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12.05.2020 Columns

Guest Spot: Family Health and Wellness of Cornell Cooperative Extension needs your help

The Family Health and Wellness educators received devastating news recently. The 2021 Suffolk County budget reduced FHW funding to 0%, thereby eliminating funding for the entire department. For decades...

10.07.2020 Agriculture

Meet Vanessa Pino Lockel, the new executive director of Cornell Cooperative Extension

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County recently welcomed Vanessa Pino Lockel as its new executive director. Ms. Lockel, a Miller Place resident, began in the role Sept. 1, replacing...

03.05.2019 Education

The Work We Do: Kerri Reda, Cornell Cooperative Extension

My name is Kerri Kreh Reda. I’m a Human Development Specialist for Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County. This summer, I will have been here for 19 years.

07.29.2017 News

Cornell program promotes buying local fish

The marine program operated by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County received a grant of $65,000 to launch its Local F.I.S.H. project, which promotes eating fish caught locally on...

07.18.2016 Agriculture

North Fork kelp could become the next big commercial crop

While leafy greens like kale have become a popular snack for healthy eaters, there could soon be a new food everyone on the North Fork is buzzing about: seaweed.

02.28.2016 Community

A behind-the-scenes force, Susan Wilk is our Public Servant of the Year: Video

On Thursday, we presented Susan Wilk of Cornell Cooperative Extension with our Public Servant of the Year award at a ceremony at Martha Clara Vineyards. This is the video we screened during...

01.07.2016 Community

2015 Public Servant of the Year: Susan Wilk

Standing at the intersection of Main Street and Roanoke Avenue in Riverhead, you’re a short walk from no fewer than three of Susan Wilk’s projects.

04.28.2015 Health & Environment

Think you spotted a tick? Click the TickClick app

Is that a tick on you or on your pet? Are you sure? What kind of tick? Cornell Cooperative Extension has developed a free app called “TickClick” to download...

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