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Cornell's Small Farms Task Group, composed of farmers, non-governmental organizations, extension educators, and faculty, is pleased to announce the first round of grant awards for innovative small farms programming. These grants are awarded to Cornell Cooperative Extension educators with creative program ideas targeted to smaller farms.
Fourteen projects were funded at a total of over $41,000. For more information on specific grant projects contact the extension educator or the Cornell Cooperative Extension office listed below.
For more information about the CCE Grants Program for Innovative Small Farm Education or the Small Farms Task Group, contact Dave Smith at (607) 255-1780 or ar47@cornell.edu, or visit our web site at www.smallfarms.cornell.edu.
A 1-day participatory workshop on a local dairy farm will cover various fencing options, and demonstrate fence construction techniques.
Nutrition program educators will attend farmer's markets on bi-monthly basis to provide seasonally appropriate recipes and samples, as planned with farmers. These materials will also be brought to other program settings such as WIC clinics, summer youth programs, and senior centers.
These programs will build on the interest in rotational grazing gained from a WNY Pasture Expo. The pasture walks will also include tools for the participants to help them improve their pastures such as evaluation, fertilization, ration management, and overall grazing techniques.
This project will train landowners in the production and marketing of agro-forestry products in the form of tours, woods walks, demonstration plots, and targeted seminars. Marketing and processing will be an integral component of the programming.
They will develop educational materials targeted to small farm producers who are looking for new marketing avenues. The materials will be in the form of case studies of meat and poultry producers who have been identified as being interested in pooling their efforts to sell at the local farmer's market.
An adaptation on a PowerPoint presentation series for beginning farmers developed by Terry Poole, Frederick County, MD. The 3-part series will be adapted to local farming interests and needs. Course 1 begins in September 2001; Course 2 will begin in March 2002.
Sally Fallon is a journalist, chef, nutrition researcher, homemaker, community activist, and author of Nourishing Traditions. This is a joint sponsored seminar with Allegany County dairy producers, the Highlander Grazing Group, and New York Pasture Association. The goal is to educate farmers and consumers about the value of grass fed milk and meat products, which can be used to enhance the marketing of these products.
Assist the NY Pasture Association in developing a more formalized layout structure, printing, and mailing of their quarterly newsletter.
Increases marketing opportunities for local producers by enrolling more restaurants in the Finger Lakes Culinary Bounty Farmer-Restaurant Network. Participants in the Farmer-Restaurant Network will participate in workshops to develop awareness of the challenges and opportunities on both ends. The project will also develop a database web site where farmers post product information for restaurants to source supplies.
This project will work with both consumers and small farms to holistically market local products through educating consumers about the importance and use of local foods and farmers on business management and marketing techniques.
Five to six forage and moisture testing clinics will be held throughout Allegany, Cattauragus, and Chautauqua Counties. Farmers will be able to bring in samples of corn to aid them in figuring the proper time to begin harvest. They will also teach on-farm methods of moisture testing.
A guide that will be targeted at beginning and part-time farmers. The guide will include information on planting times, soil sampling procedures, seeding rates, growing degree maps, first and last frost days, livestock information, and measurement tables. The information will be relevant to the southwestern NY region.
Small farms will cultivate increased awareness for their products by selling their products through developing a marketing relationship with Urban Delights Youth Farmstands, a Syracuse-based youth business program.
Farmers will tour Lewis County dairy farms that maintain an acceptable level of profitability through careful cost control and high milk production. The following day the group will reconvene to discuss their observations, focusing on management characteristics that enable the host farmers to be profitable.