- Interested? Email elizabeth.records@oregonstate.edu
- Work with staff, intern and a small-medium group of volunteers to create blogs and social media, based on OSU Garden Calendar and Master Gardener Program Priorities.
- Work with staff and intern to review posts for copyediting, quality sources and consistency with OSU style guide.
- Work with Extension staff and intern to publish posts to program blog
- Create social media posts from blog highlights, using Canva templates provided.
- Bonus activities: identify volunteer activities that tie into garden calendar items and enhance posts with video or photos from events.
- Shoutouts
- Camellia with unhappy leaves – Plant Problem Show and Tell from trainee Jennifer Bond. Trainees – you can write one of these and earn plant clinic credit right now! Send in a Plant Problem Show and Tell. Report service as Plant Clinic: Direct or if you are a continuing volunteer, as Continuing Education.
- Returning volunteers – need a replacement badge? Order them HERE.
- NEW! Trainees and returning volunteers! – Through the Garden Gate Tour needs volunteers. Train on 6/11, then volunteer on 6/18. Learn more and sign up HERE.
- Trainees and returning volunteers! Linn County Pop-Up Plant Clinics need people to “talk plants” with our communities. Upcoming dates at Farmers Markets and more to come.
- Sign up HERE.
- Interested in scheduling booth at the Lebanon Farmers Market? Please contact Elizabeth.
- Save the dates:
- PNW Gardening Series returns
- May 19: Don Lyon — seed starting
- June 2: Rich Little — insects
- PNW Gardening Series returns
- Volunteers needed
- Trainees welcome – Demo Garden: Join us for work parties at the Linn Demo Garden on Wednesdays and/or Fridays from 1:00-3:00. Get volunteer hours by helping make the Demo Garden look great.
- Speakers’ bureau – are you an organized, outgoing person interested in helping connect interested volunteers with community organizations needing gardening education? Please contact Elizabeth Records.
- Find ongoing and anytime opportunities on the Linn Volunteer Opportunities Page
- Continuing education opportunities: Growing Oregon Gardeners – Level Up 2022:May 10: Growing Great Roses!
- Community news (Please note that anything in this section is not eligible for MGV volunteer service nor endorsed by Extension, but is mentioned as a courtesy to our community.)
- Save the date for the 21st Annual Through the Garden Gate tour! Saturday June 18th, 202210:00 to 4:00, Six unique & artful Albany gardens. Tickets on sale June 1 at linnmastergardeners.com
- El laboratorio de abejas melíferas de la OSU y el OSBA presentan el programa de apicultor maestro de Oregón en español. Aprenda la biología de las abejas melíferas, el manejo de colonias estacionales, la producción de miel y más. No se necesita experiencia y no es necesario tener su propia colmena. ¡Y es GRATIS! Nuestros días de campo le presentarán el fascinante mundo de las abejas melíferas. Le prestaremos un velo y analizaremos las colmenas de abejas vivas. Aprenderá cómo manejar adecuadamente sus colonias con un enfoque en la salud, la nutrición, y la hibernación. Asista a los 3 días de campo (21 de mayo, 9 de julio y 10 de septiembre), reciba clases en línea y lleve registros. Responda una prueba al final del año y recibirá la primera certificación en el Programa de apicultor maestro de Oregón. Los días de campo se llevarán a cabo en el Apiario educativo de Oak Creek de la OSU en Corvallis. Le enviaremos detalles al registrarse. El espacio está limitado a 25 participantes. ¡Inscríbase hoy mismo! Los participantes deben ser mayores de 18 años.¿Está interesado? Inscríbase AQUÍ ¿Preguntas? Contacte a Carolyn Breece a carolyn.breece@oregonstate.edu
