Interesting insects, brilliant blooms, smiling faces – anything to bring some cheer!
- Shout outs
- Congratulations, Erin Steinke! Erin persisted through the challenges of the past 20 months and earned Master Gardener certification! Thank you Erin for your contributions to Oregon Season Tracker, plant clinic help, engagement with LCMGA and all you do!
- Vote for LCMGA board members by 11/23! LCMGA members will get a link and password to vote securely online.
- Volunteers needed
- Nov 9-19 LCMGA Annual Mason Bee Cocoon Cleaning in Sweet Home. Put on some old, warm clothes for this outdoor, hands-on fundraising event preparing mason bee cocoons for sale. Report service as: Fundraiser: support.
- Find ongoing and anytime opportunities on the Linn Volunteer Opportunities Page.
- Continuing education: It’s nearly winter so things are quite. Take a moment to learn something new in our huge library of recorded webinars.
- Growing Oregon Gardeners Level Up Series (Monthly webinars on timely topics – recording available in the link.)
- Elevated Master Gardener Series (Grow your community gardening educator skills with people and technology.)
- MG Advanced Training webinar series
- Online gardening classes (fee) by OSU’s PACE division (Professional and Continuing Education)
- Portland Metro Master Gardener webinar series. See Continuing Education tab for more anytime options!
- Extension updates:
- Master Gardener applications for 2022 are open, with a new more flexible schedule and sliding scale pricing. Know someone who is ready to step up as a gardening educator or plant clinic researcher? They can find more information and apply HERE. Applications are coming in fast – folks who apply sooner have a better chance of joining us next year.
- Helpful this week: Training and Pruning Your Home Orchard. Provides general rules for training, pruning, and limb bending, and explains open-center, central-leader, and espalier training. Outlines specific guidelines for training and pruning apple, pear, sweet cherry, sour cherry, peach, prune, plum, apricot, fig, persimmon, walnut, hazelnut, and chestnut trees. Includes 17 figures that illustrate various techniques.
- 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.)
- None this week – please share opportunities for future eNews.
