Cornell Cooperative Extension (New York City)

The Cornell Cooperative Extension based in New York City is focused on improving urban food systems and green spaces while providing support for family and youth development. The Extension offers programs in horticulture and ecology focused on the city's parks and green spaces and a Hydroponics Learning Model Program - a course designed to teach a useful urban agriculture method invented at the Extension while developing students' critical thinking skills. Also working to provide healthy food education, the Extension engaged over 76,000 people in its nutrition and health programs in 2013.