Cornell Cooperative Extension Oneida County Master Gardener Volunteers and Child Care Council are together participating in All America Selections Landscape Design Challenge this season.
Long Island has become nearly unaffordable for large swaths of the middle class, not to mention those living under or close to the "structural" poverty line and unable to afford basic essentials.
Rochelle John has thought about leaving Long Island, but, she says, "To go to another state that I don't know anything about, where I don't know people, that's another hard thing."