Plant Sale Has Deep Roots in Otsego County

Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Otsego Master Gardener Volunteers’ Annual Plant Sale took root a quarter century ago, in May 2000, when the OMGVs offered a perennial plant sale and free pH soil testing at the Cooperstown Farmers’ Market. Since that first sale, the proceeds from the annual plant sale have supported OMGV efforts to provide education and outreach to the community.

Elaine Nahman, who has been an OMGV since 1994, explained that, for many years, most of the plants sold at the plant sale were perennial divisions from the OMGV’s personal gardens.

“The days before the Japanese jumping worm certainly enabled us to offer some darn nice-size divisions and a wide variety of plants,” Elaine noted.