Join us for the March Cortland Ag Coffee Hour "How are YOU?" with Kate Downes from NYFarmNet. The focus of this coffee hour will be conversation and discussion, time to catch up and touch base with other farmers in our community.
Sadly this event will be online until further notice - or the weather warms up enough for us to sit outside and enjoy each other's company once again.
(Kate Downes is the Outreach Director at NY FarmNet helping grow and sustain successful farm operations and healthy farm families throughout New York. In her role, she's become a leader on issues of rural and farmer mental health and works cooperatively to provide resources and support systems to the agricultural community. Kate's work is shaped by a passion for community and an agricultural connection spanning back to her childhood. Kate holds a Master of Science in Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development from University College Dublin, Ireland, and a Bachelor’s degree from the SUNY Cobleskill. Kate is a LEAD NY Class 18 Fellow, serves on the advisory boards of NY Agriculture in the Classroom, and the Forest Learning Collective. Her husband, kids, cat, dog, rabbits, and chickens live on the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary lands of the Onondaga Nation, a member of the six-nation Haudenosaunee (ho-dee-no-show-nee) Confederacy, known also as Central NY - where she balances it all by seeking opportunities to get outdoors, craft, listen to podcasts, and figure out what just came in her CSA box.)
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