Paul Szmal: And FLX Morning continues here on Finger Lakes News Radio, 839, temperature at 42 under sunny skies. Couple of familiar voices joining us now as we have a visit with our friends from Seneca County Cornell Cooperative Extension, the host of the Finger Lakes Agricultural Report, Jodi Wright is here. Good morning, thanks Paul. And Ryan Stachok is here from Seneca County Cornell Cooperative Extension as well.
Ryan Staychock: Yeah, good morning to you and all the listeners out there.
Paul Szmal: And Jodi, I want to start with you because there is a big celebration night that is coming up on October the 7th, that is less than a week away.
Judy Wright: You're right. Our final preparations are underway for our Celebrate Seneca County Ag Night. We're really excited to host this this year at Fall Street Brewing, which is in Seneca Falls, and we're going to open the doors at 5 and go until 7 and are looking forward to welcoming anybody that's really interested in joining us in this celebration. We'll be sampling some local produce and also foods that are being prepared with local produce using our Farm to School and SNAP-Ed recipe. So there's a lot going on. And in addition to that, we're really excited to have some local food purveyors on hand that are going to be sampling their unique products. And Kugel Lake Wine Trail is again joining us to do some wine tasting. So this will be a real celebration of farm to table in its truest form.
Paul Szmal: That's our intent, yes. The exciting part about being at Fall Street Brewing is that we'll have the restaurant to ourselves for this event, but they are going to be offering for purchase some of their wood-fired pizzas. And also, obviously, brewing, they do make some local craft beverages. Yeah, as a matter of fact, I just talked to Brad from Fall Street Brewing for the Chamber Business Spotlight that'll be airing this coming Wednesday here on FLX Morning. And it sounds like, man, he's got to be one of the busiest people I think I know now.
Judy Wright: I have to agree with you. He is really excited about what's going on within his community and has a lot of good ideas and a really good business going. So we're really excited to be partnering with him for the Celebrate Seneca County Ag Night on October 7th. And again, that's at Fall Street Brewing Company. That's 97 Fall Street, Seneca Falls, runs from 5 till 7 on Tuesday, October the 7th. And it's free to one and all.
Paul Szmal: Correct. Ryan, let's talk about the Seneca County Electronics Waste Recycling and Document Shredding event that is coming up. This is a little bit later this month, but we want to give people advance notice so they can start gathering their materials.
Ryan Staychock: Yeah, that's right. Every year, Seneca County, along with Seneca County Cornell Cooperative Extension and Seneca Meadows partner to put on this great event on the last weekend in October, usually the last Saturday in October. So it's really a great partnership between Seneca Meadows, Seneca County and Seneca County Cornell Cooperative Extension. And this event will take place as it did last year on Saturday, last Saturday in October from 9 a.m. until noon. And I emphasize that, Paul, because it doesn't start at 8 a.m. So if people are going to start showing up, we don't want you to show up too early because we're getting things set up. Every year, people are so excited to recycle their electronics that they show up early. And sometimes it causes a little bit of confusion and chaos. And so it starts at 9 a.m. through noon. It's going to be at the same location it has been for the last couple of years, up at the Seneca County office building, which is in the north parking lot over on 1 Depronio Drive, but right off of North Road over there. We're asking people to bring your electronics entering from the North Road entrance.
And what's cool about this program is that there's no registration necessary for the people in Seneca County. You do not have to register, you just have to collect your items, put them in your car, come on over to the Seneca County building, stay in your car, you'll be greeted by me and you'll probably see Judy there also and Abe and Nancy from Cornell Cooperative Extension and then some staff members from Seneca Metals help people unload the electronics right out of your car so you could stay right in your car. And then if you have documents shredding also, then that's a separate little system. But we'll be there to help people direct them to the great locations.
Paul Szmal: Now let's drill down a little bit more into the exact items that are considered acceptable electronics for this, Ryan.
Ryan Staychock: Yeah, thanks Paul. That's a really important question. Every year things keep changing, so I appreciate that we're going to have this conversation. You know, the acceptable electronics include, there's a couple major categories. The first category is like computers and accessories. So for example, monitors, keyboards, even your cables can be recycled at this particular electronics recycling event. Then we have a good topic like such as entertainment equipment, including all televisions, not those old broken tube ones, but like more modern electronic televisions, flat screens we may call them. Any speakers you may have, any old game consoles that your family and your house has had around, you can recycle those. Mobile devices is another category, such as cell phones, old cameras, MP3s can all be recycled. Another topic is data center equipment, like routers and servers that help bring internet into your home. Those things can all be recycled. Web and medical equipment, such as old CPAP machines, defibrillators, other items such as that. There's also office equipment like old printers, security equipment, old answering machines if people even have them around anymore, Paul, we'll see. And then any other miscellaneous items like wires, holiday lights, you can bring those old holiday lights and have them recycled. Old power tools and other small home appliances, small home appliances.
So if you have any questions about what is recyclable, you can find that at our CCE website at senecacountycce.org or you can go to the sunking.com website and they're the actual people that are organized to come in and recycle the electronics and they're right out of Brock Port, New York. And again, this event, by the way, last Saturday of the month, Saturday, October 25th, 9 a.m. to noon, north parking lot of the Seneca County Office Building at 1 Depronio Drive, Waterloo.
Paul Szmal: There are some items that are not being accepted, Ryan, things like large appliances, any devices containing refrigerant, household batteries, vaping devices, as you mentioned, old tube TVs and devices that contain any kind of liquids or mercury. So we want to just give people a heads up. Those items will not be accepted here, but the items that you mentioned on the list there certainly are accepted.
Ryan Staychock: That's correct. Yeah. Thanks a lot, Paul. And yeah, many of those items, some of those items are not, please do not bring any washers or dryers, nothing really, no large appliances and specifically, you know, nothing with refrigerants. We get a lot of questions about what to do with old air conditioners and you can certainly reach out to me through CCE if you have questions about that. But also with confidential documents too, we organize, we get this company, Shred Tax to come in and we try to encourage people to bring your old tax bills, things you don't want, that you want to see destroyed right in front of your eyes. Bring those confidential documents. They can have rubber bands on them and light paper clips and staples. But we do ask that if you remove any binder clips and if there's any three ring binders, just take the paper out of those. We don't like to really recycle and throw into this big shredder these pieces of metal that might clog it up. So please don't bring any junk mail either. No junk mail or things that are going to clog the system. You can actually recycle junk mail, non-confidential files and newspapers right in your blue bins in Seneca County.
Paul Szmal: Yeah, and they usually collect every couple of weeks on those, right?
Ryan Staychock: That's right. That's right.
Paul Szmal: Okay. So that is again the recycling event coming up on Saturday, October 25th, including the document shredding. And again, SenecaCountyCCE.org if you missed any of the details on the items that are being accepted for that.
There's also, this sounds kind of fascinating to me, a shiitake mushroom log inoculation event that is coming up.
Judy Wright: Yeah. I'm really excited about this. And Paul, you and your listeners may know that I serve Cayuga County, Schuyler County and Seneca County, but you know, Seneca County is my favorite, Paul. You know that for sure. But at least today on this radio show it is. And I like to bring programming to all three counties. And this is one of mine that's kind of near and dear. I'm a forester by training and shiitake mushroom log inoculation workshops are going to try to help people, teach people how to take a red oak log. And you can use other hardwoods, but we're going to be using red oak logs and we're going to be learning how to use them to inoculate, drill holes in the red oak logs, put mushroom spawn in them, seal them up. And then we're going to learn how you can grow shiitake mushrooms doing that. We're going to have Connor Youngman, who is our agroforestry and mushroom specialist from the Cornell Small Farms Program. He's going to be there to teach people about specialty mushrooms and he's going to guide participants through the process of inoculating red oak logs with shiitake mushroom spawn. So it's a really cool program. We're going to offer it in Cayuga, Schuyler and Seneca.
The cost is $25 per person, but that includes, you get to take your red oak log home that you can grow your own mushrooms. It's going to include all the handouts and all the spawn and supplies necessary to do that. We're also going to provide cheese pizza for people because the program starts at 5 p.m. and it's going to go till 7 p.m. starting Wednesday, October 29th in Schuyler County. And then on Thursday, the following day, we're going to have the exact same program in Seneca County on Thursday, October 30th at Vince's Park in Seneca Falls, New York. Again, that's from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, October 30th. It's a Thursday. And then finally, for people that may want a weekend option, we're going to offer the exact same program in Cayuga County on Saturday, November 1st up at the Sterling Nature Center from 10 a.m. till 12 p.m.
So again, registration is required for that because we have to procure all the logs and all the mushroom spawn. And so please register for that program. It's $25 a feed and includes your red oak log and some cheese pizza slices and good company and learn how to make specialty mushrooms right here in Seneca Falls.
Paul Szmal: And finally, to wrap things up here this morning, Judy, I wanted to mention the Fall Fun Day at the Seneca Community Gardens that's coming up.
Judy Wright: Yes, we're really excited. Our Master Gardener volunteers are joining with 4-H program to host a fun day at the Seneca Community Garden, which is in Seneca Falls. And people will be talking about how to put your garden to bed. There'll be nutrition sampling, also arts and crafts activity, some mural paintings going to happen as well. And we have a really fabulous face painter coming for anybody that wants to have their face painted. So that's happening on Sunday, October 19th from 1 to 3 p.m. And it sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun.
Paul Szmal: Yeah, it certainly does. All right. Okay. That's all the time we have, unfortunately, for this morning. Judy and Ryan, thank you so much for filling us in. And again, if you want to find any more information about what we talked about here, you can go to the website, which is SenecaCountyCCE.org. That's SenecaCountyCCE.org. Again, Judy, Ryan, thank you for joining us this morning.
Judy Wright, Ryan Staychock: Thanks for the opportunity. Cheers, everybody.
Paul Szmal: It is 8.52 on FLX Morning.
