Let’s Garden Day! 2025

Saturday, March 1, 2025, 8:30 AM - 2:00 PM

Registration required. Register online at: https://reg.cce.cornell.edu/letsgarden2025_245

If you do not have access to the internet, please call CCE Seneca at (315) 539-9251.

Join us as Seneca County Cornell Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners present a day of interesting speakers, gardening information to help you prepare for your gardening projects this spring and beyond, and homemade food and refreshments.

Featured topics are:

Soil Health
Vegetable Gardening for Beginners
Bees and pollinating plants

There will be healthy homemade options available throughout the day. Lunch includes a fresh greens salad, homemade soups and chilis, fresh bread, and homemade desserts. It is encouraged to bring your own place setting.

There will also be free seeds and door prizes for everyone that registers!

AGENDA
8:30am - Registration /refreshments
9:00am - Welcome
9:15am - 10:30am - Deborah Aller, PhD - Senior Extension Associate at Cornell University and New York Soil Health Program Coordinator - will be speak about soil health.
10:45am - Noon - Steve Reiners - Cornell Vegetable Program Co-Team Leader at Cornell Agritech - will discuss vegetable varieties for beginning gardeners
Noon - 12:45pm - Lunch
12:45pm - 2:00pm - Petra Hafker - Graduate student from Cornell AgriTech - will share her research on bees and discuss plants for pollinators / looking for pollinators, both native and managed
2:00pm - Q&A with CCE Master Gardeners