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Fund Drive Seeks

$200K For Garden

Education Center

Project Includes Rain Garden,

Greek-Revival Meeting Shed

Here's the plan the education center Otsego County Master Gardeners hope to construct on 1.3-acres at the Cooperative Extension property on Lake Street, Cooperstown.

By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

COOPERSTOWN – Eight years in the planning, $200,000 in fundraising is beginning on an Education Center on Lake Street  to expand the offerings of Otsego County's Master Gardeners organization.

"The 'Grow With Cornell Cooperative Extension' plan will reconfigure our grounds into a center for garden-based learning with an impact that will reach throughout our county," said Jason Stone, board president of the Cooperative Extension of Schoharie & Otsego Counties, who operates a topiary garden on Bissell Road, Town of Otsego.

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