Patty Stimmel

Ag & Garden Educator
315-684-3001 ext. 108
patriciamae@cornell.edu
Agriculture, Administration, Environment, Gardening

Patty Stimmel grew up in rural north central Indiana surrounded by corn and soybean fields and her mother’s vegetable garden. She wandered her parents 60 acres by foot and by 4-wheeler, identifying plants, birds and other wildlife and gathering wild things for crafting, eating and making teas. She grew and tended a medicinal herb garden while still in high school, creating concoctions and using her parents as guinea pigs. She graduated from Purdue University with a degree in Public Horticulture in 1999. Her adventures took her to Pennsylvania, Maine, back to Indiana, and finally to New York where she started a small self-sufficient farm focused on doing everything by hand and growing fruits and vegetables. Her focus is to provide small scale agricultural, ornamental/small homestead horticulture and self-sufficiency programming to Madison County residents. She is also coordinator of the Master Gardener Volunteer and the Seed to Supper programs and the voice behind the Spotify podcast: Fridays with Patty - hot helpline topics from the Master Gardener Volunteer helpline.