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Tips for low-income gardeners?

Q: I have a 10x10 community garden plot for a family of 4. I want to do the best I can to supplement our SNAP dollars with food from my garden. Thanks in advance for your help!

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Extension taps Hibbard-Swanson for new food safety and security position

Jared Hibbard-Swanson is OSU Extension's inaugural program manager for food security and safety.

Chris Branam | Apr 4, 2022 | News story

Seed to Supper

Seed to Supper is a beginning garden course focused on reducing food insecurity in Oregon. Learn more about the program, and how to become an official Seed to Supper provider.

Gail Langellotto, Tyler Spofford, LeAnn Locher | Project Peer reviewed (Gray level)

When a Crisis Revives the Dead: A Community Comes Together to Create a Food Pantry

Just when you thought that program was dead in the water and you wondered how you would finish that final grant write up....boom! Catastrophe strikes just in time to engage its revival. The story of the establishment of the Boardman Food Pantry was a tale such as this.

Anna Browne | Jan 2021 | Video

Garden box project helps increase food security for Warm Springs families

The Grow Where You Are project is helping tribal members on the Warm Springs reservation grow their own food at home through garden kits.

Chris Branam | Dec 7, 2020 | News story

Small Farms, Local Food, and Wildfires

Resources and referrals gathered about current wildfire evacuation and air quality information and livestock and produce safety during and after disasters.

Teagan Moran | Sep 2020 | Online resource

OSU Extension helps launch long-needed Boardman Food Pantry

The pantry, which didn't exist before March, is distributing weekly meal boxes to more than 100 families.

Chris Branam | Sep 1, 2020 | News story

Lane County Master Gardeners donate thousands of vegetable starts to help people grow their own

Most of the 2,200 starts that went to the organizations were vegetables so that gardeners can supplement their food supply with fresh produce.

Kym Pokorny | Jul 10, 2020 | News story

Online application for SNAP benefits

SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) is a federal program that helps millions of low-income Americans put food on the table. Apply for SNAP benefits online

Apr 2020 | Online resource

Dig into hundreds of publications from OSU Extension online catalog

Have a gardening question? Find an answer in one of OSU Extension's publications.

Kym Pokorny | Nov 22, 2019 | News story