GARDENING – COMMUNITY GREENING – COMPOSTING

– Urban Ecology with Keith Tidball, kgt2@cornell.edu Extension Associate   , Initiative for Civic Ecology, Dept. of Natural Resources , Campus 254-5479 H- 315-568-9710

• Community Gardening Brochure – Build on the work of a project group from green Cities class and help complete a community gardening brochure for our area.
• Urban Forestry- Participatory research o trees and neighborhood resilience
• Human/wildlife interactions , ask Keith

– Greening our Schools: Dan Flirlage danflerlage@hotmail.com 277-0538

Teachers for a Sustainable Future and LACS (Lehman Alternative Community school) have projects such as greenhouse development, website development, curriculum development, that need help

– Tompkins County Master Composters

Adam Michaelides - Compost Education Program Coordinator

272-2292 acm1@cornell.edu

This is a large group of student and local volunteers working through Cornell Cooperative Extension. Volunteers do composting outreach at schools, festivals, and other events. Through composting, the Ithaca Farmer’s Market committed to zero waste production this past summer. New volunteers are trained from February through April and several opportunities exist to learn along side this group during the spring. Assistance is also requested for improving the design of our zero waste recycling and composting bins and helping with zero waste outreach.