Cobleskill

Yeah, I'm going to be doing Pontillo's show.

Then I'm going to be going up to Cobleskill at a place called the Bull's Head Inn in Cobleskill, New York.

If you want a ticket for that one, too late.

Sells out.

Um, she's the agroforestry and natural resources program manager at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Columbia and Greene Counties Agroforestry Resource Center and Sicella, I don't know if I'm saying that right, Model Forest.

She graduated from SUNY Cobleskill's Plant Science and Horticulture bachelor program, worked on the world's largest wild simulated ginseng farm, and manages her own forest farm.

She's the co-chair of New York State Agroforestry Program work team and educator of general forestry and agroforestry topics such as deer browse, mushroom cultivation, ginseng production, plant and mushroom identification, as well as foraging classes.

And let me see if I can get her on.

So, so well, before we get into that, what got you into natural resources or agroforestry or all of the above? What got you into this?

Yeah.

So I was at, um, SUNY Cobleskill studying plant sciences.

I was really interested in food production.

"Yeah, that's Doug Stephan.

He's on the radio." Uh, 'cause I'm on a radio station in the town where the, uh, we, our program, this one, is on a radio station that I used to own, actually, up in, uh, Cobleskill, New York, WSTE.

And, uh, so, um, [laughs] he was talking about, um, some of the stuff that we talk about.

He had a little quick quip about, uh, some of the things.

Um, uh, me and you are very similar in age, uh, uh, as far as, uh, back in '93, '94.

Been to a bunch of parties up in Cobleskill, and there was always that drunk girl, you know, who had way too many, and nobody ever took advantage.

We had respect back then.

A- and these, uh, uh, these kids today, uh, they just, they, they depend on daddy, I guess, or something like that.