AGRICULTURE Hundreds Gather to Celebrate Local Farming and Food Oregon Governor Kate Brown visiting with OSU President Ed Ray at the 2019 Harvest Dinner. The 8th annual Harvest Dinner at the North Willamette Research and Extension Center (NWREC) last September Read More
COMMUNITY AND URBAN HORTICULTURE Got Gardening Questions? Do you have gardening questions? OSU Extension Service Master Gardeners™ are at the ready to answer your gardening conundrums. Email, phone, or drop into the Master Gardener Clinic, weekdays from 9 am-noon and Read More
4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT Spring Break Day Camp Provides 4-H Workshops for Youth 4-H programs often fill the gap between home and school education, building critical life skills. 4-H Spring Break Day Camp at the Clackamas County Fairgrounds provided a week Read More
COMMUNITY AND URBAN HORTICULTURE Gardening Provides Therapeutic Benefits for Veterans The Master Gardener program is excited to be collaborating with a budding new program through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Portland Health Care System. In 2019, a cohort Read More
AGRICULTURE OSU Launches Global Hemp Innovation Center OSU researchers planted hemp plants at NWREC and other university experiment stations located in different climates and soil conditions throughout Oregon. Hemp material will be harvested as the plants are flowering and will Read More
COMMUNITY AND URBAN HORTICULTURE OSU Master Gardeners™ – Trained Community Educators Master Gardener trainees use lots of helpful techniques to learn how to identify weeds. Master Gardener studying an insect during a Master Gardener hands-on workshop. In the winter months, Read More
AGRICULTURE Gaining New Skills and Connections at Small Farm School 2019 Evaluating moisture by feel in the Small Farms school compost class. Small Farm School is an educational event that celebrates the innovation and diversity happening on small farms in Read More
4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT 4-Hers Show off Wide Variety of Skills at the Clackamas County Fair 4-H has been a part of the County Fair longer than the corn dog. If you’ve never stopped by, we encourage you to visit the Read More
FORESTRY AND NATURAL RESOURCES Forest Becomes Classroom for Hundreds of Homeschool Students Mike Bondi, with OSU Extension Service, shows a student how to use a Clinometer to measure tree heights. More than 400 homeschool students and families gathered for the Read More
FORESTRY AND NATURAL RESOURCES Selling Forest Carbon Provides Added Benefits Jon Stewart says his goal is to show small woodland owners that there are ways to actively step forward to address climate change. A walking tour last summer of Raincloud Read More