General Information

• Prospective gardeners can reach out at any time to be added to our mailing list. The mailing list is used to communicate important dates and direct people to reserve plots
• There will be an optional meeting for club members and officers in the early spring
• All of our members must complete a "Best Gardening Practices" gardening class provided by Cornell Cooperative Extension. We intend to make recordings of the session available for people who can't make it in person. We will record an attestation that each gardener reviewed the material
• Gardening can begin after the fields are plowed and plots are marked. Usually early-mid May, although very wet weather can delay our access to the gardens.
• Staking to mark the plots will be sometime in late April or early May. Volunteers are needed!
• Gardens must be cleared by a date (TBD) in mid October immediately followed by a volunteer clean-up effort so that the the fields can be prepared for the next season.
• Fields are plowed each fall and disked each spring by Cornell Farm Services. We rotate gardening between the north and the south fields every two years. The 2020 season is our first season in the south field. The other field is cover cropped with winter rye in the fall, interseeded with clover in the spring and mowed in the late summer of the first fallow year. The clover remains as cover for year two and is incorporated back into the soil at the end of year two.
• Full Details of our license agreement with Cornell including expectations, rules and operating procedures: 2019 Cornell Community Gardens License