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Magan- Growing to Sustain
In Otsego and Schoharie counties food deserts present a challenge to having healthy, self-reliant lifestyles. Cornell Cooperative Extension of Otsego & Schoharie and its volunteer corps of Master Gardeners aim to address this issue through creating an interpretive garden at their site in Cooperstown, New York by the end of Summer 2022. The garden will include interpretive signs, written and designed by graduate students in Dr. Gretchen Sorin’s Exhibition course. While gardening itself is a practice anyone can do, for many people it is difficult to start because they lack the knowledge, confidence, and time to create their own food resources. The signs in this garden will address these concerns and will explain how gardening can support a more sustainable lifestyles through providing food resources, supporting local ecosystems, and getting people connected to the outdoors and with each other. CCE will pair the garden with programming to demonstrate and train residents on how to increase self-reliance in producing local foods, preparing nutritional meals, finding career opportunities related to agriculture, and preserving land and watersheds.