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Earth Day Celebration

Saturday, April 16th, 2011

Join OSU Extension Service Master Gardeners on Saturday April 16th for a family friendly Earth Day Celebration.  The fesivities will include free food, plant starts, music, door prizes, children’s activities, educational booths and gardening workshops. 

OSU Extension Service Master Gardeners will be available to answer any home gardening questions. 

The celebration is being organized in conjuction with the Learning Gardens Laboratory, OSU Extension Service, Portland Community Gardens and Portland State University.

Come join the celebration!                                                           

When: Saturday, April 16th, 11am to 1pm

Where: Learning Garden Laboratory at Green Thumb, 6801 SE 60th, between SE Duke and Flavel Street

Cost: Free!

Who: Everyone Welcome!

 

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Speaker Series: Genetically Modified Plants – Their Biology, Uses and Potential Concerns

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

Genetically modified (GM) organisms, plants, crops, and food are definitely in the news these days with recent decisions from the US Secretary of Agriculture and the federal courts. The Multnomah County Master Gardeners Speakers Series: Genetically Modified Plants – Their Biology, Uses, and Potential Concerns examines the complex world of genetically modified crops and plants in a straight forward way. This presentation will explore the science that led to genetically modified plants, take a look at their role in agriculture and horticulture. Plus, delve into some of the issues and potential concerns about their use.

Chip Bubl an OSU Extension Service Horticulturist and a perennial favorite instructor at Master Gardener trainings offers a research-based discussion on this complex subject. This is great opportunity to learn and ask questions. Please join us.

When: Tuesday, February 8, 7pm

Where: Mt. Tabor Presbyterian Church, 5441 SE Belmont St., parking on 54th. Enter on west side of building.

Cost: Free!

Who: Everyone is welcome!

Presented by: Multnomah County Chapter of the Oregon Master Gardeners Association

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Come have fun in the garden!

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

Gardeners of all levels, ages and interests are invited to jump into the action with the Multnomah County Chapter of OSU’s Extension Service at the Master Gardeners Community Demonstration Garden in Southeast Portland. Our Summer Saturdays program continues:

Saturday, June 19, 11am-1pm: Taste the harvest, bring your old boots and shoes to boot camp, take home your own painted rock garden mulch

Visit the demonstration garden, ask Master Gardeners questions, and get ideas for your own garden.

The Multnomah County Master Gardener Community Demonstration Garden is at 6801 SE 60th Ave., Portland, OR (across from Brentwood Park between SE Duke and SE Flavel)

Future Summer Saturdays include:

  • Saturday, July 17, 11am-1pm: Explore the trees in our arboretum tour, enter the world of worms
  • Saturday, August 21, 11am-1pm: Pizza party at the pizza patch: hot salsa, cool drinks
  • Saturday, September 25, 9am-2pm: Plant sale, fall harvest, swap recipes and tomato tasting

The Community Demonstration Garden is run by the Master Gardeners Program, an OSU Extension Service program. The focus of this garden is on teaching the local community how to use safe, sustainable gardening practices to grow food and native plants. The garden serves the local community, acting as a community resource that helps spread the use of sustainable gardening practices, increases local food production and security, improves the local ecosystem, contributes to self-sufficiency, and creates and strengthens community relationships.

For more information about the Multnomah County Master Gardeners, visit www.metromastergardeners.org, or call (503) 445-4608.

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Speaker Series: Honey Bees: Their Importance and Current Plight. Speaker, Ramesh Sagili, Oregon State University

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Honey bees pollinate more than 90 different crops in the United States, and honey bee pollination is estimated to be worth more than $20 billion. Recent honey bee colony losses attributed to colony collapse disorder and a steady decline in colonies for the past two decades have caused serious concern and alarm. This presentation will focus on the importance of honey bees as pollinators and current problems with honey bee health. Also, some suggestions on how to help honey bees and bees in general will be provided.

Ramesh Sagili

Ramesh Sagili is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Horticulture at Oregon State University. His primary research focus at OSU is honey bee health, nutrition and pollination. His appointment also includes extension, and, hence, he works closely with the state stake holders i.e. both beekeepers and producers. His goal is to establish a vibrant and dynamic honey bee research and extension program at OSU that will cater to the needs of beekeepers and producers in the state.

When: Tuesday, June 8, 7pm

Where:  Mt. Tabor Presbyterian Church, 5441 SE Belmont St., parking on 54th

Cost: Free!

Who: Everyone is welcome!

Presented by: Multnomah County Chapter of the Oregon Master Gardeners Association

Coming up in September:  Uncovering Compost Mysteries.  Speaker Carl Grimm, Metro.  Tuesday, September 14

 

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SPEAKER SERIES: EDIBLE GARDENING IN SMALL AND/OR INHOSPITABLE SPACES, SPEAKER MARC BOUCHER-COLBERT, URBAN AGRICULTURE SOLUTIONS, LLC

Friday, May 7th, 2010
Rooftop Gardening

Marc Boucher-Colbert, Rooftop Gardening

Quite often as gardeners we are forced to utter a version of the serenity prayer: “Help me to accept the things I cannot change.” Concrete, contaminated or unworkable soil, lack of available light: these are all seemingly insurmountable challenges to growing food. Using innovative adaptations of container gardening, many of which were developed on the rooftop of Noble Rot restaurant, Marc Boucher-Colbert offers ideas about how to transform ‘previously ‘wasted’ spaces into productive vegetable gardens.

Marc Boucher-Colbert is currently Garden Specialist at Franciscan Montessori Earth School in Portland, OR. He also runs Urban Agriculture Solutions LLC, which provides creative garden solutions for city gardeners. Urban Agriculture Solutions’ most notable ongoing project is the three-year-old edible rooftop garden on the Noble Rot restaurant (1111 E. Burnside, Portland, OR), which Boucher-Colbert designed for the late Rocket restaurant and continues to maintain for Noble Rot. For years he operated Urban Bounty Farm, a community-supported farm in Portland and helped start Portland’s Zenger Farm in its current incarnation as an urban agricultural park and education center. He lives in NE Portland with his wife and two children.

When: Tuesday, May 11, 2010, 7pm

Where:  Mt. Tabor Presbyterian Church, 5441 SE Belmont St., parking on 54th

Cost: Free!

Who: Everyone Welcome!

Presented by: Multnomah County Chapter of the Oregon Master Gardeners Association

Photo from Edible Portland:
http://www.edibleportland.com/2008/06/portlands_new_w.html

Coming up next month…June 8, Ramesh Sagili, OSU, Subject: Honey Bees Their Current Plight

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Get your hands dirty and learn from Master Gardeners at Earth Day Celebration at the Community Demonstration Garden.

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

Saturday, April 17, 2010, 11:30 AM – 3:30 PM
Multnomah County Master Gardener Community Demonstration Garden
6801 SE 60th Ave., Portland, OR (across from Brentwood Park between SE Duke and SE Flavel)

Gardeners of all levels, ages and interests are invited to jump into the action at a celebration of Earth Day with the Multnomah County Chapter of OSU’s Extension Service at the Master Gardeners Community Demonstration Garden in Southeast Portland.

  • See the community demonstration garden
  • Visit with master gardeners and get your gardening questions answered
  • Get in at the beginning of the summer sunflower house
  • Start a pizza patch
  • Learn some wacky garden science
  • Take home your own seedlings
  • Free!

The Earth Day Celebration kicks off an exciting new series of summer long events in the garden, called Summer Saturdays. Future events include:

  • Saturday, May 15, 11am – 1pm: Build a scarecrow, plant the pizza patch, learn how to create terrariums
  • Saturday, June 19, 11am-1pm: Taste the harvest, bring your old boots and shoes to boot camp, take home your own painted rock garden mulch
  • Saturday, July 17, 11am-1pm: Explore the trees in our arboretum tour, enter the world of worms
  • Saturday, August 21, 11am-1pm: Pizza party at the pizza patch: hot salsa, cool drinks
  • Saturday, September 25, 9am-2pm: Plant sale, fall harvest, swap recipes and tomato tasting

The Community Demonstration Garden is run by the Master Gardeners Program, an OSU Extension Service program. The focus of this garden is on teaching the local community how to use safe, sustainable gardening practices to grow food and native plants. The garden serves the local community, acting as a community resource that helps spread the use of sustainable gardening practices, increases local food production and security, improves the local ecosystem, contributes to self-sufficiency, and creates and strengthens community relationships.

For more information about the Multnomah County Master Gardeners, visit www.metromastergardeners.org, or call (503) 445-4608.

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