November Extension Connection Magazine 2023

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SueAnn and attendees at the recent Yoga and Mindfulness for Diverse Abilities Workshop.

Upcoming U pcoming Events Events & Programs Programs Cooking Matters in Your Community 4-H Saturdays Discipline is Not a Dirty Word Series Farmer Mixer at Hidden Acres Farm Caregiver Support Group Building Basic Dog Obedience

Issue Isssue sue Highlights Higghhligghhts NRCS “Deadlines” For Cost-Share Assistance Approaching - Step by Step Guide Northeast Latino/a/x Agricultural Community Conference So You Want Diversity Equity and Inclusion?

Ten Practical Tips for Establishing Sustainable Change

Alzheimer’s & Dementia Caregiver Support Group

Colleen McKeon: A Life Well-Lived

See more events and opportunities on sullivancce.org/events.

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November is National Alzheimer’s Disease Month! Check out page 12 for fun facts about pumpkins!

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Page 3 Message from the Executive Director Page 4 NRCS “Deadlines” for Cost-Share Assistance Approaching - Step-byStep Guide Page 8 Managing for Wildlife Habitat Page 9 CCE Spotlight!

Table Table of of Contents Contents Page 10 Northeast Latino/a/x Agricultural Community Conference Page 12 Fast Facts!

Page 14 Racial Equity Messaging Must be More Inclusive Page 18 Move Your Way: How can I stay active as I

get older?

Page 20 Colleen McKeon: A Life Well Lived Page 22 Caring for Caregivers Page 23 Thanks to our Sponsors!

Page 24 Cooking Matters in Your Community

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Dara Smith............................President Alex Alorro...................Vice President Denise Frangipane...............Secretary Dawn Parsons.......................Treasurer Nadia Rajsz.................Legislative Rep. Adam Hughes..................Cornell Rep. Freda Eisenberg Amanda Langseder Denise Luckman Erika Malmgreen Steve Marton Gary Silver Gary Silverman Marcie Wild

PROGRAM COMMITTEE Heather Brown Roberta Chambers Robert Kaplan, Chairperson Eugene Thalmann Deborah Worden

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EXTENSION CONNECTION Produced by: Cornell Cooperative Extension Sullivan County Edited by: Aaron Denman & Colleen Monaghan Cornell Cooperative Extension Sullivan County is an employer and educator recognized for valuing AA/EEO, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with DisAbilities and provides equal program and employment opportunities.

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STAFF MEMBERS Colleen Monaghan..............................................................................Executive Director Taylor Adam.............................................................Beginner Farmer Program Manager Monica Ponce-Agredano ...............................................................Ag. Program Assistant SueAnn Boyd.........................................................Healthy Schools Program Coordinator Alan Carroll...................................................................Food Systems Program Manager Luciana Carvo.............................................................Sullivan Fresh Market Coordinator Lynn Colavito..............................................Community Cupboard Program Coordinator Martin Colavito...........................................................Prevention Programs Issue Leader Wanda V. Cruz...............................................Healthy Communities Program Coordinator Aaron Denman.........................................................Association Operations Coordinator Randi Dana Hazen.......................................................Sullivan Fresh Market Coordinator Eugene Doyle...................................................................................................Custodian Katie Gasior.................................................................Horticulture Program Coordinator Christopher Jones..............................................................Taste NY Operations Manager Joy Leon.................................................................Nutrition & Physical Activity Educator Katie Rose Lugauer...................................................................4-H Program Coordinator Erica Lynch..........................................................Catskills Kitchen Program Coordinator John Mastrangelo............................................................................Assistant Ag Market Manager Nancy McGraw....................................Caregiver Resource Center Program Coordinator Melinda Meddaugh.......................................................Ag & Food Systems Issue Leader Vivian Monsanto...............................................................................Finance Coordinator Barbara Moran................................................4-H Youth Development Program Manager Bee Moser............................................................................................Senior Nutritionist Shanice Owens..............................................Community Cupboard Program Coordinator Vanessa Petrossian...........................Program Director: Operations and Community Vitality Abyssinia Pla El...................................................................................Finance Coordinator Michelle Proscia..............................................Agriculture Production Program Manager Ann-Marie Sidtis............................................Drug Free Communities Program Assistant Tara VanHorn.........................................................................................Finance Manager Malinda Ware........................................................................................Program Director Sean Welsh...................................................................Energy Senior Resource Educator John Wilcox..........................................................................................Facilities Manager Vinny Bonizzi, Kayla Evans......................................................................Ag Market Coordinators

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Hello friends of Extension, Thank you to the more than 110 supporters who joined us at The Big Barn earlier this month for CCE Sullivan’s 109th Annual Meeting. It was so nice to enjoy our family style meal together, learn a bit, and to celebrate exceptional CCE staff and Friends of Extension.

A big shoutout to our 2023 Extension Professionals of the Year John Mastrangelo with the Taste NY team, and Sean Welsh, who recently celebrated 20 years of service with Extension! We’re so lucky to work with such dedicated professionals!

And special thanks to our Annual Friend of Extension awardees!

This year we recognized Business Friend M&P Builders, Community-based Friend Action Toward Independence, Municipal Friend the Town of Fallsburg Parks & Recreation, Volunteer Friend Jenny Phelps of Small Town Country 4-H, and Farm Friend ALL Family Farm. With friends like these, Extension in Sullivan County is sure to thrive for another century!

November and December mark a period of reflection and planning for CCE Sullivan staff and programs. All of our federal reporting is due over the next two months and we begin to pull together our Annual Report to the Community. We’re also recruiting for volunteer program advisory committee members. If you or someone you know is interested, please contact me at 845-798-1258 or cm638@ cornell.edu and we can chat about the experience.

Until next month, get that firewood stacked, prepare the turkey, and take some time to reconnect with loved ones during the Thanksgiving season. Thank you so much for being a part of the Extension family!

Cheers,

Colleen Monaghan Executive Director, cm638@cornell.edu Extension Connection November 2023

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NRCS “DEADLINES” FOR COST-SHARE ASSISTANCE APPROACHING – STEP BY STEP GUIDE Submitted by Taylor Adam, Beginner Farmer Program Manager

Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) uses ranking dates (also batching dates) as a way to review, approve, and fund applications at several points throughout the year. This ensures that farmers, graziers, and non-industrial forest landowners looking to establish or enhance conservation practices on their land have several opportunities to receive funding. NRCS accepts applications on a continual basis, and applications received after a ranking/batching date will automatically be considered during the next funding cycle.

However, funding for the more popular conservation practices (i.e. high tunnels) or those with less funding can run out and thus an application for that type of financial assistance may never be considered until the following fiscal year.

That’s why it’s important to contact NRCS with your interest and/or apply now, before your state’s ranking date.

Jaimie McGirt provided a step-by-step guide in the RAFI-USA Blog.

The guide below has been modified to provide New Page 4

York information and if any of the below instructions are unclear or you need to talk your conservation ideas or plans through with someone before contacting NRCS, please reach out you Taylor Adam at tea46@cornell.edu or 845-2929-6180 ext.130.

Get started with the guidance below, step by step.

STEP 1: Check your state/ territory’s ranking date in the chart below: NEW YORK DEADLINES Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP), November 29, 2023, and February 9, 2024

you’ve applied in the past, skip to the section, “For second-time applicants.”

STEP 3: Do you have a farm number? Having a farm number is required to apply, and having an up-to-date farm record is required for further NRCS eligibility. If you do not have a farm number, scroll down to “How to quickly get a farm number,” and once you have the number, you can proceed with the steps below.

STEP 4: Know the contact information and location for your local NRCS and FSA staff. Look them up by state and county here.

STEP 5: Have a sense of what you are applying for, and if you suspect Conservation you don’t know the Stewardship Program full opportunities for (CSP), November 3, 2023, assistance available, and January 26, 2024 please contact Taylor Adam tea46@cornell.

Environmental Quality edu for free technical Incentives Program assistance.

(EQIP), November 3, 2023 STEP 6: Apply based on whether you are a firstAre you thinking “Yikes?” time applicant or a secondYes, it’s a tight turnaround applicant, following but the following steps are time the instructions below. definitely achievable by those deadlines and will For second-time get your foot in the door or applicants your place in line for more planning and assistance STEP 1: Do you have a from NRCS soon down the good relationship with road.

NRCS? STEP 2: Have you applied in the past or is this your first time applying? If Extension Connection

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• If not, please contact Taylor Adam tea46@ cornell.edu or 845-292-

6180 ext.130.

• If yes, contact your NRCS agent and ask if your application will be “rolled over” to this coming cycle for funding consideration.

Ask them to review your application with you.

STEP 2: If you are changing the type of assistance you request for 2024 or you are changing where the assistance is requested for, you should ask NRCS if you need to revise your prior application form or submit a new one.

NOTE: Producers who have applied and not been selected for costshare assistance in the past *may* get priority consideration this coming year, depending on rules in your state, and your application might not be allowed to change in order to get this priority.

Discuss this with your agent! Tell them if your farm infrastructure or landscape improvement needs have changed since you last applied.

Ask them if keeping your application as-is would benefit your chances for assistance, or would you better benefit by revising your application to request assistance for slightly different practices?

STEP 3: If submitting a new application for 2024 assistance, follow your agent’s instructions or utilize the instructions

below.

For first-time applicants STEP 1: Have both your farm and your tract/ parcel numbers as well as your SNN or business EIN number on hand for application materials. Both farm and tract numbers can be found on the “Farm Record” that FSA issued to you when you received your farm number.

• If your farm number was issued so long ago and you don’t know it, or it was in another relative’s name, you will need to contact your local FSA office to request the number in order to complete your NRCS application form. You may need to update your contact information while you are on the phone with FSA.

STEP 2: Email or call your local USDA Service Center NRCS contact person (entered below) to inform them of your intent to apply and that they should look for your application soon. Look them up by state and county here.

submit with everything filled in EXCEPT the SSN and if they can fill it in for you over the phone once they have your documents in hand. They may tell you to email your application to a specific person handling the paperwork.

To complete Your NRCS Application (if you have a farm number) STEP 1: Complete the Conservation Program Application form CPA-1200 by hand or electronically (click and then download, save the blank copy, then edit and re-save. Print if you are able for your records. See specific instructions for this form below.

NOTE: The CPA-1200 form serves as an interest or intake form for NRCS staff and gets you consideration for this year’s NRCS costshare funding. This form is not contractual and does not guarantee you financial support. It will however hold your place for consideration for conservation assistance and funding in the current fiscal year until an agent contacts you to schedule a site visit. If this never happens, contact Jaimie McGirt.

In your email you should state your name, county, farm number, and how you will submit your application (by email, mail, Instructions for CPA-1200 or in person). (the “application”) • PRIVACY NOTE: If you • In the blank “Location do not want to submit where assistance is anything with your social requested” write: Farm security number over Address, County, Your email, ask if you can Extension Connection November 2023

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farm number, your tract number • In the blank “Assistance requested” write: EQIP and/or CSP assistance for _____ practices to address _____ concerns/ problems on ____ part of my farm.

FOR EXAMPLE: “EQIP or CSP assistance for establishing pollinator habitat and beneficial insects, and any other relevant practices to address insufficient terrestrial habitat for wildlife and invertebrates on the edges of my cropland.”

NOTE: Because this isn’t a contractual form, nothing you put on here will lock you into a practice, but it will or should make the agent do their research and be more prepared or bring the right people with them for a later farm visit.

If you are not sure of what exactly you are applying for, please contact Taylor Adam tea46@cornell.edu for further guidance and free technical assistance.

STEP 2: If applicable, complete the Historically Underserved Farmer/ Rancher form CCC-860.

See specific instructions below for this form that could give you access to increased advantages in the application process.

Instructions for HUFR Form 860: • For field 1A. enter the Page 6

location of your USDA service center, found here: https://offices. sc.egov.usda.gov/ locator/app • For 1B enter the phone number of your USDA service center (found in the same place as above) • For 1C enter the application year you are applying for: 2024. This is important, don’t write 2023.

• For Parts A-D, check the boxes that apply to you. Read the official form instructions on the last page because the rules for checking these boxes are not necessarily intuitive.

• Socially Disadvantaged • Limited Resource Farmer (Determine your eligibility for this category here • New/Beginning Farmer • Veteran Farmer

STEP 3: Save both forms to a file on your computer or drive titled “NRCS Application 2024” STEP 4: Submit the two forms by email, mail, or inperson to your NRCS agent or to anyone else you’re instructed to send it to by your state deadline by 5:00 p.m. You are welcome to copy Taylor Adam at tea46@cornell.edu in your email to NRCS. If you email it, state the following in your email: • Who you are • Your county • State why you need Extension Connection

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NRCS support (state your resource concern(s) and any practices you know you want to implement and where on the farm, plus anything else you need to learn more about during an agent’s future visit to your farm.

• State that you are applying by the ___ ranking date for Fiscal Year 2024 consideration and to be contacted ASAP if anything in your application or eligibility is missing or incorrect.

• Ask them to verify if you have up-to-date FSA farm records for FY 2024, including the following up-to-date forms for this new fiscal year: • Adjusted Gross Income Form (AGI) 941 • Farm Operation Plan Form 901-I for Individual or 902-E for Entity (just one, depending on what your farm record is under.)

• Highly Erodible Land and Wetland Conservation Form (HELCWC) AD-1026

• Ask to schedule an appointment with your local USDA Service Center’s NRCS Soil Supervisor, in the office or on the land you manage/own.

How to quickly get a farm number It is not necessarily too late to receive one and apply to NRCS by the ranking date.

You will need your photo ID, your SNN, your land’s deed or lease agreement, and a form described

below.

STEP 1: Call your local Farm Service Agency (FSA) agent to notify them of your need to apply to NRCS by ____ date and thus your immediate need for a farm number and they will provide further instructions. Or, if you are a confident email user, see the alternative step 1 below.

The agent may ask for your email and send you the “Customer Data Worksheet” to complete and sign. This form is like an application for a farm number. Be sure to ask if an “electronic signature” (tying your name) on the form will suffice. If it will not and you have to hand-sign, you will need a way to print, scan/take a picture of the completed form, and email it back to your agent. If you don’t use email or you don’t know how to save and send documents over email, plan to visit the office in person.

• PRIVACY NOTE: If you do not want to submit anything with your social security number over email, ask if you can submit with everything filled in EXCEPT the SSN and if they can fill it in for you over the phone once they have your documents in hand. They may tell you to email your application to a specific person handling the paperwork.

STEP 2: For an in-person

visit to get a farm number, bring your photo ID, a copy of your deed or farm/ land lease agreement, and your Social Security card or other SSN ID. STEP 3: Complete the Customer Data Worksheet with FSA. Save a copy of this form and any other forms you submit to FSA (they can copy them for you). Request a Receipt of Service before you leave!

ALTERNATIVE STEP 1: • Email both your local service center’s FSA agent and the NRCS Soil Supervisor with your name, desire to apply for NRCS assistance by ____ date, your county, farm/forestland address, and attach the following documents: • A completed Customer Data Worksheet • A copy of your photo ID • A copy of the land’s deed or lease agreement with your legal name apparent

• Request they call you on the phone to receive your SNN. • Request they provide a receipt of service with their reply.

If you provide sufficient documents and if the agent can easily locate your farm in their mapping system, some agents will create a farm record and issue you a farm number within the week. We don’t like to say it, but others can take up to three months or in some cases, more.

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STEP 2: Save the Customer Data Sheet and a copy of the email to your computer.

STEP 3: After they have replied and indicated if they can provide a farm number in the time you’ve requested, monitor your email, or look out for a call from their office.

Receiving a farm number or “farm record” means you will be provided a multi-page document with information about your acreage and a farm map.

Your farm number will be located on the top right corner of the first page.

If you have applied to NCRS in the past, been denied, or have other questions about applying for NRCS assistance or want support in preparing for an NRCS agent to visit your farm or forest land, please reach out to Taylor Adam at tea46@cornell. edu.

Modified from: McGirt, J. (2023, October 4). NRCS “Deadlines” for Cost-Share Assistance Approaching. rafi USA. October 12, 2023, https://www. rafiusa.org/blog/nrcs-deadlines-for-costshare-assistance-approaching/?utm_ source=RAFI-USA+Email+List&utm_ campaign=1195e6377a-EMAIL_ CAMPAIGN_2023_09_05_06_21_ COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_ term=0_-7eaa573fe7-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ ID%5D

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MANAGING FOR WILDLIFE HABITAT Submitted by Colleen Monaghan, Executive Director

Wildlife have four basic requirements: food, cover, water and space. Different wildlife species require different stages of forest growth to meet these needs.

Several aspects of your property determine how many species can live and thrive in your forest - plant cover, harvest operations, water resources and topography.

Your forest may have streams, swamps, rivers, ponds, and areas that adjoin fields, pastures, roads and other openings.

The relationship between vegetation management and wildlife species habitat is well established.

Understanding relationships is the first step in determining how your own forest can be managed to promote the wildlife species you want to attract.

impacts on wildlife Even-aged forests Young, even-aged forests benefit early successional wildlife species by encouraging forbs, grasses and brush. There are several ways you can improve the value of even-aged harvest/ regeneration areas for wildlife.

Den trees and mast trees

These trees are critically important for food and cover. Den trees have one or more cavities used by birds, reptiles and mammals for • Small harvest areas (up to roosting or nesting. As a rule, two to four den trees per 50 acres) scattered over acre should be left in any the landscape provide thinned or harvested area. edge and landscape diversity den trees might house • Irregularly shaped areas Small chickadees, woodpeckers, provide more edge than screech owls or flying square or round areas squirrels. Large den trees • Separating harvest areas are used by squirrels, with 100-foot (or wider) raccoons, wood ducks and areas of uncut timber occasionally, even a bear. enhances diversity of Mast trees produce fruits habitats and provides and nuts used by wildlife for travel corridors between food. Hickory, oaks, beech, fragmented habitats persimmon, serviceberry, black gum, hollies, • Buffer strips on streams protect water quality, but hawthorns, dogwoods, are also critical wildlife grapevines and many other corridors species are valuable to • Islands of uncut timber wildlife. The ideal time to within harvest areas will select and mark den and enhance wildlife habitat mast trees is before you thin by leaving mast (food) or harvest your timber. producing trees. Oaks, hickories, dogwoods, persimmons and berry Adapted from: producing shrubs are “Managing for Wildlife Habitat.” Forest*A*syst - tools to manage your private woodlands, 2018. https:// excellent hard and soft www.forestasyst.org/wildlife.cfm. mast species to leave

For example, quail and partridge feed on seeds of annual and perennial weeds and grasses that occur in young stands of timbers, where sunlight reaches the forest floor. This is early successional habitat.

Pileated woodpeckers depend on dead and rotting trees found in mature forests.

This is late successional Thinning habitat. Still other wildlife prefer mid-successional Thinning stands allows habitat. more sunlight to reach the forest floor resulting in more Management practices Page 8

vigorous understory growth.

This practice sets back succession at the ground level, yet leaves some mid and late successional trees in the overstory.

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CCE Sullivan Spotlights Meet Alan, the Food Systems Program Manager! Alan Carroll is a passionate community organizer who has been working with Sullivan county farmers and communities for the last decade. He has worked extensively with many of the counties’ farmers markets, the Lackawaxen Food Hub and the Catskills Food Hub connecting our community to local food.

Alan has also worked at Sullivan 180 as their Beautification Coordinator helping community groups care for public spaces, and as the lead on the Catskill Edible Garden Project, helping to create edible gardens at schools and daycare facilities

Staff Spotlight INTRODUCING ALAN CARROLL

throughout the county.

Alan also serves on the Hudson Valley LGBTQ+ Center’s Board of Directors as the Secretary and is an active volunteer with the Narrowsburg Beautification Group.

Alan has a Bachelors in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, he is a certified horticulturalist from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and a certified permaculturalist from Common Circle Education out of San Francisco. He has a passion for cooking, swimming in the Delaware River and making friends while playing in the dirt.

DHI Report:

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NO. COWS

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96

22368

839

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NORTHEAST LATINO/ A/X AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY CONFERENCE

as Latino/a/x,as well as service providers and educators, to strengthen networks and support opportunities for the Latino/a/x community.

It aims to be a welcoming space for Spanish-first members of our agricultural community to gather,learn, dream,find the path to December 7-8,2023 achieve their dreams and The Century House grow together in community.

Latham,NY This two-day event will be primarily conducted in Spanish center the expressed Registration deadline: November and Latino/a/x farmer needs and 16,2023. expertise.There will be limited space for service providers and educators who work closely The Northeast Latino/a/x with the Latino/a/x agricultural Agricultural Community community.

Conference began from a need expressed by Latino/a/x farmers in NewYork State.The The conference will begin at conference will bring together noon on Thursday,December 7 farmers,farm supervisors, and wrap up at 1 p.m.on Friday, agricultural employees and December 8. aspiring farmers who identify Submitted by Taylor Adam, Beginner Farmer Program Manager

Conference session topics will include farm finances, access to land,markets and capital,farm management, strategic decision-making,and community building.

Our goal is for Latino/a/x farmers,farm supervisors, employees and aspiring farmers to attend free of charge,covering costs related to lodging,childcare and transportation,to allow for their full participation.To support this family-centered event,we are seeking sponsorship from organizations that serve the agricultural community,as well as service providers,nonprofits and business leaders.

We are actively inviting institutions and individuals to sponsor the conference.

You can sponsor here: https:// smallfarms.cornell.edu/ projects/futuro/conferencia/ donations-portal/.

Registration for service providers ($200 fee): https://smallfarms.cornell. edu/2023/10/inscripcionpara-proveedores-deservicios-conferencia-de-lacomunidad-agricola-latina-delnoreste-2023/.

Registration for producers (free): https://smallfarms. cornell.edu/2023/10/ inscripcion-para-productoresconferencia-de-la-comunidadagricola-latina-delnoreste-2023/.

Adapted from: Conferencia de la Comunidad Agrícola latina del noreste. Cornell Small Farms. (2023, October 24). https:// smallfarms.cornell.edu/projects/futuro/ conferencia/

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CONFERENCIA DE LA COMUNIDAD AGRÍCOLA LATINA DEL NORESTE Submitted by Taylor Adam, Beginner Farmer Program Manager

Únase a Nosotros 7 y 8 de diciembre del 2023 The Century House Latham,NuevaYork Fecha límite para inscribirse: 16 de noviembre del 2023.

La Conferencia de la Comunidad Agrícola Latina del Noreste emergió de una necesidad expresada por productores latinos en el Estado de NuevaYork.La conferencia reunirá a agricultores, supervisores,empleados y aspirantes a la producción agrícola de ascendencia latina, más proveedores de servicios y educadores,para fortalecer las redes y oportunidades de apoyo a la comunidad agrícola latina.

Será un espacio acogedor para que la comunidad agrícola latina se reúna,aprenda, busque el camino para lograr sus sueños y crezca como comunidad.Este evento de dos días se llevará a cabo principalmente en español y

se centrará en las necesidades y conocimientos expresados por los agricultores latinos.

Habrá cupo limitado para proveedores de servicios y educadores que trabajan de cerca con la comunidad agrícola latina.

Se dará inicio a la conferencia a las 12 del mediodía el jueves 7 de diciembre,y se clausurará a la 1 pm el viernes 8.

Se tratarán temas como el manejo de los recursos financieros,el acceso a la tierra, los mercados y el capital,la gestión de negocios agrícolas, la toma de decisiones estratégicas y la construcción de comunidad a través del intercambio de experiencias.

Nuestro objetivo es que sea sin costo para los productores y sus familias,incluyendo el alojamiento,alimentación, cuidado de niños y reembolso por los gastos del transporte.

Se solicita a los proveedores de servicios y educadores,que desde su institución aporte un pago de inscripción más el costo de su alojamiento y transporte.

Estamos activamente buscando patrocinadores para la conferencia,sean

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instituciones o individuos: https://smallfarms.cornell.edu/ projects/futuro/conferencia/ donations-portal/.

Inscripción para Proveedores de Servicios ($200): https:// smallfarms.cornell. edu/2023/10/inscripcionpara-proveedores-deservicios-conferencia-de-lacomunidad-agricola-latina-delnoreste-2023/.

Inscripción para Productores (Gratuita):https://smallfarms. cornell.edu/2023/10/ inscripcion-para-productoresconferencia-de-la-comunidadagricola-latina-delnoreste-2023/.

Conferencia de la Comunidad Agrícola latina del noreste. Cornell Small Farms. (2023, October 24). https:// smallfarms.cornell.edu/projects/futuro/ conferencia/

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November Focus: Fast Facts, Cool Tools, & News to Use

November is National !

Alzheimer’s Disease Month Almost two-thirds of Americans with Alzheimer’s dementia are women.

In the U.S., nonHispanic Black and Hispanic older adults are disproportionately more likely than White older adults to have Alzheimer’s or other dementias.

On average, a person with Alzheimer’s lives 4 to 8 years after diagnosis but can live as long as 20 years, depending on other factors.

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An estimated 6.7 million Americans age 65 and older are living with Alzheimer’s dementia in 2023. Seventy-three percent are age 75 or older.

Alzheimer’s is the most common cause of dementia, a general term for memory loss and other cognitive abilities serious enough to interfere with daily life.

Alzheimer’s is not a normal part of aging. The greatest known risk factor is increasing age, and the majority of people with Alzheimer’s are 65 and older. Alzheimer’s disease is considered to be younger-onset Alzheimer’s if it affects a person under 65.

In 1906, German physician Dr. Alois Alzheimer ęrst described “a peculiar disease” — one of profound memory loss and microscopic brain changes — a disease we now know as Alzheimer’s.

Alzheimer’s has no cure, but two treatments — aducanumab (Aduhelm) and lecanemab (Leqembi) — demonstrate that removing beta-amyloid, one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease, from the brain reduces cognitive and functional decline in people living with early Alzheimer’s.

Alzheimers is a progressive disease, where dementia symptoms gradually worsen over a number of years. In its early stages, memory loss is mild, but with latestage Alzheimers, individuals lose the ability to carry on a conversation and respond to their environment.

Source: Gaugler, Joseph, Bryan James, Tricia Johnson, Jessica Reimer, Kezia Scales, Sarah Tom, and Jennifer Weuve.“2023 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures.” Alzheimer’s Association 19, no. 4 (2023): 1598–1695. https://doi.org/10.1002/ alz.13016.

“What Is Alzheimer’s?” Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia, 2023. https://www.alz.org/ alzheimers-dementia/what-is-alzheimers.

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SO, YOU WANT DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION? TEN PRACTICAL TIPS FOR ESTABLISHING SUSTAINABLE CHANGE Written by Olubukola O. Nafiu, MD, FRCA, MS Submitted by Aaron Denman, Association Operations Coordinator, and Malinda Ware, Program Director and Chair of Association DEI Committee

RECOMMENDATION 1: KNOW YOUR WHY Before jumping on the “DEI bandwagon,” please ask yourself and everyone in your organization why you want to do this. This simple question, but arguably the most important, is easy to brush aside with blasé statements like, “because it is the right thing to do,” or “we believe the time is right,” etc. But spending however long it takes to codify and solidify this “why” in your minds is critical to the success of any DEI program. It’s especially vital that the White majority “own this why.” The minority staff in your institution understand the “why” at a visceral level—their continued survival depends on it! Get the “why” right, and your DEI program will become a model for others to copy.

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organization needs one. If our society was equitable, DEI programs would be unnecessary. The goal is to make DEI initiatives redundant. For those who may want to turn this into a personal issue (and there will be many), remind them that this is a systemic rather than an individualistic one.

None of us created the “DEI problem”; these are the vestiges of our history of segregation and majoritydirected affirmative action that for centuries denied one group opportunities.

Remind them that there was a time when women were not allowed to vote in this country. Imagine if the all-male US Congress had folded their arms and said, “Why are these women blaming us? We didn’t create the problem.”

Instead of personalizing that injustice, they rolled up their sleeves and gave women the right to vote!

The ongoing call for DEI is like that. Help the “resisters” understand that history is not just a window into the past; it brilliantly illuminates the present. We don’t have to have been complicit in the events of the past for them to affect us today. Think about it: feeling guilty or affronted by calls for DEI initiatives is like feeling guilty that a patient presented with an open femoral fracture.

Guilt here is pointless. Our responsibility is to fix the fracture.

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along” epidurals for cesarean deliveries? Well, similarly, don’t waste your time and energy on performative “BandAid” or “limp-along” DEI initiatives—the type of superficial DEI efforts that some institutions spend millions of dollars on. They assume you can fix a structural problem with a half-day diversity conference where everyone can “come and have an honest conversation about diversity” or “hold hands and speak candidly about our feelings,” as though feelings can fix the malignancy that is systemic racism. So, if you want to do this, you must go all in; for example, you must commit to identifying and addressing the root causes of the disparities in a meaningful way, set bold, measurable goals, and establish a system of accountability. Performative DEI efforts will crumble at the first sign of opposition.

RECOMMENDATION 3: NAME THAT DEI The United States is amazingly diverse.

Consequently, DEI has many dimensions, including race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, and many others. Because race and ethnicity are the most prominent of all these grouping variables— systemic racism is primarily why we need DEI efforts—I urge you to target racial and ethnic diversity in your DEI efforts. Race is the primary coalescing variable in our nation.

We’re uncomfortable

talking about it and acknowledging it, but it’s always there. Take care of race/ethnicity in your umbrella efforts, and you can apply the same playbook (with some tweaks) to other inequities.

people. Be comfortable describing people as the larger society sees them or “as they wish to be described.” Avoid euphemisms when describing individuals’ identities.

RECOMMENDATION 4: LEARN YOUR DEI VOCABULARY

RECOMMENDATION 5: HIRE A VICE CHAIR FOR DEI

Commit to learning “DEI speak.” Know the meaning of acronyms like DEI, Equity Diversity and Inclusion (EDI), and Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) and terms like “microaggression,” “implicit bias,” “equity,” “equality,” “subliminal racism,” “intersectionality,” “allyship,” “sponsor,” and “tokenism.” Recognize that all these fancy words resulted from minority people simply trying to find ways to express their frustration with a society that doesn’t treat them as equal. Never “roll your mental eyes” when a faculty member complains about microaggressions; you’ve never been in their shoes, so how can you understand? If you know the fundamental difference between equality and equity, you will be able to passionately prosecute the DEI argument with your colleagues in the C-suite. You’ll come to understand that a 1-sizefits-all approach to DEI does not exist, and if it did, it wouldn’t work. By the way, never use the term “diverse candidate,” which some people do when they refer to a Black or Brown applicant. I have never met a “diverse person” in my life, but I have met Black, White, Asian, and Latinx

This should be a racial or ethnic minority person.

Although anyone with the desire to promote equity can do this job, and perhaps a White person would be effective in the short term (White normative authority is the default position in this country), I counsel against appointing a White person for several reasons. First, the primary reason for establishing this position is the presence of serious concerns about diversity and equity.

Choosing a White person to lead these efforts could be seen as “keeping it in-house.” Second, there are very few racial and ethnic minority individuals in leadership positions, and this role is perfect for a racial/ethnic minority person. I also suggest that you give special weight to Black and Brown women for this role, as they are at that unfortunate crossroad of intersectionality and are rarely given leadership opportunities.

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is not complete. As we progress on this front, we must examine the racial and ethnic composition of women in leadership roles to ensure that we’re keeping equity in view.

That said, don’t just pick anybody. Advertise the position and establish a committee to interview candidates. You may need to consider external candidates. Make sure the vice chair (VC)–DEI wants and earns the job. If you “simply pick” someone, they’ll be indebted to you.

You don’t want a lapdog— you want a competent and effective VC-DEI. They must have a vision of what they would like to develop and implement for your institution’s DEI program.

Moreover, understand that some departments in your organization may not have any racial or ethnic minority faculty to serve in a DEI leadership role, and some minoritized faculty may not want to serve in this role. In either situation, try to identify the “why.” Make sure their unwillingness to serve doesn’t reflect a pervasive culture of noninclusion or a sense that “nothing is going to change.”

RECOMMENDATION 6: PROVIDE THE NECESSARY RESOURCES FOR SUCCESS The DEI position must come with incentives (eg, protected time, administrative support, and authority), signifying your unwavering commitment to DEI activities. This is where the saying “your budget is your mission statement” rings loud and clear. The Page 15

VC-DEI position must be granted the same levels of support and authority as those given to your VC for research, clinical services, or trainee education.

Relatedly, never undermine your VC-DEI in public.

It’s tempting to “help” design the DEI program, but before long, you’ll be running it. Remember that minority leaders usually aren’t granted assumed competence. So, no matter how altruistic your intentions, resist this “takeover” urge. Be prepared for your team to come to you—instead of your VC-DEI—with innovative “DEI ideas.”

They do this not because they’re bad people, but because we’re all socialized to assume a White male authority framing. It’s your duty to redirect them. The more you try to “help” the VCDEI, the more you slowly destroy their authority, and in due course, they’ll stop taking initiatives. I’m not saying you shouldn’t get involved. Brainstorm or suggest ideas to your VCDEI in private and praise your VC-DEI in public. You don’t need another award for innovative ideas on your resume (you’re the CEO of one of the biggest hospitals in the world!), but your VC-DEI needs all the help they can get.

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opportunity appointee” and was only there to salve the department’s diversity conscience. He had to run every decision by his micromanaging chief. Kunle had “powerless power”: he was a director who couldn’t direct anything. He eventually grew frustrated and took his talent elsewhere. If people sense that the VCDEI is a puppet chosen to merely pursue your agenda, they’ll respond accordingly. Invariably, the puppet will grow tired and leave. So, give your VC-DEI free rein. You don’t want a clone of yourself; you want an enviable DEI program.

RECOMMENDATION 7: KNOW YOUR STATISTICS Know the demographic distribution of your staff.

What is the racial/ethnic composition of your institution? Require a head count in every department.

If 90% or more of any department is composed of only 1 racial/ethnic group, ask them why. Ask the academic departments to list faculty and staff by race/ethnicity and rank.

Numbers are powerful because they don’t care about our feelings. If a department has 150 staff members but only 2 Black and 3 Hispanic individuals, ask the department chair to explain. Be prepared for glib answers, like “we just can’t find them,” “we’re competing with other programs,” and “they don’t like our winter.” These are convenient stories that people tell themselves.

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increasing the number of racial/ethnic minority workers to 25%. Reward those who meet this target and examine the efforts of those who miss the mark. Make DEI goals mandatory at every level of your organization.

Be prepared for those who will supplement the definition of DEI efforts with other issues they’re more comfortable with.

Instead of discussing hiring and promoting racial and ethnic minorities, they may direct the conversation to “English proficiency” or “sexual orientation.”

Although these are important DEI subjects, refocus their attention on the more uncomfortable subject of racial/ethnic diversity.

RECOMMENDATION 8: READ WIDELY To truly understand what it means to be a minority in this country, read books

by Black and Brown authors. Read many of the outstanding works of Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Harriet Washington, Isabel Wilkerson, Robin DiAngelo, and Maya Angelou to name a few amazing writers who will help you on your journey to “getting it.” Read the works of Tim Wise, one of the most prolific writers on racial disparity issues (who happens to be White).

Books can immerse you in the author’s world, if only for a fleeting moment, granting you vital insight.

To really feel it, you must read it!

RECOMMENDATION 9: DON’T BE SMUG

You are not “the liberator.”

Whatever you do, don’t fall into the trap of assuming the “smug air” that some leaders develop when they decide to “tackle the diversity problem.” This isn’t the act that will get you into heaven, and you must never view this as a charity venture. Remember, you were always telling me that charity breeds inferiority.

Tell yourself, “I am doing this for me as much as for them.” In other words, this is a self-help journey for you and the White majority.

Although it may seem like DEI is a minority problem, if you look deeper and with sincere eyes, it is an American problem.

We need DEI initiatives because opportunities are skewed away from a particular group in our society. The fancy word for that is structural racism, but I don’t have time to talk about that in this letter (which is already too long!).

We’re better when we’re all better. Also, never assume that you can intellectualize the DEI experience. No matter how smart or liberal you are, you’ll never truly know the profound feeling of isolation associated with being the only Black physician in a department, the only Hispanic nurse on the intensive care unit, or the only Muslim medical student or resident in your training program. You can never understand the soul-destroying weight of occasionally being “mistaken” for a cleaner, patient transporter, or trainee (especially when your trainee is standing beside you!). This lack of understanding is a privilege. Recognize

and acknowledge your privilege and never be ashamed of it. However, don’t allow the shining brilliance of privilege to blind you. I am not equating privilege to an easy life.

So, when it comes to DEI, assume you know nothing and always be ready to learn. Remember these sage words of Epictetus (the slave philosopher): “It is impossible to learn that which we think we already know.”

RECOMMENDATION 10: BAN MANDATORIES It’s time to get rid of those pesky mandatories that lock you out of your e-mail or computer if you miss the deadline. I recognize the value of programs like implicit bias training; diversity workshops; and color-blind, color-brave, color-neutral initiatives, but you cannot legislate a mindset. These fancysounding words are meaningless if we don’t recognize that we have a structural, societal problem. Medicine is but a microcosm of our society.

We were all formed in the churning cauldron of that broader society before we ever began our careers in the health industry. In place of mandatories, suggest a “book of the month club” to your staff and award token prizes to all who participate. We learn more from books than we can ever hope to learn from those mandatories. Finally, congratulations again on your new appointment!

I know you’ll do great things. Just remember— DEI work isn’t a sprint, it’s a marathon. But the Extension Connection November 2023

reward is more than worth it! Please know that these suggestions are not prescriptive. They are merely practical tips, and they may not apply to all practices. Despite living the minority experience, I don’t have all the answers.

Indeed, we should always be suspicious of those who claim to have all the answers. Still, I hope you’ll find some useful nuggets in my recommendations.

Adapted from: Nafiu, Olubukola. “So, You Want Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion? Ten Practical Tips for Establishing Sustainable Change.”

The Open Mind 137, no. 4 (February 22, 2023): 772–76. https://doi.org/10.1213/ ANE.0000000000006489.

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OLDER ADULTS

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Does pain make it hard to be active?

Physical activity can ease pain and help you feel better. If you’re recovering from an injury, listen to your body and do what feels right for you. Walking is a good way to start.

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Balance activity can lower your risk of falls — and your risk of an injury if you do fall.

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Find tips and videos to help you get moving at health.gov/MoveYourWay Build your weekly activity plan at health.gov/MoveYourWay/Activity-Planner

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COLLEEN MCKEON - A LIFE WELL LIVED activities including parties at her horse farm, and horse drawn carriage rides in the snow at Christmas.

This past month our Agricultural and Horse Colleen was a pillar in Community suffered the the horse community. Her loss of Colleen McKeon, achievements began when formerly of Woodbourne, she was young, thriving New York. Throughout in competitive reigning her life, Colleen touched shows. One of her biggest many people throughout achievements in horse both industries, whether showing, was winning it be farmers through her the 1985 Individual Youth ag business roles; young Reigning Class at the Allpeople through her horse American Quarter Horse programs, or as a friend.

Congress. Colleen then I reached out to some of transitioned into showing her students from when in western pleasure and she was a riding instructor hunter under saddle. in Sullivan County, and so Colleen bred and raised her many said exactly the words show horse “Cool Rappin above.

Daddy,” aka Skippy, with whom she successfully Bridget Glinski, one of her former students, shares with competed with. Eventually, us some of her background: Colleen decided to open her own riding school, “Colleen was an avid where she taught and member of the horse community. She was a long- trained many 4-H members how to ride. Most recently, time leader of the Hobby Colleen moved to Saratoga Horse Kids 4-H Club. As County with her son, Trevor leader, Colleen helped Osterhout, and fiancé, arrange and schedule Aaron Tetlak. Upon moving, events and activities, Colleen made the decision primarily focusing on to go back to her roots and the horse industry. Some take up her passion for of the activities the club reigning again with her participated in included horse, Badger.” educational clinics, 4-H I personally got to know horse shows, tours of the Colleen through working different horse industries with horses and watched in the area, including the her not only reach personal Harness Racetrack and goals, but those of her Museum in Goshen, and students she shared her the Monticello Raceway. passion of riding with.

The club also took part Colleen was involved in in other more casual club CCE Sullivan through many Barbara Moran, 4-H Program Manager and Aaron Denman, Operations Coordinator

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different paths as a 4-H Leader of Hobby Horse Kids, as an employee of CCE Sullivan, and as a 4-H mom to her son Trevor. As I have read over so many tributes to Colleen, many words keep resonating such as “a true horsewoman,” kind, sweet, polite, a great friend, “a kindhearted genuine person,” and so many more.

Aaron Denman shares some words about Colleen: “I met Colleen at a point in my life when I’d felt at a standstill in my 4-H career.

She took me under her wing and over the years taught me so many of the crucial lessons I know now, not just about horses, but about life and fighting for your passions. I’ve achieved many goals, received many awards both inside and outside of 4-H, but all these years later making her proud stands out in my mind as one of the greatest achievements of them all. I am forever grateful to her for everything she’s taught me and am honored to have been her student. Thank you, Colleen.”.

Colleen touched so many lives throughout hers. She will be dearly missed by the agricultural and horse community, as her long-time friend Audrey Diehl Reith said, “the industries were her passion.” May she rest in peace.

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CARING FOR CAREGIVERS Written and submitted by Nancy McGraw, Caregiver Resource Center Program Coordinator

November is National Family Caregivers Month (NFCM), a time to recognize, honor and celebrate family caregivers and the contributions they make. This year’s theme is #CaregiversConnect.

Many people would not identify themselves as a “caregiver.” If you provide unpaid care to a family member, friend, or neighbor who has an illness, disability, memory loss, injury, or special need, you are a caregiver!

As the population in the U.S. ages, more people are providing unpaid caregiving tasks to help individuals remain in their home or living situation as long as possible. These can include helping with meal preparation, bathing, dressing, trips to the pharmacy for medications, shopping, various errands, and by providing rides to medical appointments.

Caregivers, for the most part, are family members who provide unpaid help to their loved ones, often because they have no choice. AARP estimates that in 2021, family caregivers provided 36 billion hours of care valued at $600 billion to the economy. Paid caregivers are often too expensive for Page 22

most families, and the home care workforce shortage means they are not available to families who can afford them (AARP, 2023).

One of the most common problems a family caregiver faces is trying to juggle their job responsibilities with their caregiving responsibilities.

“Up to 60% of family caregivers are employed and juggling other personal or family obligations, and the majority of them have had to make some adjustments in their work life because of their caregiving role. The majority of caregiving tasks also often fall to women, who are also likely to be caring for children, older parents, and working outside the home” (AARP, 2023).

Caregivers report higher levels of stress than people who are not caregivers. Over time, the responsibilities of caregiving can lead to burnout, frustration or even depression. It is well supported by research that when family caregivers reach out for assistance, they are better able to take care of themselves and their loved ones. This can result in better health and quality of life for both the caregiver and the care-receiver (Trualta, 2023).

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connections as a way to get information about your loved one’s disease or condition, share experiences, get support, or form a closer bond with your loved one.”

CAN offers an online toolbox with caregiving tips and resources https://www. caregiveraction.org/.

The Caregiver Resource Center (CRC) is a program offered in partnership

by CCE Sullivan and the Sullivan County Office of the Aging. Caregivers can call the CRC for general assistance, and for referrals to area agencies that can provide services appropriate to their unique situation.

We invite you to explore our updated Caregiver Resource Center web pages (https://sullivancce.org/ home-family/caregiverresource-center), to find out about what we offer, including weekly and monthly Caregiver virtual support groups, upcoming workshops on dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, and one-on-one individual assistance and referral by phone or in person.

Additional programs are planned in the spring.

You can reach the Caregiver Resource Center Program Coordinator at (845) 2926180 ext. 122 / nam247@ cornell.edu or by emailing sullivancrc@cornell.edu for general information.

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