their canned foods to finish Tompkins Education Center. processing, and learned how The class was instructed to unload the pressure canner by a team of two Extension before lunch. Food Preservation experts, Next covered were pickling Katherine Humphrey and techniques, and the group Judy Price, and assisted by prepared and canned hot chili Ann Gifford and Carole Fisher salsa, pickled green beans, from CCE-Tompkins. Humphrey and marinated peppers using a and Price make up the CCE boiling water bath. Finally, they Scenes from the Master Food Preservers Class in State Food Preservation Expert quickly continued on p. 23 April 2009. ccetompkins.org 13 Robert S. Smith Award Supports Civic Leadership Development

A vibrant new weekly market vegetables and fruit, and other in Southside, and an improved produce that is in high demand outdoor recreation area at a in the community. Freeville mobile home park are Vendors sell ethnically di- two of the inspiring community verse foods, clothing, and locally projects funded by The Robert produced goods. All profits from S. Smith Award for Community vendor fees and the produce Progress and Innovation, ad- stand are reinvested in the Mar- ministered since 2008 by CCE- ket as needed, and in Southside Tompkins. Community Center programs. The awards support partner- Music, crafts, entertainment and ships between grassroots com- munity leaders and area college The Awards students to jointly plan and carry out innovative projects that support partner- strengthen Tompkins County ships between communities. Awards can be as much as grassroots $3,000 for project expenses. community Proposals that involve people from local communities of color, leaders and area immigrant communities, and/or college students low-to moderate-income com- munities as team members and to jointly plan project leaders receive priority in and carry out the selection process. innovative projects Congo Square Market that strengthen Longtime Ithaca resident and social worker Jhakeem Haltom Tompkins County conceived the idea for the weekly communities. Congo Square Market after years of conversations with African- culturally relevant health/well- American community members. ness will be added as the Market Located in the small park next to takes on its mission for the com- the Southside Community Center, munity. the market provides a safe space The Robert S. Smith Award where people of color from the was one of several sources of community can have access to support that helped Haltom to affordable healthy foods, and establish the Congo Square positive social interaction. market. Haltom’s partner on Named for New Orleans’ fa- the proposal was Christian mous Congo Square, the market Duncan, a Cornell business honors African-American history. student. Nonprofit partners In the early 1800s, recently en- were the Multicultural Resource slaved Africans and others could Center, GIAC, the Southside gather in Congo Square on Sun- Community Center, and the days for music, dance and sto- Whole Community Project. Lo- ries. cal youth were hired through Ithaca’s Congo Square Mar- Youth Employment Services to ket opened on June 12, 2009 work in the market during its first and operates on Friday evenings summer. Haltom and Jemila Se- Scenes from the Hanshaw Village Mobile Home Park Beautification Project, recipient of a 2009 Robert S. from May to October. It features quiera of the Whole Community Smith Award. a weekly stall that sells local Project continued on p. 15 14 the Cornell University Public President) partnered with Sharon 2 Smith from p. 14 Service Center’s Y.O.U.R.S. Patte (a Hancock Village resident Program work with the youth and parent of an O.U.R.S through mentoring, games, Program student) and members serve as co-managers of the crafts, outdoor activities, of the O.U.R.S Teen Leadership weekly market. and field trips. Established in Council to apply for this award. 2005, the program now serves The project was overseen Mobile Home Park Beautification about 50 youth, ages 7-17, each by Julie continued on p. 22 In another funded project, year. Most young people at the Hancock participate in Village mobile home park in at least two Freeville saw a need for a “green programs space” where youth could play each week safely and adults could watch during the them while socializing with one school year another. The youth believed that as well as by beautifying their park, they during the also could increase its sense of summer community. and school The mobile home park is a site breaks. of the O.U.R.S.1 Program, a 4-H/ For this Rural Youth Services afterschool project, Alice and summer offering for youth Connors- who live in or near the Hancock Kellgren Village and Congers mobile (a Cornell home parks in Freeville. student and Each week, volunteers from Y.O.U.R.S

1. O.U.R.S. stands for Opportunity, Understanding, Respect, Success In addition to fresh vegetables and prepared foods, vendors at the new 2. Y.O.U.R.S. stands for Youth Outreach Undergraduates Reshaping Congo Square Market in Southside sell ethnically diverse clothing and crafts Success (photo courtesy of Jemila Sequeira).

About the Robert S. Smith Award The awards The Robert S. Smith Award for Community Progress and Innovation was endowed in 1994 by the Tompkins Trust Company in honor of the late Robert S. Smith, former bank chairman and W.I. target Myers Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Finance at Cornell. In 2008, CCE-Tompkins was chosen to administer the awards program. While CCE-Tompkins oversees the program, the Robert Smith grant “everyday” selection committee consists of representatives from the Tompkins Trust Company, Cornell Cooperative Extension-related faculty and staff from Cornell, and established leaders from the prioritized downtown communities. or “natural” The Natural Leaders Initiative (NLI), along with Cornell Work Study students, provide assistance and support to applicants, when needed, for writing proposals, matching student and community leaders who partners, and fine-tuning project ideas. Margo Hittleman, NLI Coordinator, says “The Robert Smith grant committee’s goal is to target these awards to “everyday” or “natural leaders” – members of the community who often have wonderful community-building ideas, passion and commitment, but who generally lack often lack access to other established funding sources. NLI is a collaborative project of CCE-Tompkins, GIAC, the Multicultural Resource Center and TCAction. access to Recognizing that many grassroots leaders do not have established relationships with college students, NLI and the Work Study students act as “brokers” to help community leaders with good ides other funding find and partner with students interested in helping develop those ideas into action projects. If needed, project teams can also get help linking with established community organizations already working in their areas of interest. sources. There are benefits even for projects that are not funded, says Ken Schlather, Executive Director of CCE-Tompkins. “The application process initiates student-community partnerships, and sometimes conversations with nonprofit community partners. Good ideas can result and we can help people to think about ways they might be implemented, even without the Smith funding. Our intention is that people also will learn from participating in the proposal process,” Schlather concludes. ccetompkins.org 15 Cornell “Greeks Go Green” With Help from CCE-Tompkins

Cornell’s “Greeks Go Green” practices could add up to big take back to their communities,” piloted a model composting environmental impacts. About Schlather said. and recycling program in three 30%, or 4000 Cornell undergrads Copeland’s summer work sorority and fraternity houses are involved in Greek life. In the plan included collaborating with as part of a longer-term effort to winter of 2009 an online survey Master Composter volunteers support a culture of sustainability of the 53 chapters with residen- Tom Shelley, Valerie Ober, and tial houses Kristen Vitro to create a ten- showed that over By initiating half of the composting respon- dents do practices in early not always 2010, Alpha Chi recycle the hundreds Omega expects to of empty save $64/month cans and bottles that and reduce their are left after trash pickups to parties, nor do they have two per week. an everyday recycling minute presentation that would program cover the basics of composting that mem- and steps needed to implement a bers use program in a chapter house. She Christina Copeland surveys kitchen disposal and sorting practices in Greek consistently. researched the available options residential housing as part of the “Greeks Go Green” waste assessment About half (on-site, at Cornell, or by contract project (photo provided). also report- with Cayuga Compost) and and waste reduction on the ed using disposable dishes the economics of choices that Cornell campus. Some of the the majority of the time. Clear- support waste reduction, such preliminary work for this pilot was ly, there was room for improve- as loan payback time for buying accomplished at CCE-Tompkins ment. reusable plates. Over half during the summer by Christina A grant from the Tompkins She also projected the Copeland, a Natural Resources County Solid Waste Manage- potential savings from fewer of the 53 major in Cornell’s College of ment Division (TCSWMD) and trash pickups when a composting Agriculture and Life Sciences some additional funds from program is added. While and a co-founder of Cornell’s Cornell University enabled CCE- reviewing her own sorority’s residential “Greeks Go Green” initiative. Tompkins to hire Copeland for six trash invoices, Copeland was Copeland had heard Ken weeks as a 2009 Summer Intern. surprised to learn that they were houses did Schlather, CCE-Tompkins’ Exec- She worked concurrently with paying over $300/month for utive Director, give a presentation CCE-Tompkins’Environmental three weekly trash pickups. By on local Extension programs at a Issues team and Master initiating composting practices not recycle University Neighborhood Coun- Composter volunteers, and in early 2010, Alpha Chi Omega cil meeting in March 2009 and with staff from Tompkins expects to save $64/month and empty cans contacted him afterwards about County Solid Waste, to design reduce their trash pickups to two ways that CCE might assist with the components of a fall waste per week. sustainability education among management education pilot, At least five of these com- and bottles Cornell’s Greek chapters. and to develop the accompany- post presentations were given at A member of the Alpha ing educational materials. different Greek chapters in Fall after parties. Chi Omega sorority, Copeland “This is a quintessential ex- 2009 by CCE-Tompkins’ Master knew that fraternities and so- ample of how Extension works Composters, who will continue rorities were an area where small with people to develop their ideas upon request to make presenta- changes in waste management and interests into a form they can tions and continued on p. 20 16 Chesapeake Energy drilling pad Gas, from p. 7 and speaking with the crew, the Cheese, from p. 4 Cornell “Greeks Go Green” group met with elected officials from Bradford County, the With Help from CCE-Tompkins HelpLine volunteers also receive Township of Wyalusing, and the City. New Jersey and Canada calls on gas leasing issues, and Borough of Troy who shared their were reported. refer callers to reliable, research- experiences. The additional traffic meant “We had a based information. In order to provide improved sales, with a majority Reducing the demand education on a broad range of of visitors buying cheese at each limo pull up for fossil fuels through energy topics, CCE-Tompkins works with stop. In addition, according conservation and efficiency is a diverse partners who represent to Roth, “Subsequent sales at key part of the strategy of the CCE- the various sides of this issue. farms have resulted from the with 8 people Tompkins Environment program CCE-Tompkins has or will co- events. Four producers indicated team. The Environment Program sponsor educational programs their on-farm sales have tripled who had been was created in 2008 by the with the AFPB, the New York as a result of the Finger Lakes association’s Board of Directors State Attorney General’s Office, Cheese Trail Open Days”. One in response to community Shaleshock, Sustainable producer who previously had no visiting the demand for more programs and Tompkins, Tompkins Landowner “open days” has since added information on green building and Coalition, and Tompkins County tasting room staff and public wineries and natural resource conservation – Soil and Water Conservation hours. including Marcellus Shale natural District, among others. At the end of 2010, the gas development. Each county’s Cooperative group met again to evaluate the cheese trail and Staff provides information Extension office is independent events and make plans for 2011. on the environmental risks, and seeks to serve the needs Two additional producers were they all said they protections and unknowns of the county in which it is invited to join the Finger Lakes related to drilling and disposal of located. CCE-Tompkins has Cheese Trail, while two other drilling wastes, and partners with an extensive system for getting farms dropped out as they felt had a blast...” other state and local Cooperative input from diverse interests in they could not handle the traffic. Extension, and with a wide variety the community. CCE-Tompkins Officers were elected, and the of local and regional groups is also part of a state- and group is working on bylaws and Rita to present public educational nation-wide system and does a budget. Each producer has SideHill Acres programs. work cooperatively with efforts committed to pay a membership Goat Dairy Environmental Program in other counties and at the state fee to support promotional efforts. Leader Sharon Anderson serves level. While we may provide Members of the Finger on two state-wide teams -- feedback or suggestions to Lakes Cheese Trail have been Cooperative Extension/Cornell regional and state efforts, we invited to take part in Keuka and Marcellus Shale Team and the have no control over them. The Cayuga Wine Trail events for CCE Energy Team - that identify website gasleasing.cce.cornell. Spring 2011, at which artisanal community needs; coordinate edu is hosted by the state-level of cheese producers will be paired educational programs; and Cornell Cooperative Extension. with wineries and will provide encourage faculty to address If you are interested in how samples and conduct sales. gaps in research. CCE-Tompkins sets policies and Finger Lakes Cheese Trail Anderson has developed program priorities please contact Open Days for 2011 will be: May a “library” of natural gas Sharon Anderson, Environment 28, July 9, October 8 & 9, and resources on the CCE-Tompkins Program Leader or Ken November 19. For information on website (http://ccetompkins.org/ Schlather, Executive Director. ☼ participating cheese producers, gaslibrary) that includes a large visit Finger Lakes Cheese Trail on selection of reports, PowerPoints, Facebook, or http://ccetompkins. webinars and videotaped public org/cheesetrail.☼ programs on gas drilling topics. In December 2010, CCE- Tompkins partnered with Penn State Cooperative Extension to take members of the Tompkins County Council of Government (TCCOG) on a day-long van trip to Bradford County, PA. After spending 2 hours at a Chesapeake Energy drilling pad and speaking with the crew, the ccetompkins.org 17 help with “odd jobs”, and have Rural Youth, from p. 5 been able to quickly identify and refer income-eligible youth for summer TANF jobs, Joblink, and them to Caroline Food Pantry local grant initiatives. participants, and re-established Equally important are the a composting system near the opportunities RYS gives young Center. Enfield youth helped people to develop a sense prepare for and run the Enfield of belonging, while connecting Fall Harvest Fest, learning life with a caring adult mentor. skills such as how to raise large Notices of upcoming programs tents, cooking, and appropriate are sent home with students, ways to interact with the commu- and the Youth Community nity while enjoying their volunteer Educators also spend time at work. Lansing youth host an an- the schools, get to know the nual fishing derby at Myers Park, youth, and are in a position and help with the Harbor Fest. to recruit them individually to These activities all provide programs. Many youth develop experience that can help kids friendships with the adult get their first jobs; other offerings educators and are drawn to try directly address job readiness. new things they might not have RYS programs at several sites train participants for potential Research on babysitting jobs. “Cool Careers”, adolescent offered during lunch at Dryden development Middle School, brought local professionals in to talk about their shows how jobs and describe what they did, important it is for academically and experientially, to get where they are today. teens to interact In “Get a Job!” - another with supportive Dryden program - youth identified careers of interest, learned how adults from outside to create a resume and fill out an the family. application form, and practiced interviewing skills. Although the 6th graders in this program were considered simply because they too young to be employed, they know, trust, and enjoy spending focused on finding volunteer time with that adult. These youth work that could help make them often become leaders and role job-ready. models in teaching skills to new Perhaps the most visible job participants. training and community service Research on adolescent opportunity has been staffing the development shows how im- CCE-Tompkins youth stands at portant it is for teens to interact the summer Farmers’ Markets in with supportive adults from Danby, Groton and Trumansburg. outside the family. Relationships Youth are recommended for with RYS staff - who are strong positions at the markets by the and positive non-parent role RYS Youth Community Educators models -- may well be the most who know their abilities, help critical contribution that RYS them apply and coach them on makes to county youth. In a necessary skills. And, because recent evaluation, 35% of youth RYS has established connections surveyed reported they did to youth throughout the county, not have this support before new job opportunities for youth entering the RYS program. At increasingly come their way; the program’s end, 98% of youth Community Educators often are reported that they could count on the Community Educator for Scenes from Rural Youth Services Programs from contacted by individuals and around Tompkins County. businesses looking for youth to continued next page 18 Rural Youth, from p. 18 advice and support. Many youth choose to join programs because the subjects interest them, or they know and enjoy the company of the adult educator. The Community Educators also make special efforts to include young people who aren’t involved in other school activities or sports, or who are referred by school staff, and invite them to join. “They may notice a young person who consistently sits alone at lunch, or who they know has moved around a lot or isn’t Guillermo Metz (center), Green Building and Renewable Energy Program part of an established group Coordinator at CCE-Tompkins, talks with a visitor at the Home Wood Heat at the school,” says Schoffel. Expo, held in October at Cayuga Nature Center. Visitors to the event could “Many times, this personal learn about buying and stacking firewood, best burn practices and proper invitation is what gets the youth maintenance of wood stoves, and the latest in high-efficiency technology. involved.” This creates balanced Tours were given of Cayuga Nature Center’s new high-efficiency wood chip- groups that bring together a fired boiler. diverse range of youth, providing them with opportunities to learn hung outside the building to help incorporating this subject matter from each other, appreciate generate excitement about the while meeting existing learning their differences, and build program and a FEAST for Health standards can present a challenge. new friendships and a sense of newsletter (customized for the FEAST for Health offers eight belonging. Trumansburg school by CCE- educational units, developed for Research also shows that Tompkins) was sent home with second through fourth grades, youth who have these opportu- students. It contained information which can be integrated into nities and have adult supports about the classroom activities, curriculum goals, including math, outside the family have better and provided the recipe used language arts, science, and social developmental outcomes. When in the classroom, along with studies. Classroom education these needs are met, they devel- additional activities or readings is reinforced when the recipes op characteristics (or life skills) about the food. The newsletter prepared in the classroom are that protect them against becom- aims to encourage parents to ask served as part of the school lunch ing involved in risky behaviors. questions about the program, and menu, and the pilot showed that “Adolescence is a time of also to try the recipe at home. new menu items are more readily change, and youth need to take Art teacher Katharine Sinko accepted when students have risks by trying new things,” con- had all the second graders make studied, prepared, and tasted the cludes Schoffel. “Through RYS squash hats which the children food already. programs, they can do this in a wore on the day that the recipe For more information about safe place with adult support.”☼ was served in the cafeteria. Many FEAST for Health, contact Jemila second graders chose the item on Sequeira, Whole Community the lunch line, and Food Service Project Coordinator at CCE- FEAST, from p. 9 Director Deb Bush encouraged Tompkins, at (607) 272-2292 x157 children to taste the item even if or [email protected]. ☼ they had not taken it on their trays. and seeds for tasting. Later each As a result, many children returned class made a Squash Apple Crisp to the serving line to request a full recipe, again with help from the helping. The entire cafeteria staff cafeteria staff. participated enthusiastically in the Second graders named the process. squash dish “Mystery Delight” Although most teachers and created posters to promote appreciate the importance of it, that were displayed on the including nutrition education hall walls. A FEAST banner was in the elementary curriculum, ccetompkins.org 19 Vitro recruited a “Greeks Go Green” committee of 24 mem- bers that had its first meeting in October 2009. The members divided into four project teams that focus on green purchasing, outreach, composting, and recy- cling. Each also is assigned to work with sustainability chairs at three chapters, so each house now has a contact to help them improve an existing recycling system or implement a new one, identify green solutions for their individual needs, and provide information on green purchasing and composting. Posters promoting home radon testing appeared on Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit “I would say that the pilot (TCAT) buses on a variety of different routes throughout the county in December 2009 and program of doing waste assess- January 2010. ments on Greek Houses was a success,” Copeland reflected. “Many of the houses know that Master Composter Kristen Vitro they could be doing things in a Greeks, from p. 16 (Cornell Class of ‘11 and incoming more sustainable manner, and president of the 2010 Cornell this program really gives them “Greeks Go Green” committee). the push they need to take ac- consult with Greek houses on Copeland and Kat McCarthy tion.” ways to set up or improve their completed two assessments in Thanks to Master Composter composting programs. September, and a third in De- volunteers Valerie Ober, Tom Concurrently, Copeland work- cember. Participating houses O’Connell, James Rounds-Jones, ed with TCSWMD to create the each received a personalized Tom Shelley, Sarita Upadhyay waste assessment and reduction waste report that included recom- and Kristen Vitro for their work portion of the pilot program. She mendations for establishing and on this project. Note: Greeks Go researched waste management strengthening a waste reduction Green is a sustainability initiative practices of other universities, program. Additional material was for fraternity men and sorority and reviewed the results of the developed by Copeland on how women to participate in on col- free TCSWMD ReBusiness to live sustainably in a house with lege campuses across the United Program waste assessment a large group of people, and on States. ☼ performed two years earlier at resources in Tompkins County CCE-Tompkins. Copeland that can help with that. then shadowed Kat McCarthy Adam Michaelides, Compost and Dan Carrion of TCSWMD Education Program Manager at on a real assessment of a local CCE-Tompkins, worked with Co- housing complex. She used that peland and the Master Composter experience to develop a step-by- volunteers to develop strategies step procedure for performing a for educating the Greeks and for waste assessment in a Greek making the project sustainable. house. Michaelides was familiar with A short application was sent fraternity life as a 1996 Cornell to the sustainability chairs of graduate and member of the Seal all Greek chapters at Cornell, & Serpent Society. “I knew the inviting them to participate in project could have a great poten- a pilot waste reduction project. tial impact,” Michaelides recalls, Two sororities and one fraternity “But I also was concerned with (Kappa Delta, Kappa Kappa helping Christina create a pro- Gamma, and Phi Kappa Tau) gram that would be sustainable, were selected, through discussion that wouldn’t simply end when its with Kat McCarthy of TCSWMD, student originators graduated.” Adam Michaelides and Sharon With sustainability of the Anderson of CCE-Tompkins, and program in mind, Copeland and 20 tal Sentinels Club” at Ithaca has evolved from a pilot Primitives, from p. 11 College. course with one section, to While there are no Environ- a core requirement for the mental Studies graduates yet Environmental Studies degree seasons and outdoor activities -- the first will come several program, with 3 sections can range from identifying years from now -- the connec- offered in December 2009. A natural fiber plants and tion with Ithaca College already fourth section is planned for making rope from them, to silk has benefitted the Primitive 2010. screening the class logo onto Pursuits program. “Some for- Primitive Pursuits offers a t-shirts using dye made from mer Environmental Sentinels wide variety of public courses black walnut hulls the students students now volunteer with year round, which are described have gathered. Finally, each the program, and five students online at ccetompkins.org/ student must pass a minimum primitive-pursuits. For those competency test in four areas: Since its inception who are interested, the 2009 tree identification, forest in 2008, the class reading list for Environmental forensics, track identification Sentinels follows. Required and interpretation, and has evolved from texts: Wessels, T. Reading ancestral fire skills. a pilot course the Forested Landscape; For Drake and Jordan, Gibbons, D. Stories in Tracks there are new challenges in- with one section, & Sign, Farrar, J.L. Trees of volved in working with a dif- to a core require- the Northern United States and Canada and Localbirds.com. ferent age group, as well as a ment for the slightly different set of duties: Local Tracks of N. America: their usual 4-H public pro- Environmental Quick Guide to Commonly Seen Animal Tracks & Scats.☼ grams don’t involve the grad- Studies degree ing that accompanies a college course, or reading and provid- program. ing feedback on 80 journals, for example. Both, however, from another core Environ- are enthusiastic. “What’s excit- mental Studies class fulfilled ing for us is that we’re working a required field placement as primarily with Environmental interns with Primitive Pursuits Studies majors who have a afterschool programs,” says commitment to leadership in Jordan. this field,” Drake says. “While Since its inception in it’s extremely satisfying to 2008, Environmental Sentinels work with younger groups and introduce them to the Primi- tive Pursuits skills and ideas, when you’re teaching at this level, you know they’ll take this unique approach and experi- ence with them into their lives and careers.“ Graduates from the public Primitive Pursuits 4-H program already have gone on to share their skills and experiences. One former participant, now enrolled at Syracuse Univer- sity, has started a “Primitive Pursuits Club” with 30 mem- bers. Another former partici- pant, now at Tufts University, heads an outdoor club and co- Nancy Munkenbeck (standing) of Ellis Hollow Farm responds to a question ordinates and leads wilderness from the audience at the “How to Buy Local Meat” class in May 2009. Other trips. According to Drake, IC panelists from left are: Richard Sabol of Sabol Farm, John Wertis of BWW students have been inspired to Farm, Tina MacCheyne of High Point Farm and Tom Quinn of Quinn’s Irish do the same, and several now Hill. Not shown: Greg Reynolds of Glen Wood Farm and Michael Glos of are planning an “Environmen- Kingbird Farm. ccetompkins.org 21 all of whom were thought likely Greenfeld, Lindsey Hardy, Dana Energy, from p. 12 either to share the information Hills, Alexis Izor, Shene James, they received on home energy Sofia Johnson, Matt Lowe, Sherry efficiency, or to contribute to local Martin, Ariane Moss, Clayton Tompkins County. policy development. Munnings, Angelica Romeo-Hall, In fall 2009, 21 new interns Renters were not targeted Nick Roscoe, Alex Rosenblatt, were enlisted to work part-time for the pilot in 2009, however a Andrea Sanders, Kimberley DC on the project. They met with landlord-tenant pilot is planned. Schroder, Roy Segura, Ariana participating homeowners to re- Developing a replicable, intern- Shapiro, Noah Slovin, Kimberly view the initial test results, and based program that can be used Standridge, Reed Steberger, to recommend energy conserva- in other communities, and provid- Alyssa Y. Tsuchiya, Ann tion measures. ing students with weatherization- Velazquez, Nancy Webster and During these follow-up related summer work experience Shay Yu. ☼ visits, interns also shared have been two early benefits of “path to energy efficiency” the project. information, a deck of cards In 2010, interns will reach out Smith from p. 15 showing financing options and to the broader public through NYSERDA incentives, and a list workshops, tabling, efficiency of area BPI certified contractors competitions, and other efforts. It Newman of the Rural Youth who could be hired to perform is hoped that leaders who have Services Program at CCE- energy upgrades3 (available been through the leadership Tompkins, with approval from online at: http://ccetompkins.org/ education program will help the the Hancock Village landlord. energy/home-energy-savings-0). project reach the broader pub- Project work was done by the Finally, interns talked with lic by publicizing and organizing applicants, 50 Cornell University participants about the economic educational programs over their student volunteers, 35 O.U.R.S development potential of large networks of community contacts. youth from Hancock Village and scale energy efficiency retrofit- Funds for the Energy Conser- Congers mobile home parks, and ting and how community leaders vation Corps project have been Hanshaw Village residents. can help develop the education, provided by Tompkins County Elements of the project design financing, and workforce devel- Climate Protection Initiative (TC- were conceived by the youth, opment programs needed to CPI), The Park Foundation and who surveyed residents to get dramatically increase residential CCE-Tompkins. Shawn Linda- their input and involvement. An energy efficiency throughout the bury was co-coordinator of the area near tenant mailboxes was county. Energy Corps interns during Fall redesigned, and on four week- To date, all 50 participating 2009. ends in May and June, youth and households have signed up for Special thanks to: The Park adult residents and volunteers the project’s benchmarking pro- Foundation, TCCPI, Mark built and installed two picnic ta- gram in which GECO (Green Pierce of Cornell University bles, two locust benches, a “bus Energy Compass) software de- Cooperative Extension; John & shelter” where residents can wait veloped by Performance Sys- Elisabeth Harrod of SnugPlanet; for a community van, a tire swing tems Development of Ithaca will Paul Myers of Upstate Energy and an 8’ x 15’ geo dome climber be used to compare their home’s Solutions; Conrad Metcalfe, suitable for youth of all ages. energy use to that of similar Rich Andrulis and Alywn John The park landlord provided ice homes. In a year’s time, energy of Performance Systems cream and new swing sets on the bills for each participating house- Development; Stacey Murphy project’s first day, and residents hold will be compared to see if & Jaime Hazard of Tompkins of the park celebrated with a pot- energy usage has decreased Community Action; Ian Shapiro luck dinner and barbeque funded There were no income require- of Taitem Engineering, and by the grant when the redesign ments for households to enroll in Anne Korman of Every Square was completed. the project. Participants were Inch Home Inspections, LLC; “I’m always impressed by identified for this Leadership Interns: Josh Betances, Dan the passion, commitment and Education Program by Schlather Bogan, Alexandra Bond, Jason ideas of the many ‘everyday’ and Frongillo with an eye toward Button, Naomi Childs, Rachel leaders throughout Tompkins including local government Cluett,Keegan Ebbets, Justin County,” said Ken Schlather, representatives and officials, Finkle, Tristan Fowler, Jake CCE-Tompkins Executive Direc- and informal community leaders, Friedman, Kevin Gill, Bari tor. “While we could only provide monetary grants to some, we will 3. The Building Performance Institute (BPI) establishes the standards for the building performance contracting industry, providing an integrated certification, accreditation, and look for other ways to help all quality assurance program. In order to qualify for NYSERDA incentives, homeowners must interested applicants turn their contract with BPI contractors. ideas into action.” ☼ 22 The Way2Go website already Preserve, from p. 13 Way2Go, from p. 10 offers pages on commuting op- tions, employer opportunities, and commuter tax incentives. reviewed other preservation says Somerfeldt. To Way2Go is funded by a Job methods such as preserving this end, she welcomes Access and Reverse Commute garlic in oil, making flavored comments, suggestions (JARC) grant from the Federal vinegars, curing, fruit cellaring, and even complaints about Our transportation and techniques for preserving routes, schedules and other without using salt and sugar. transportation issues at her choices can save Day 3 began with a lecture workshops, and the Way2Go money, support on jams and jellies, followed website is designed to allow by hands-on preparation of users to submit feedback. health and freezer-jam, and boiling water General feedback thus far has well-being, lessen concerned the challenges of rural bath canning of pectin-added pollution and jam, low-sugar jam, sugar-free households with limited resources jam, and artificially sweetened to meet their transportation climate change, needs, the lack of familiarity many jam. That afternoon, the class and promote took the Master Food Preserver consumers have with Ithaca examination, and received Carshare, vanpooling, ridesharing a strong and their Master Food Preserver strategies, and questions about equitable certificates documenting class ways to overcome barriers to participation and passing of the bicycling or riding the bus. community. exam. Those wishing to become “TCAT and other service pro- certified Master Food Preservers viders are very interested in hear- Transit Administration (FTA) ad- have to complete specific further ing from the public and in making ministered locally by the Tompkins training activities under the their services more responsive to County Department of Social direction of local CCE staff and community needs,” Somerfeldt Services. Employers, Human Re- take another exam. It usually says. sources professionals, and non- takes another food preservation In 2010, Way2Go will begin to profit agency staff who would like season to earn certification. target professional and employer to schedule a meeting or work- audiences with information on the shop, may contact Chrisophia benefits of sustainable transpor- Somerfeldt at (607) 272-2292 or “I had expected to tation to an employee workforce. [email protected].☼ learn the science behind what I was already doing, and I did. But I learned a whole lot more that will change the way I do food preservation.” 2009 Class Participant

Evaluations of the class were enthusiastic and CCE-Tompkins hopes to hold another Master Food Preserver Training course in the spring of 2011. Please Beekeeper Mike Griggs gives visitors a tour of White Dog Apiary during the check our Calendar of Events 2009 Farm Trail Open House. The event was held on Saturday and Sunday, in early spring for details and August 1 & 2, with half the farms open each day. Participating farms included registration information. ☼ Cayuga Pure Organics/Earthly Mirth Farm, Farmer’s Choice Blueberries, Heaven Llama Farm, Lew-Lin Farm, Littletree Orchards, Locust Woods Blueberries, Plantasia Nursery, Quinn’s Irish Hill Farm, Settlement Stables, Three Sisters Farm (out of business) & White Dog Apiary. ccetompkins.org 23 Ithaca Children’s Garden YHAP Program industry. This program is well garden replanting. known in the Ithaca community In addition to these site devel- for providing high quality experi- opment projects, the apprentices ential learning and employment also piloted an ICG farm stand opportunities to underserved and developed farm entrepre- youth during the summer. Most neurship skills. They spent one participants are 14 and 15 year day on The Ithaca Commons with olds seeking first-time work ex- the Community Beautification perience. Coordinator and mulched planter In 2009, the program em- boxes throughout the area. Fif- ployed 13 youth. Their wages teen community members shared were funded by a grant from the their expertise by introducing gar- Dryden Youth Commission and a den-related topics and careers in partnership with the Ithaca Youth the green industry. Bureau’s Youth Employment Ser- This year, the YHAP also Participants in the Youth Horticultural Apprentice Program at ICG vice (YES). welcomed weekly visits from a during summer 2009. The YHAP apprentices per- CCE-Tompkins Farmers’ Market formed daily garden maintenance Program representative who pro- The Youth Horticulture Appren- and worked on the following proj- vided lessons on nutrition, local tice Program (YHAP) at Ithaca ects: design and installation of foods and produce identification. Children’s Garden is a six-week the Bird Habitat Garden and kid- YHAP also was highlighted on youth development and workforce sized bird’s nest; construction of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s preparation program that teaches gates, pergola and deer fencing Celebrate Urban Birds Program job skills, fosters personal growth, in the Edible Garden; renova- Partners’ webpage.☼ and introduces youth to career tion of 4 bench swings; entryway opportunities in the horticulture beautification, seed starting and

Multicultural Resource Center (MRC)

Center in Ithaca NY. MRC offers ing women and their relation- a variety of programs and cultural ships, The Diversity Roundtable, celebrations throughout the year, and others. Community partners diversity workshops and train- for these events included Cornell ings, and a lending library with University, Ithaca College, Great- resources on undoing racism and er Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC), diversity education. Cornell Cooperative Extension In the area of diversity educa- of Tompkins County, Tompkins tion, MRC served 987 people in County Public Library, City of 2009. These included 678 adults, Ithaca, the MLK Community Build, and 309 teens and youth at area and others. schools, community centers and MRC’s Talking Circles on Race workplaces. and Racism enrolled 167 people MRC collaborates with other in 2009; 40 people attended an local groups and institutions to of- Interfaith Talking Circle; 35 people fer the community special events attended a Talking Circle Brunch; Members of the Community Unity Music Education Program entertain that enhance local knowledge and 38 people attended Talking guests at the 2009 Sister-Friends Luncheon. and appreciation of cultural and Circle Think Tanks. The Multicultural Resource racial diversity. Events in 2009 To learn more about any of Center (MRC) started in 1987 and reached 1,526 people and in- these programs, contact MRC is a small, grassroots 501(c)(3) cluded: The Martin Luther King, at (607) 272-2292 or visit http:// non-profit organization housed Jr. Day of Celebration, the annual multicultural-resource .org/ ☼ at the CCE-Tompkins Education Sister Friends luncheon celebrat-

24 24 SewGreen from p. 6 and utilities. The next step for SewGreen is to spread the word to other communities on how to start similar programs. “All it takes to get started is a handful of dedicated volunteers and a cheap space,” says Skinner. “The rest of it will come.” SewGreen’s growth has been augmented by grants from The Park Foundation, the Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency, the Legacy Foundation, the Social Services League, Tompkins County Solid Waste Management Student volunteers gather to stuff CFL bulbs and materials on home energy Division, and others. The new efficiency into reusable grocery bags for delivery to 5,000 homes throughout relationship with CCE-Tompkins Tompkins County in Upstate New York’s largest door-to-door energy is expected to bring further efficiency outreach effort. growth, collaborations, and stability. For more information Depot, Wegman’s Markets, about SewGreen, visit www. sew- Lighten Up from p. 3 Ithaca Agway, 84 Lumber, green.org.Contributed by Wendy Baker-Miller Lumber, Eagle Skinner ☼ Envelope, Builder’s Best- was inspired by Lighten Up Cortland, Snug Planet, Sunny Caroline, a 2008 outreach effort Brook Builders, HALCO and (with which Frongillo also was Tompkins Community Action. POSNC from p. 8 involved) that delivered CFLs to Refreshments for volunteers every Town of Caroline home, were provided by: Cornell saving residents a total of Catering, Rogue’s Harbor, F&T Many shared that the thing that $70,000 in energy costs. Distributors, Cornell Orchards, they liked best was the extra In addition, Lighten Up Tops, P&C, Ludgate’s Farm support the group provided. One Tompkins! supports Tompkins Market, Regional Access, mother noted, “I learned things, County’s policies on energy- GreenStar Cooperative Market, but the most important thing was reduction; in 2008, the County and Ithaca Bakery. Special getting to talk to other parents Legislature pledged to reduce thanks to the Cornell Public and learning that they are going 80% greenhouse gas emissions Service Center, Tompkins through the same things I am.” by 2050. If all 5,000 households Weekly and Area Congregations Another parent shared, “I like targeted in the Lighten Up Together for their support. knowing that there are resources Tompkins! effort install their Credit for coordinating the out there that can help.” CFLs, $278,000 will be saved -- project goes to Anne Rhodes of Clark served as parent and 3.46 million pounds of carbon Freeville, a 2010-11 Cornell Civic leader of the POSNC group dioxide emissions avoided -- over Leaders Fellow and member of until August 2010, when the the life of the bulb. the Dryden Solutions Project; increasing demands of her work Home owners and renters, and to CCE-Tompkins staff and family required more of businesses and organizations members Dominic Frongillo, her time, however she attends are invited to get on the path to Shawn Lindabury, and Mike monthly meetings whenever energy savings. No-cost and low- Koplinka-Loehr.☼ she can. Responsibility cost steps to take to reduce your for coordinating the POSNC energy consumption can be found Group has been taken on by online at http://ccetompkins.org/ Groton’s Families!, a project of energypath. CCE-Tompkins that is funded Educational materials through 2011 by a grant from and raffles prizes for Lighten the NYS Children & Family Up, Tompkins! were donated Trust Fund. ☼ or provided at-cost by Home ccetompkins.org 25 Thanks to Our Donors!Gifts 1/1/09-12/31/10 Tribute Gifts Brian Chabot & Kathleen Siri Jones Alice Saltonstall Rasmussen Dr. & Mrs. Francis Kallfelz Renee Baker Sandsted Richard & Joyce Church Mary M. Kelsey Marcy Schaeffer In Honor Of: Charlotte & Ronnie Coffman Maura Kennedy-Smith Dennis Scheck Christopher Hubbell Mary Ann & Tim Colbert Irene Kiely John Schenck Helen Howard Tom Cole & Meg Wahlig-Cole Travis Knapp Bob Schindelbeck Marie Layer Patricia Conklin Mr. & Mrs. Robert Kozlowski Ken Schlather & Donna Ramil Darlene Moody Richard Coogan Rachel Kutcher Ray & Kathy Schlather Cindy Noble Edwin A. Cowen, III Meredith Hill Kwiatkowski Charles Schlough Barbara Stewart Franklin A. Crawford Gregory Lawrence Laurie Schutt Lorraine Cummings Jeanne Leccese Debra Steele Schwab In Memory Of: Pat Curran Ann Levatich Rebecca Schwed David & Rosemary Abbott Carolann Darling Stephanie Levy Tim Setter C. Biesdorf Everett & Meredith Davis Jim & Mary Linton Cynthia Seymour Elma Canfield Beverly Dawson Frances Littin & Chuck Tauck Elan Shapiro Barbara Hatfield David DeLong Beverly E. Livesay Bonita R. Shelford Jennifer Guyer Theodore & Josephine Denmark Bruce & Bunny Lloyd Sloan Sheridan-Thomas Fred Morris Roy & Fran Dexheimer Barbara Logan Duane R. Shoen Peter M. Rinaldo David Dier Tamara Loomis Michael & Karen Shuler Patricia Ziegler Margaret Dieter Jacqueline Lopez & Craig Higgins Arthur & Charlotte Shull Judy & Jerry Dietz David C. Ludington Rachel J. Siegel Thomas & Barbara Dimock Lark Carlyle Ludlow Karen Sloan William Dress Gwyneth Lymberis Tami Snyder Individual Donors Dirk Dugan Steve & Lois Maki Mark & Nancy Sorrells Bruce Abbott Richard & Sharon Durfee Mary Maleta Ron & Ivy Space Barry & Molly Adams Tim & Susan Durnford Timothy E. Martinson Tatiana L. Stanton Leslie Adelson Richard Durst Ann C. Mathews Doug & Donna Stauffer Suzanne Aigen Jennifer Edmondson Saoirse McClory Evelyn S. Stevens Palmer Agnew Herb Engman Mary McCulloch McGinnis Jill Stilwell Lee & Irene Alexander Milton & Janice Esman Erin E. McKinley Nicole Stumpf Phyllis L. Allen David & Grace Evans Heike Michelsen Lewis & Linda Stuttle Dorothy B. Anderson Mary Faber Dolina Millar Lisa Stuttle ANONYMOUS – 5 gifts Betty Fedorka Kenneth & Barbara Miller Edward & Sandra Swayze Wendy & Chip Aquadro Martha Ferger Thomas & Cindy Miller Robert Talda & Jeanne Fred & Irene Asay Elizabeth Fisher-York Charles & Carol Mohler Kisacky Ethan Ash Theresa Flacco Hilda Moleski Alan & Debbie Teeter Noreen B. Atkins Barbara Johnson Foote Andrea Mooney Bud & Priscilla Tennant Allen & Bonnie Baker Ben & Carolyn Franklin Larry & Denise Moore Jill Tibbett JoAnne Baldini Gil & Ardyth Gillespie Nancy Moore Jennifer Tiffany Isaac G. Bampoe Mary Gloster Richard & Kay Moore Megan E. Tifft Donald L. Barber, Jr. Kurt & Sorel Gottfried Elizabeth Mount Leonard & Janice Topoleski Joan Barber Brad & Mary Grainger Jane Mt. Pleasant & Gregg & Sue Travis Priscilla Barber Robert & Eileen Gravani Darol Chamberlain Sharon Travis William E. 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Bishop Charles & Barbara Hatfield Nancy Potter Michal Weiss Carol Bobrich Joyce & David Heck Marsha A. Powell Kristopher Welfel Elizabeth Bixler W. Riley Heminway, Jr. Marvin & Allison Pritts Peter & Margaret Werner Kerry Boisvert Mr. & Mrs. Todd Henderson Frank Proto Tracey White Harriett Brittain Nancy & Jim Henion Susan Quick William & Olivia White George & JoAnn Broadwell Mike Herbster Katie Quinn-Jacobs Beth L.O. Wilcox Mrs. Urie Bronfenbrenner Mary Lee Herbster Suzanne Raupp Brigitte Wilkin Marjory Brooks David C. Hessler Elizabeth Reed Patricia Williams Elizabeth A. Brown Craig Higgins Beth Reynolds Sandy Wold Janice Brown Tom Hirasuna & Jean Hunter Elsie M. Reynolds Sarah Wraight Charlotte Bruce Mayfred S. Hirshfeld Cindy & William Rich Steve & Sandy Wraight Joan Jacobs Brumberg Eva Hoffmann Cheryl Rigas Stephen Yale-Loehr Tammy & Dvaid Buck Roald Hoffmann Dorothy W. Rinaldo Bettie Lee Yerka Ken Burr Jessica Houle Christina Rivers Mark & Ingrid Zabel Jim & Terry Byrnes Mark Iacovelli Cynthia-Anne Robinson Marjorie & Milton Zaitlin Ted Canfield Alicia Irwin Richard Robinson & Jerome Ziegler Donald R. Carl Shirley Jalso Catheryn Obern-Robinson Daniel Carpenter Barbara Jastran Elizabeth Rowley Evan & Brenda Carpenter Joan Jedele Mrs. John W. Rudan Gabriel & Penelope Carpenter Dawn Jewell Stephen & Susan Ruoff 26 Corporate/ Foundation Donors

4-H Clubs Acorn Designs Ithaca Agway & Feed Store Arleo Eye Institute Atwater Vineyards Audrey Edelman Associates Autumn’s Harvest Farm Baker’s Acres Barton Valley Farms Beck Farms, L.P. Bed, Bath & Beyond Ben & Jerry Foundation Best Buy Children’s Foundation Tag Team Awards Bet the Farm Winery Billsboro Winery Binghamton Mets Baseball Club Birdsall Beef The Boarding Barn BorgWarner Morse TEC Builder’s Best Do-It Center Buzz Drive-Thru Coffee Carey Farms Cargill Deicing Technology Cayuga Landscape Company Cayuga Lumber Cayuga Radio Group Cayuga Ski & Cyclery Donations from friends and family in memory of Patricia Ziegler, a long-time Master Gardener volunteer Cazenovia Equipment Company and 2007 Friend of Extension award recipient, funded the creation of the Patricia Ziegler Memorial CFCU Community Credit Union Garden at the CCE-Tompkins Education Center (above) CNY Hot Tubs The Community Foundation The Hangar Theatre Moosewood Restaurant Specialty Trophy of Tompkins County Hardie Farms Museum of the Earth/PRI Squeaky Clean Car Wash Cornell Orchards Harris Seeds New Visions Health Sciences Sustainable Tompkins The Cornell Plantations Martin F. Hatch Fund The Nines Sweet Land Farm Cornell Public Service Center Hazelnut Kitchen NHP Foundation Taste of Thai Express Cornell University Center for Heirloom Seeds Nistock Farm Taverna Banfi’/ Statler Hotel Transformative Action Hewitt Brothers, Inc. NYS 4-H Foundation, Inc TidBITS Publishing Cornell University Dining The History Center in Tompkins NYSERDA Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund Cornell University Farm Services County Omni New York Tompkins County Action The Corning Museum of Glass Home Depot Ort Faamily Farm Tompkins County Area Transit Cortland Bulk Milk Producers The Helen Thomas Howland The Outreach Center Tompkins County Climate CSP Management Foundation P&C Foods Protection Initiative Dairylea Cooperative Human Services Coalition Park Foundation Inc Tompkins County Farm Bureau Damiani Wine Cellars The Inn on Columbia Parkside Vista, LLC Tompkins County Friends of Nelson B. Delavan Foundation Integrative Massage Therapy Peworchik & Associates, CPAs the Library Jerry Dell Farm Ithaca Bakery The Piggery Tompkins County Quilters Guild Diane’s Downtown Auto Ithaca Beer Company Pioneer Hi-Bred International Tompkins County Soil & Dottie’s Ice Cream Shop Ithaca Board of Realtors Plenty of Posies Water Conservation District Doug’s Fish Fry Ithaca Farmers’ Market Purity Ice Cream Tompkins County Solid Waste Dryden Grange Ithaca Materials Research & Testing Quinn’s Irish Hill Farm Management Dryden Youth Opportunity Fund INHS Ramada Inn T.S.T. BOCES Eagle Envelope Ithaca Public Education Initiative Razorback BBQ Tompkins Trust Company Early Morning Organic Farm Jillian’s Drawers Reed’s Seeds Tops Friendly Market East Hill Car Wash Joch & Kirby Regional Access Tractor Supply Company Eastern Mountain Sports Juniper Hill Bed & Breakfast Remembrance Farm Triad Foundation Empire Livestock Marketing Just A Taste Renaissance Nutrition Trumansburg Rotary Club Ever Green Farm K-Mart Rocky Top Farm United Way of Tompkins County F&T Distributing Company Kestrel Perch Berries Rogue’s Harbor Waid’s Apiaries Families Together in NY State Kiwanis Club of Ithaca, Inc. Rotary Club of Ithaca Wal-Mart Fessenden Dairy, LLC La Tourelle Resort & Spa Sabol Farm Wegman’s Markets Finger Lakes Culinary Bounty Peg O’Neill Kimball Realtors Satori Day Spa West Haven Farm The First National Bank of Groton Kingbird Farm The Sciencenter Wideawake Dairy First Pioneer Farm Credit Kiwanis Club of Ithaca Serendipity Catering Charles O. Wood, II & Friendly’s Restaurants Lakewatch Inn The Service League Mariam M. Wood Foundation Frito-Lay The Legacy Foundation Serviente Glass Studios Funding Factory of Tompkins County Share Our Strength Note: this list does not reflect donations Funtronics Littletree Orchards Silk Oak to the Ithaca Children’s Garden or the Genex/CRI Cooperative Ludgate Farms Simply Red Bistro Multicultural Resource Center which GIAC M&T Bank Snow Top Farm of Danby are independent 501(c)(3) organizations Gimme! Coffee Maguire Automotive Snug Planet that operate under the CCE-Tompkins umbrella and maintain separate financial Greenstar Cooperative Market Mansour Jewelers Social Service League records. Groton Fitness Center Maxie’s Supper Club Southern Tier Veterinary Halco Millbrook Farm Medicine Association ccetompkins.org 27 Tompkins County Appropriation Leveraged the Following Support in 2010

Donations & Fees County Appropriation Cooperative Extension uses its unique partnership 8.44% 13.79% State & Federal with federal, state, and local governments, adding Appropriations volunteer involvement, fund raising and in-kind 3.19% contributions to bring an 12-fold return in educational resources for each Tompkins County tax dollar NYS Fringe received. Benefits, 21.46% Direct Support Ratio 1 : 7.3 Other Contracts County/Federal/State County Contracts & Grants 39.67% Pass Through 5.5% 7.90% County Appropriation $698,894 State and Federal Appropriations 161,640 Fringe Benefits, NYS 1,087,154 5,067016 County Contracts 400,662 County Fed./State Pass Through 281,284 Other Contracts/Grants 2,009,945 Donations & Fees 427,437 698,894 Total $5,067,016

Donations County State & Federal Cornell & Federal & Fees Appropriation Appropriations In-Kind & Direct Support Resources, 24.14% 5.20% 8.5% 1.97% Ratio 1 : 11.8 NYS Fringe Benefits, County Appropriation $698,894 13.23% State and Federal Appropriations 161,640 Fringe Benefits, NYS 1,087,154 Contracts 2,691,890 Contracts Volunteer Efforts 1,168,457 32.75% Cornell & Federal Resources 1,984,464 Donations & Fees 427,437 Total $8,219,937 Vounteer Efforts 14.21% 8,219,937

698,894

2010 Expenses by Type 2010 Employees (FTEs) by Funding Source

Programming Expenses Personnel Costs Core Funded Positions $1,258,397 $2,527,513 15 32% 63%

Building & Property Expenses $204,939 5% County Contracts All Other Contracts Pass 11 47.5 Through Contracts 6.5