AGRICULTURE Risks and rewards of growing overwintering vegetables Recipes, cooking videos and field reports can be found on the Eat Winter Vegetables Project website. Photo credit Shawn Linehan. Heidi Noordijk hosted a session on growing purple sprouting broccoli, cauliflower, and Read More
AGRICULTURE NWREC hosts Oregon winter vegetable trials Clint Taylor and Heidi Noordijk of the OSU Small Farms Program grew eight crops and 79 varieties of overwintering vegetables and storage crops at the NWREC. The OSU Small Farms Program grew eight Read More
AGRICULTURE Meet Jenifer Cruickshank with OSU Dairy Extension Jenifer has a PhD in Dairy Science and is a native of Oregon, where she grew up on a dairy and field crops farm. Jenifer Cruickshank joined Oregon State University Extension Service Read More
AGRICULTURE Adaptation, the theme at Small Farm School 2021 Small Farm School participants got their hands dirty while estimating soil moisture by feel during the irrigation class. The 10th annual Small Farm School 2021, was a blend of in-person outdoor Read More
AGRICULTURE Harvest Dinner Returns to NWREC The Harvest Dinner is a premiere regional event, celebrating one of Oregon’s key industries – agriculture. It returned to NWREC last October with some modifications to dining and seating due to COVID. Everyone was Read More
COMMUNITY AND URBAN HORTICULTURE Get the Real Dirt! Garden Guidance for YOU! Get the real dirt, on successful gardening techniques, by subscribing to our OSU Extension Service Master Gardener™ ‘Get the Real Dirt’ eNews. Receive guidance to cultivate sustainable and Read More
COMMUNITY AND URBAN HORTICULTURE Gardening support is just a click, call or email away This past year, hundreds of gardeners in Clackamas County found the support and guidance they needed for their gardening queries and challenges, through the metro area Read More
COMMUNITY AND URBAN HORTICULTURE Grow an Extra Row project fills critical need Compost bins under construction at GAER garden, with OSU Master Gardeners (from left to right) Priscilla Robinson, Eve Freeman, Kathy Krentz, Nancy Muir, Will Hughes, and Kirk Pearson. Read More
COMMUNITY AND URBAN HORTICULTURE ‘Fall into Gardening’ and ‘10-Minute University’ go virtual 10-Minute University went virtual this year, engaging over 10,000 viewers. Navigating another year of challenges, how do you continue to engage and inform a community clamoring for sustainable Read More
FAMILY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH FCH staff shifts work to help with emergency response efforts While SNAP-Ed and other FCH direct delivery programming was put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic, FCH staff stepped out of their educator role and Read More