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Extension faculty, staff, and trained volunteers work alongside local partners to provide educational workshops, activities, and services tailored to the unique industries, natural resources, and people in our communities.

Oregon State University's land grant mission drives us to conduct research and share research-based education to improve economic vitality and promote personal and environmental health.

We're solving real problems with people and community partnerships.

• Knowledge, networks, and market access improve agricultural success and food systems resilience
• Resilient ecosystems build and sustain our outdoor economy and increase livability
• A skilled workforce attracts businesses and infuses profit potential
• Healthy residents reduce reliance on county services and improve overall population health
• Youth and family programs foster essential skills for life, leadership, and careers

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Family and Community Health

Our Family and Community Health team partners in communities to promote healthy nutrition, food safety and security, physical activity, behavioral health and well-being, emergency preparedness, community resilience, and more.

Hood River County

4-H Youth Development

Building confidence, resiliency, and civic mindedness in our youth. Cultivating positive youth development through youth and family programs that foster essential skills for life, leadership, careers, health, and community.

Hood River County

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Home Garden and Landscape

Supporting gardeners through trainings and opportunities to learn and share knowledge with the community. Providing education through research, technical support, trainings, expert advice, and community demonstration gardens.

Hood River County

See also: Hood River County Master Gardeners

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Tree Fruit Production and Pest Control

Promoting profitable and sustainable tree fruit production and pest control through trainings, research, technical support, community outreach, and expert advice.

Hood River County

Forestry and Natural Resources

Ensuring our forests are resilient and continue to provide the wide array of benefits that we treasure - now and always. Supporting woodland owners, communities, and industry in natural resource management through trainings, ...

Hood River County

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Farm to School and school gardens in Hood River County

We connect the cafeteria, classroom and community so kids, farmers, and communities thrive. OSU’s research-backed farm to school activities improve economic opportunities, public health, academic achievement, youth development and ecoliteracy in every county in Oregon.

Hood River County

Programs offered

• Coast to Forest: The Coast to Forest program builds on community strengths to promote mental health and reduce substance use in rural Oregon. Browse statewide and county-specific resources. Relevant for all audiences.
• Home Food Safety and Preservation Program: OSU Extension Family and Community Health ensures Oregonians have access to the most reliable information available on safe food handling at home. We offer food safety and preservation resources and classes, including our Master Food Preserver program.
• Hood River County 4-H: The mission of the 4-H program is to help young people build competence, confidence, connection, compassion and character as they learn and grow.
• Hood River County Master Gardeners: Information about the Master Gardener program in the Central Gorge, including gardening resources, and how to join the program.
• Master Woodland Manager: The Master Woodland Manager training is a master's level course for landowners who are interested in an intensive forest management training and sharing the knowledge gained through this training with people in their local communities. Graduates of the program have been serving Oregon for 40 years.
• Open Campus (in English): OSU Open Campus is the educational bridge that connects Oregon State University to people of all ages — whether that involves college access, career exploration or community vitality.
• Oregon Forest Pest Detector: Oregon Forest Pest Detector volunteers help prevent the damaging impacts of invasive forest pests by monitoring for and reporting potential infestations. Volunteers are important in early detection and rapid response to control efforts.
• Oregon Season Tracker: Oregon Season Tracker aims to link natural resource managers, educators, researchers and others through collaborative community science. We seek to understand weather patterns and how plants and other living things in our ecosystem respond and adapt across diverse Oregon landscapes.
• OSU Small Farms: The goal of the Small Farms program is to improve the economic and environmental sustainability of small farms by employing appropriate scale production and marketing techniques.
• Outdoor School: OSU Extension works in collaboration with schools, partners and communities to administer funds to support and grow the statewide Outdoor School program for Oregon’s 5th and 6th grade students.