Country Living Newsletters
2009 Newsletters
January 2009 (cold weather complications, global bio diversity is in decline, a cucurbit affair (melons, squash, pumpkins & cucumbers), virtues of snowberries, you, your livestock and winter)
February 2009 (pruning, spring gardens, spring and fall frost dates, nature deficit disorder, cabbage, winter living in rural areas, grass fed beef, grass tetany season, heifer calves undervalued, managing in a tough economy)
March 2009 (gardening tools and advice, voles/meadow mice, boron, protect yourself when weeding, cucurbits, Vernonia hope, invasive plant species, cattle comfort, selenium, grass tetany, Spring Garden Fair)
April 2009 (soil temperature, starting corn, winter damage unfolds, rose types, plan now for fall pasture seeding, control tansy ragwort, livestock chores, melon madness event, Spring Garden Fair)
May 2009 (garden diversity, root-bound transplants, thinning apple trees, crust damaged carrots, blueberry virus, managing deer, livestock grazing, calf scours, tough plants/slopes)
June 2009 (protecting fruit from birds, thinning your seedlings, pinching and pruning, rain barrels, okra, bees, water and energy, caterpillars and bird conservation, selling lambs, hay, condition of your pasture)
July 2009 (blossom end rot of tomatoes, seed starting bulletin, sheet vs. loose organic mulches, apple maggot season, carrying capacity and stocking rate, canning classes offered)
August 2009 (food preservation hotline, harvesting potatoes, summer care for sick cherry and plum trees, rats and compost, watering vegetables in hot weather, fall and winter garden, we do not have brown recluse spiders, the cinnabar moth reappears on tansy ragwort, cow/calf low stress management, introductions of new staff)
September 2009 (tips for new lawns, whitewash and sunscald, tomato late blight, oxygen and vegetable roots, seed saving basics, quince, japanese knotweed biocontrol, bitten by something, local hay, fertilizing fall pastures, fall worming, fall weed control, canning information)
October 2009 (all about fruit show, important new insects, grapes for cooler climates, raising stocky tomato starts, fall weeds, incredible edibles, cedar flagging, when trees age, male and female trees?, soil sampling and phosphorus, planning to prevent grass tetany, some important tools, climate change series)
November 2009 (Master Gardener class in Vernonia, dark bean seeds better for cool soils?, glyphosate damage through bark, herbs for the kitchen, the Meier site lecture, woody debris, what's the real bottom line?, sheep production basics, climate change seminar)
December 2009 (All-American flower selections for 2010, winterizing your garden, plan your garden, are we imprinted for lawns, chestnuts, OSU salmon research, organic certification cost share, selenium and pastures, why pastures have weeds, Christmas tree care)
2008 Newsletters
January 2008 (winter weeds, walnut husk fly, Oregon white oak, weather stress on livestock, goats/sheep for weed control)
February 2008 (pruning grapes, new garden beds, planting new forests, fertilize pastures, calving, grass tetany in beef)
March 2008 (cardboard for weed control, slug patrol, epsom salts for the garden, paper wasp, selenium deficiency in sheep/cattle, US beef production per cow, sprouting grain for livestock, vaccines and immunity)
April 2008 (squeeze soil before rototilling, mason bees, common garden myths, last frost, replanting natural areas, calf scours)
May 2008 (heat loving crops, patronize our local growers, renovating lawns, poison oak, livestock/horses grazing after a tough spring, adjusting horses in spring pasture)
June 2008 (apple thinning, can grass stunt a tree, boron and fruit trees, trouble with herbicides, planting near a walnut tree, broom beetle not a miracle cure, controlling tiny ants, global demand for animal protein, disposing of dead animals)
July 2008 (summer transplanting, when landscape trees die, winter gardening, harvesting garlic, blossom end rot of tomatoes, Marshall strawberry, global warming and pests, don't feed raccoons or other wild animals, thistle control after hay-making, what is a fair pasture rent, get the ram ready)
August 2008 (tomato late blight, spider mites, dripping trees, irrigation, flying termites, garden clones, urban farming and gardening, a caterpillar in your cabbage, biomass is hot, renting pasture land, summer pneumonia, face flies, livestock summer stress)
September 2008 (corn biology, strawberry patch renovation, winter mulch or cover crop, new slug/earwig/sowbug product, food or fuel, predicting time of calving, fall pasture fertilizing, wheat straw and grain nutrients, the beef market, agroforestry)
October 2008 (first fall frost, fall fruit tree care, storing garden produce, pruning, saving vegetable seeds, why new plants die, white oak conservation, cattle benchmarks, fall and winter grazing)
November 2008 (mushrooms in lawns, voles are a winter problem, rusted hollyhocks & snapdragons, homestead dairy cow, weed control in November, salt needs of livestock, poison hemlock, bare ground for bees, keeping silt and manure out of ditches and streams)
December 2008 (rose talk, copper sprays for fruit trees, how to improve soil, starting seeds and cuttings indoors, nature walks and ADHD, healthy eating could reduce mental disease, best ways to cope with high feed costs)
