Advertisement. Advertise with us

Soil Turned Behind Cooperstown Elementary

As Kid Garden Gets Underway For 7th Season

Mohican Farm's Bob Sutherland shovel mulch to be laid on the Kid Garden beds behind Cooperstown Elementary. (Jim Kevlin/allotsego.com)
Mohican Farm’s Bob Sutherland shovel mulch to be laid on the Kid Garden beds behind Cooperstown Elementary.  Assisting are Melanie Brewer, left, and Antoinette Kuzminski.  (Jim Kevlin/allotsego.com)
Otsego 2000 Executive Director Ellen Pope instructs first-grader Dierdre Domine, 6, in planting carrots.
Otsego 2000 Executive Director Ellen Pope instructs first-grader Dierdre Domine, 6, in planting carrots.

COOPERSTOWN – A dozen volunteer gardeners are at work at this hour, preparing the soil for the seventh season of the Kid Garden behind Cooperstown Elementary School.

Angela Farone, who assumed leadership responsibility from Kristen Griger this year, said “everything” is being planted, from carrots and kale, to “lots of lettuce” and acorn and butternut squash.

The Clark Foundation’s Mohican Farm on Route 80 has been growing seedlings in its greenhouses, which youngsters will plant behind Cooperstown Elementary two weeks from now, Farone said.

Over the summer, fresh produce will be provided to the Cooperstown Food Pantry; in the fall, it will be served in the school cafeteria.

Posted

Tags

Related Articles

News from the Noteworthy: Bennett: A Garden Cannot Grow Itself

T’nette Kuzminski was a prodigious gardener, of plants and of people. Her love, labor and imagination brought “The Life of the Land” column into being three years ago. Her idea was to write about small family-run farms applying innovative agricultural practices to grow healthy food, and, importantly, affording the farmers a living—something difficult in today’s world of corporate agriculture.…
September 26, 2024

Happenin’ Otsego: 04-28-24

GARDEN—1-4 p.m. Kid Garden Community Work Day. Kid Garden, Cooperstown Elementary School, 39 Linden Avenue, Cooperstown. coopkidgarden@gmail.com or visit https://www.cooperstowncs.org/o/cooperstown-csd/page/kid-garden GARDEN—1 p.m. Join local 4-H members for spring cleaning of the Community Garden. Springfield Library, 129 County Road 29A, Springfield Center, (315) 858-5802 or visit http://libraries.4cls.org/springfield/…
April 27, 2024

HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO: 05-25-23

HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, MAY 25 Discuss Opera ‘Candide’ with Glimmerglass Festival Music Director TALKING OPERA—7 p.m. Join Glimmerglass Festival Music Director Joseph Colaneri for a discussion on “Candide,” which he is conducting. Held at Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. E-mail guild.of.glimmerglass.festival@gmail.com or visit glimmerglassguild.org…
May 24, 2023

PUTTING THE COMMUNITY BACK INTO THE NEWSPAPER

For a limited time, new annual subscriptions to the hard copy of “The Freeman’s Journal” or “Hometown Oneonta” (which also includes unlimited access to AllOtsego.com), or digital-only access to AllOtsego.com, can also give back to one of their favorite Otsego County charitable organizations.

$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice: Friends of the Feral-TNR, Super Heroes Humane Society, or Susquehanna Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 

Visit our “subscribe” page and select your charity of choice at checkout

SUBSCRIBE