WEEK 6: 4-H Cultivating Community
As excited as I am to be back in Ithaca about to start my senior year, the end of summer was quite bittersweet. I can hardly believe Cultivating Community 2024 is over! On our ...
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Project Summary and Future Directions
It has been a wonderful experience to work as a summer intern for Cornell Cooperative Extension and connect my current research with real-life actions. This summer, I worked intensively on a research project that ...
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WoFo Global Café Conversation on Climate Change and Young Children
One of my field advisors, Richelle, shared with me this wonderful event that talk about climate change education for young children. I was very stunned to see educational practices that focus on children around ...
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Equity, Sustainability, and Empathy: Markets Eleven and Twelve
For my final two markets I tabled at the Owego Farmers Market and the Freeville Farmers Market. Over the course of the summer, it has been made evident to me that farmers markets are ...
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Disillusioning the Food System: Markets Nine and Ten
For markets nine and ten I spent my last week tabling at the Auburn Farmers Co-op Market. A root issue I see facing food system reform is the dramatic disconnect between people and the ...
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Promoting Local Prosperity: Markets Seven and Eight
For market seven I joined Jaime Welch at the Broome County Regional Farmers Market for joint FMNP and Broome County Veterans Resiliency Project tabling. For market eight I provided solo education at the Freeville ...
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The Importance of Relationship Building: Markets Five and Six
I conducted education at the Auburn Farmers Co-op Market for markets five and six. This market has a small, but close knit community of vendors. I have learned a lot about the importance of ...
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Spurring Culinary and Promotional Creativity: Markets Three and Four
Market three, at the Yates County Cooperative (Penn Yan) Farm & Craft Market, was my first solo market. For market four, I collaborated with Aly Trombitas, Agriculture & Horticulture Educator for the Tompkins County ...
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Farmer’s Markets as Community Keystones: Markets One and Two
Hello everyone! My name is Lilly Smith and I am a rising junior in the College of Human Ecology. I am a Global & Public Health Sciences major on the pre-dietetics track. My aspirations ...
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WEEK 5: 4-H Cultivating Community
I can hardly believe there is only one week left of this program! Monday was a typical day at the M.K. Gandhi Institute. We did some gardening and litter pick-up before the rain sent ...
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Week 10
Hello, and welcome to the final week! It has definitely been a fun and rewarding experience, and it seems like the time has flown by! This week, I have been running ANOVAs to examine ...
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Week 9
Welcome to another blog post! This week, I ran and analyzed ANOVAs, also known as analysis of variance, for my data. The ANOVAs are a different kind of analysis than the descriptives and correlations ...
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