Winter Soups Workshop Wednesday, February 6, 2019 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Seneca County CCE Offices ((mailing address) 308 Main Street Shop Centre Waterloo, New York 13165) Want to warm up and help fight off the colds this winter season? Come join us for our Winter Soup Workshop!Winter is a perfect time to enjoy hot, hearty soups at mealtimes.Homemade soup is highly nutritious and cost effective. In this workshop, learn how to make bone broth based soups and vegetable-based soups from scratch. We will also talk about making soup in a slow cooker, pressure cooker, or stock pot. Participants will also learn tips on how to safely can or freeze soups and broth for later enjoyment.This workshop will be led by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Seneca County’s Nutrition Issue Leader and Master Food Preserver, Mo Tidball, along with Nutrition Educator Candace Riegel. These experts, with their vast knowledge, will show you tricks, techniques, and safe procedures to make a robust chicken soup from left-over rotisserie chicken bones, how to make beef or venison bone broth, and also how to make a purely vegetable based soup.Nutrition information will also be provided.Participants will be served a bowl or two of soup and will go home with recipes and materials to confidently cook soup at home, along with the knowledge of how to safely preserve the leftovers. The cost is $15.Space is limited and pre-registration is required to attend.To register please call Seneca CCE at 315-539-9251 or email seneca@cornell.edu, or register online: https://reg.cce.cornell.edu/wintersoups_245. Seneca Cornell Cooperative Extension is a helpful resource for food safety information. Check out online resources for pressure canner maintenance and food preservation safety at http://www.senecacountycce.org/fcs_foodpreservation.php or at http://nchfp.uga.edu/publications/publications_usda.html. Moira Tidball, mmt65@cornell.edu, 315-539-9251 ========================================= Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Workshop Monday, February 25, 2019 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Ovid Fire Department (2136 Brown Street Ovid, NY 14521) Seneca County Cornell Cooperative Extension (SCCCE) and the New York State Hemlock Initiative, part of Cornell University’s Department of Natural Resources, will present an informational workshop on the hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA).HWA is an invasive forest pest from southern Japan that decimates native populations of the Eastern hemlock tree. It is most apparent as white, woolly puffballs clumped near the base of needles along hemlock twigs. Its damage to hemlock trees in southern U.S. states has been immense and, as this insect pest has moved north, New York’s hemlocks are at risk.Eastern hemlock is New York’s third most common tree species and a foundation species in our forests. Hemlocks are important for maintaining healthy wildlife habitats as well as human interests such as clean fresh water resources and their loss would drastically change our landscape.HWA first arrived in New York in the 1980s and has since been found in 43 counties. Infestations most likely arrived via infested nursery stock. HWA has caused considerable damage to hemlocks on Long Island, and in the Lower Hudson region and southern Catskills. Infestations have been found throughout the Finger Lakes region and in 2017 the first HWA sighting in the Adirondacks was reported. Through research, management, and help from citizen scientists, we hope to slow the spread of HWA, reduce its impact, and implement an effective biocontrol management strategy.Join us as we welcome Charlotte Malmborg, Education and Outreach Technician with the New York State Hemlock Initiative, Cornell University Department of Natural Resources, who will discuss this invasive pest and ways you can help to monitor for it and protect your trees.The workshop is free but registration is requested. Call Seneca County CCE at 315-539-9251 to register, or register online at https://reg.cce.cornell.edu/HWA_245. FREE Patti Paine, pap11@cornell.edu, 315-539-9251 ========================================= 2019 Finger Lakes Craft Beverage Conference Tuesday, March 26, 2019 8:00 am - 5:00 pm del Lago Resort & Casino (1133 NY-414 Waterloo, NY 13165) For more information, go to: www.flxcraftbevcon.com and follow Finger Lakes Craft Beverage Conference on Facebook. Judy Wright, jlw24@cornell.edu, 315-539-9251 ext. 109 =========================================