CCE Spotlights

from March Extension Connection Magazine 2022

by Cornell Cooperative Extension Sullivan County

Ag ICYMI

Agriculture Spotlight

HARVEST OF THE MONTH The Farm-to-School program was launched in 2015. It helps kindergarten through grade 12 schools to increase the purchase of locally grown and produced food for school meals and provides increased economic benefits to New York’s farmers. Harvest of the Month is a Farm-to-School initiative that promotes a different locally grown food in the school cafeteria each month. Sullivan Counties Farm to School Initiative is piloting a Harvest of the Month Program in 2022. In February, three school districts, Sullivan West, Roscoe, and Livingston Manor highlighted Butterball and Kennebec Potatoes from Somewhere in Time Farm, in Parksville, NY. The goal of this program is to educate students on the importance of local food, it’s increased nutritional value, and how food purchases and sourcing choices ties directly into our larger economy. We also hope this to be an opportunity for local farms to market to their local consumers, and for School Districts and The Catskills Food Hub, a local, not for profit food distributor, build a fluid working relationship to expand purchasing.

Justin Sutherland of Somewhere in Time Justin Sutherland of Somewhere in Time Farm, and CCE Board of Directors. Read Farm, and CCE Board of Directors. Read full Harvest of the Month on page 13. full Harvest of the Month on page 13. Staff Spotlight

ERIN DENMAN Erin started as the Operations Coordinator at CCE Sullivan County in January 2022. Born and raised on a small farm, she was a Sullivan County 4-H member for over a decade and a 4-H Equine Program volunteer for three years before aging out. Erin returns to the team with an English B.A. concentrated in Literary Theory and Analysis. When not at the office she can usually be found reading, watching theatre, or riding the trails with her horse Oreo.