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Field Note

Gretchen Wittmeyer ’24 explores CCE through CALS summer internship
Gretchen Wittmeyer, Cornell CALS agricultural science major ‘24, recently served as a Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) intern, learning about CCE and conducting soil research. Read on to learn about Wittmeyer’s internship experience. What led...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture Sciences Major
  • Animal Science
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CCE Broome commercial kitchen helps local chefs share the sweetness
Chef Chantay Skrine is dicing onions for her collard greens. Skrine, owner of Sweetay’s LLC in Binghamton, N.Y., is at work in a shared commercial kitchen on the campus of Cornell Cooperative Extension Broome County. The past two years have been...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Food
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News

Broome County chefs flavor CCE Women of Food event

Cornell Cooperative Extension Broome County’s inaugural “Women of Food” event featured local chefs preparing their signature plates and telling personal stories about the foods and relationships that launched their culinary journeys.

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Food
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PRO-DAIRY Agriservice Award
Sunnyside Farms, Scipio Center, and John Lehr, Farm Credit East, received the 2023 PRO-DAIRY Agriservice Award presented by NYS Agriculture Commissioner Richard Ball and Cornell CALS PRO-DAIRY Director Dr. Thomas Overton during the Dairy Day...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Dairy
  • PRO-DAIRY
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News

In Amish-Chinese partnership, shiitake mushrooms are the main ingredient

With Cornell's help, an Amish farmer grows shiitake mushrooms and solves his financial woes, and an entrepreneur and a chef, both from China, use the mushrooms for a sauce that is now on the market.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Food Venture Center

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How Each of Us Can Prepare for the Next Pandemic

Cornell Cooperative Extension Assistant Director Keith Tidball co-authored an article for Scientific American on Cooperative Extension's long history of teaching readiness and survival skills--and how with more funding they could help communities prepare for future outbreaks.

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