Spring Planting at OASIS Farm Center
May 21, 2016
This year's Cornell Cares Day was held at the OASIS Farm Center, a vocational training facility for young adults with autism, in Middletown. | |
From left: Rob Poggioli (farm manager), Judy Reichard, Peggy Milliken '84, Bruce Wagner '64, Art Kretchman MBA '85, George Schildge '60, Janie Schildge, Cliff Fishman '70. Missing: Annie O'Rourke '84 and her son. |
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Cornell volunteers worked at the OASIS Farm Center, a vocational training facility for young adults with autism, in Middletown, NJ. At this event, we prepared a vegetable farm field for planting, doing light manual work such as digging garden beds, breaking up natural debris, weeding and spreading mulch. After work at the firm, we enjoyed a picnic lunch. |
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Judy Reichard and George Schildge | Cliff Fishman fills a small weed bucket... |
... and hauls away a barrel of weeds | |
Janie Schildge with Rob Poggioli | |
Art Kretchman and Bruce Wagner compare weeding styles | |
Art prefers a cross legged position... | |
... Bruce wields a hoe... | ... while Janie Schildge adopts a kneeling-on-one-knee pose |
The field before weeding... | |
... and after | |
Ready for planting! | |