Upcoming Events
Saturday, May 10th 2008
- Deadline for Submission of Items to the Gardeners Pen
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The Gardeners Pen is the OMGA (Oregon Master Gardener Association) newsletter. If you are a county Master Gardener Association or a Master Gardener who would like to submit an article of photo for
the June 2008 issue, please send them to Laura Swanson (editor). Your local Master Gardener Association will be able to provide Laura's email address, for submissions.
- Central Gorge Master Gardener Plant Sale
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Great plants! Great prices! Perennials, shrubs, herbs, vegetables, and more. Come early for best selection. A selection of used gardening books will also be for sale.
Thursday, May 15th 2008
- 2008 Pruning Classes
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http://extension.oregonstate.edu/lane/sites/default/files/documents/prune08.pdf
- Horning Lecture - Steven Shapin, Harvard University
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In late 2007 the Oxford University Press anointed "locavore" Word of the Year. The word was made up in 2005 by some San Franciscans who thought it a good idea to eat only foods produced within a 100
mile radius. Their view is that we should be locavores because it is good for the palate and good for the planet. They also tend to believe that we should reject modern globalization and return to
the local ways of the past. But have locavores gotten their history right? This lecture explores how medical and moral traditions from antiquity to recent times have thought about local and exotic
diets and reflects on changing conceptions of the self and the place of food in our lives.
Steven Shapin is Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. His books include Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life and
Wetenschap is cultuur (Science is Culture), both written with Simon Schaffer, and A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England and The
Scientific Revolution. Shapin’s newest book The Life of Science: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation will appear in September 2008. Shapin writes regularly for the London
Review of Books and recently for The New Yorker.His current research interests include historical and contemporary studies of dietetics, the nature of entrepreneurial science, and
modern relations between academia and industry.
Saturday, May 17th 2008
- Lincoln County Master Gardener, 8th Annual Spring Garden Sale
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The sale features vegetables, flowers, shrubs, special tomatoes for the local climate, and lots of unusual plants. A garage sale with garden-related items, and soil pH testing with donation will be
offered. Admission FREE.
- 2008 Pruning Classes
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http://extension.oregonstate.edu/lane/sites/default/files/documents/prune08.pdf
- Coos County Master Gardener Association 5th Annual Tomato-Rama and Plant Sale
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Sunday, May 18th 2008
- Coos County Master Gardener Association 5th Annual Tomato-Rama and Plant Sale
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Thursday, May 22nd 2008
- JAMS & JELLIES
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Instructor: Master Food Education Volunteers Come learn to preserve summer’s bounty of fruits, berries--and even peppers—by making your own jams, jellies and preserves. Learn the factors that make a
successful gel product, and learn what can cause that not-so-perfect one. More importantly, learn the safety factors to prevent foodborne illness in your jellied products.
Saturday, May 31st 2008
- Wasco County & Central Gorge Master Gardeners, Garden Tour
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“Sun Splashed & Wind Washed” A tour of gardening East of the Mountains. Learn how much can be done with sandy-clay soils on windy slopes and steep hillsides in strong winds, harsh winters and
sweltering summers. Prepare to be delighted! Plant sale & garden art offerings
- 2008 Pruning Classes
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http://extension.oregonstate.edu/lane/sites/default/files/documents/prune08.pdf
Saturday, Jun 7th 2008
- Klamath County Master Gardener Association Plant Sale
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- OMGA Board Meeting
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The Multnomah County Chapter will host the 2nd quarterly meeting of the Board of the Oregon Master Gardener Association. Chapter representatives and alternates will be presenting chapter reports.
OMGA business will be discussed. All OMGA members are invited to attend.
Tuesday, Jun 10th 2008
- Pendleton Ag Research Center Field Day
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Annual agricultural field day for producers, ag consultants, teachers, agency personnel, students, OSU faculty and staff, WSU faculty and staff, and UI faculty and staff. USDA-ARS and OSU scientists
from Pendleton, present information via field tours and demonstration on new and on-going work. Refreshments and lunch provided. Dress for outdoor activities.
Sunday, Jun 22nd 2008
- Tillamook County Master Gardeners
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Wednesday, Jul 23rd 2008
- Gardener's Mini College Leadership Forum
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The leadership forum of the Gardener's Mini-College will support and develop the capacity of Master Gardener volunteers to serve in an elected or appointed office within their local Master Gardener
Association, or with the Oregon Master Gardener Association. You do not have to hold the office to participate.
Thursday, Jul 24th 2008
- 25th Annual Gardener's Mini College
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Attend classes delivered by experts in home horticulture and gardening, tour local gardens, and get acquainted with other gardeners in an informal and relaxed atmosphere.
Friday, Jul 25th 2008
- 25th Annual Gardener's Mini College
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Attend classes delivered by experts in home horticulture and gardening, tour local gardens, and get acquainted with other gardeners in an informal and relaxed atmosphere.
