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Explore local food purchasing options with a local food home
delivery program, farmers’ markets, community supported
agriculture, buying clubs and more.
Local Food Home Delivery with Central NY Bounty,
Phillip Metzger, RC&D Coordinator USDA – Natural
Resources Conservation Service / Central NY RC&D
Farmers’ Markets:
Karma Glos, Kingbird Farm, Berkshire, NY
CSA’s – Community Supported
Agriculture: Lisa Bloodnick, Bloodnick
Family Farms, Apalachin, NY
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Gardening in Your Back Yard – Getting Started:
Dennis Lockard, Master Gardener, Cornell Cooperative
Extension, Steuben County
Starting a Community Garden:
Stacie Edick, Community Gardens Project Coordinator Cornell
Cooperative Extension of Chenango County
A Tree
Grows in Binghamton: Of
Gardens, Grocery Co-ops and Galvanizing Community Project
David Currie, Binghamton Regional Sustainability
Coalition & Scott Barvainis,
Farm Manager for Volunteers
Improving Neighborhood Environments (VINES) and Farm Manager
for Marz Farm, certified organic hay and vegetable farm
Moderator: Richard McCarthy, Director, Program Services,
Association for Vision Rehabilitation and Employment A.V.R.E. |
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Risk & Protective Factors of Raw Milk:
Martha V. Pickard, Ag/Grazing Program Coordinator,
Adirondack North Country Association
Benefits of growing & eating organic food:
Jim Gardiner, Organic Valley dairy farmer, Chenango County
Benefits of Grass Raised Beef:
Troy Bishopp, Bishopp Family Farm
Moderator: Laura Biasillo, Agricultural Economic Development
Specialist Cornell Cooperative Extension-Broome County |
