- Shoutouts
- Volunteers needed 6/18: Quilts in the Garden Plant Clinic. Join this fun event and sign up HERE. Or attend Quilts In the Garden: Enjoy a huge display of impressive quilts in five private gardens. Admission is $10 and includes a tour of all five gardens. Purchase tickets in person at local quilt shops.
- 6/18: 21st Annual Through the Garden Gate tour! Saturday June 18th, 2022, 10:00 to 4:00, Six unique & artful Albany gardens. Tickets on sale June 1 at linnmastergardeners.com
- Rich Little entomology desk sessions Thursdays 9-11:30 – learn how to identify and solve insect issues with longtime MGV Rich, a retired entomologist, and coordinator of BEEvent Pollinator Conference. Sign up with Rich on the Benton plant clinic schedule and bring a sample insect or insect-damaged plant.
- Volunteers needed –
- Online Plant Clinic – check for messages on evenings and weekends. Volunteer from anywhere with an internet connection. Enroll HERE.
- Office Plant Clinic sign-ups open: The office is open to the public, and volunteers can sign up for plant clinic shifts as desired, to answer client questions or practice skills. Pairs of volunteers can currently sign up in the front office again! Sign up HERE. If you’re a trainee, please wait to connect with a mentor, before enrolling.
- Farmer’s Market Clinic Table! 2nd Saturday and 4th Wednesday of each month. Certified Master Gardeners are required to give advice but trainees may volunteer as well. If enough people volunteer, we can have two shifts. Please contact Debbie Lauer at 541-929-7544 or DSL2017@peak.org to sign up.
- NEW: Plant Clinic at State Fair 9/3 – 9/4, Salem OR. Volunteers get free wristbands and parking permits. Sign up HERE.
- Trainees and other Volunteers are Welcome at the Fairgrounds Demonstration Garden. Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m. You can access the garden through the RV park entrance to the Fairgrounds. Sign-up is not required and drop-ins are welcome. If you would like more information, please contact Denise Saunders at vdenisesaunders@comcast.net or Dan Dix at ddix@verizon.net
- Find more opportunities on the Benton Volunteer Opportunities Page.
- Continuing education opportunities:
- OMGA – Joy of Gardening Conference Mini-College will be held July 28-30, 2022, live at OSU Campus! Learn more and get tickets.
- Growing Oregon Gardeners – Level Up 2022:
- 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.)
- 6/30: LCMGA classes in the Demo Garden – Planting Your Garden 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Albany, OR
- In memory: Linn County Master Gardener Carolyn Larime passed away June 6, 2022. Carolyn was an active Master Gardener since 2015. She was one of two Master Gardeners responsible for starting the Willamette Community Garden in Albany, Oregon. Carolyn was recognized as Linn County Master Gardener of the Year in 2018. Master Gardeners – share your memories of Carolyn.
- Open House: Oak Creek Center for Urban Horticulture Jul 26, 2022 11:00 am – 2:00 pm. 844 SW 35th St Corvallis, OR 97333. Save the date for our open house and tour at the Oak Creek Center for Urban Horticulture. Open to the public; families welcome!
