Introduction

Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) is committed to educating stakeholders about climate change and helping citizens implement the strategies that are needed to adapt to and mitigate impacts. Gardeners everywhere are seeing the impacts of the changing climate on their gardens. Gardening means dealing directly with drought conditions, flooding and water-logging; unseasonable cold and freezing conditions; increases in new pests; changes in plant diseases; variability in heat and hardiness zones; and extreme weather events. This Gardening in a Warming World session aims to prepare volunteers as they are increasingly called upon for information in the face of this new gardening challenge.

By actively participating in Gardening in a Warming World, you will:

  • Understand systems thinking as it applies to your garden system.
  • Be familiar with the basics of climate change.
  • List current and future possible impacts of climate change on New York State.
  • Identify ways to manage gardens to mitigate and adapt to climate impacts.

All the materials you will need for this section (and more) are found at http://gardening.cals.cornell.edu/garden-guidance/gww/

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