FAMILY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH Partnering to Address Hunger Challenges in Estacada Schools “Partnering with OSU Extension Family & Community Health is like quadrupling our staff with the best and the brightest!” — Debra Bufton, Estacada Area Food Bank Family and Read More
FAMILY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH Leading the Way in Oregon Farm-Direct Product Education A sampling of products produced by small farmers and sold under the Farm-Direct Marketing Law. Salsas, canned fruits, jellies, and pickled vegetables are on the rise at local Read More
FAMILY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH Promoting Healthy Lifestyles with Apple Pressing Hundreds of kids lined up for their turn on the old fashion apple press during the 8th annual cider event at the Oregon City Farmers Market. Nothing says fall like Read More
FAMILY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH Snap-To-it! Program Makes Farmers Market Accessible to Everyone Melissa Streng (right), of Sun Love Farm in Oregon City, shares produce tips during the “Know Your Farmer Know Your Food” tour at the Oregon City Farmers Market. Read More
FORESTRY AND NATURAL RESOURCES Growing your Forest, Wood Products, or Christmas Tree Business Extension Forestry Agent Glenn Ahrens, (Clackamas, Marion, and Hood River counties) explains the objectives and results of selective logging to sustain a multi-aged stand at Hopkins Demonstration Read More
FORESTRY AND NATURAL RESOURCES New Forestry Outreach Center Planned for Hopkins The Forestry Outreach Center will be a demonstration of the latest advanced wood technologies, including cross-laminated timber, mass plywood, glue laminated beams and energy efficiency in residential-scale construction. Every Read More
FORESTRY AND NATURAL RESOURCES Education Outreach at Hopkins Demonstration Forest Hopkins delivered environmental education and forestry programing to well over 5000 visitors in 2018. Hopkins Demonstration Forest encompasses 140 acres of Douglas-fir and western redcedar forest, just eight miles south Read More
FORESTRY AND NATURAL RESOURCES Teachers Become Students in the Woods Teacher in the Woods participants piled into rafts for a white-water learning adventure through an area recently affected by a wildfire. The Teacher in the Woods program, hosted by Hopkins Read More
FORESTRY AND NATURAL RESOURCES Hopkins Demonstration Forest Hosts Future Natural Resource Leaders Over 200 students from 12 high schools around the state gathered at Hopkins Demonstration Forest in May for a two-day state convention focused on career opportunities in forestry Read More
FORESTRY AND NATURAL RESOURCES Woodland Leaders Show the Way Loren and Sylvia Bowman and their Estacada Delph Creek Tree Farm were recognized with the Evergreen Award for their long devotion to the practice and promotion of tree farming. Some of Read More