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Speaker Bureau
Cornell University Cooperative Extension Broome County and Cutler Botanic
Gardens offers speakers on a variety of topics on a time-available basis.
Please schedule at least eight weeks in advance.
These presentations vary from 30 minutes to one hour in length, but
can be adapted to suit the audience. Audience participation is encouraged.
Speakers Bureau Topics
Presented by Renee M. Schloupt Horticulture Educator
This is Cutler Botanic Gardens
A visual tour of Cutler Botanic Gardens that will show the various areas
of this beautiful Broome County Resource. Learn how a group of New York
State Master Gardeners work together to design and care for this local treasure
and how you can become involved.
The Garden Medicine Cabinet
Many plants in your yard and garden can be used to relieve common everyday
ailments, such as colds, stomachaches, minor cuts and scratches. Learn which
plants can be used for which purpose and how to find/grow them.
All-America Selections
Cutler Botanic Gardens is an All-America Selection Display Garden. Learn
what this means and see some of the wonderful, often exotic, annuals and
vegetables that you can grow successfully here in Broome County.
Additional Speakers Bureau Topics
Several Master Gardeners are also available for presentations. Topics
include:
- The History and Development of Cutler Botanic Gardens
- Growing Herbs
- Perennial Gardening
- Container Gardening
Contact Renee M. Schloupt, Extension Educator, at 772-8954 x 128 or
rms34@cornell.edu for availability.
Speaker’s Bureaus are available free of charge, however, a donation
to Cutler Botanic Gardens is greatly appreciated.
