- Shoutouts
- Official BCMGA Board for 2022
- President: Jana Tindall (2013)
- President Elect: Mary Mellard (2—7)
- Past President: Deb Kern (2013)
- VP Programs: Janet Magedanz (2012)
- Membership: Deborah Hobbs (2018)
- Co-Secretary: Cynthia Roler (2020)
- Co-Secretary: Wendi Gale (2021)
- Co-Treasurer: Lynn Trimpe (2012)
- Co-Treasurer: Paula Lupcho (2007)
- OMGA Rep: Rich Taylor (2012)
- OMGA ALt. Rep: David Mandel (2016)
- Communications Liaison: Bob Smythe (2011)
- Member at Large: Frank Garcia (2020)
- Alan Taylor (2015)
- Fred Prahl (2016)
- Official BCMGA Board for 2022
- Volunteers needed
- NEW! Staffing the booth at the Corvallis Farmers market is a fun way to talk to the community about gardening. Volunteers needed for Farmers Market Coordination: Please contact Debbie Lauer ifinterested. Please, we need your help in 2022!!!!
- NEW! Love to grow veggies? Master Gardener volunteers are needed to provide advice for participants of the Grow This! Oregon Garden Challenge. Note: The sign up is only open to MGs at this time. Please do not share with the public-thanks!
- Must be a current Oregon Master Gardener volunteer (or a Master Gardener representing a county demonstration/educational garden).
- Sign up by midnight January 3rd and indicate that you are a Master Gardener when asked about your gardening experience.
- You will be mailed 5 seed packets free of charge (cilantro, green onions, kale, mesclun lettuce mix, zinnias) to plant.
- Must agree to give feedback on your growing process and results at least once—but as often as you want—during the Challenge. Feedback could include suggestions, comments, challenges and solutions, stories, photos, drawings or videos that we can share with others (with or without your name). You will receive an invitation to join our private discussion group—just for Master Gardeners—which will have monthly prompts and requests for your feedback. Report your active time spent on this project as Master Gardener volunteer hours (report as ‘community science’).
- Hope you are able to join in! Questions? please reach out to Brooke Edmunds, OSU Extension, brooke.edmunds@oregonstate.edu
- Winter In-person plant clinic. Solo shifts at the desk and shared shifts in the conference room are available by appointment. Also seeking on-call volunteers to meet clients or pick up samples from the office as needed, by appointment. Please contact elizabeth.records@oregonstate.edu to get started.
- Find ongoing and anytime opportunities on the Linn Volunteer Opportunities Page.
- Continuing education: It’s nearly winter and most live events are on holiday. Take some ‘you time’ to learn something new in our huge library of recorded webinars.
- Featured webinar: Trauma-Informed College Teaching: Prepare, Respond, Restore Jeff Kenney, Ph.D. Have you ever had a fellow MGV or client respond negatively or shut down seemingly out of the blue? Or had this experience yourself? Understanding how common trauma is and how it affects adult learners can help community educators like us to reach more people and reduce barriers to learning. Though this webinar was made for college instructors, most lessons are valuable for MGVs and volunteer Extension educators. I, Elizabeth, got a lot out of this and would really recommend it for MGVs who regularly teach others.
- 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!
- BCMGA news
- January Association Meeting 2022 (Open to the public) Monday Jan 24 Zoom link will be provided next month. Join us for the first Association meeting of the year with guest speaker Heather Stoven. Heather will give a presentation about “biological pesticides”. While something like rotenone has been around forever, there are new agents involving plant extracts, bacterial cultures, etc., that are becoming available to farmers and home gardeners in recent years, offering an alternative to synthetic chemical pesticides. Zoom in to learn more about these new developments and about uses and limitations.
- Extension updates:
- Holiday closures (and no eNews the weeks of 12/20 or 12/27):
- Christmas Day Observed 12/24
- New Years Day Observed 12/31
- 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.
- Holiday closures (and no eNews the weeks of 12/20 or 12/27):
- 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.)
- Please consider donating to the Growing Ancestral Roots fundraiser to support creating food equity and access to people of color through community gardens. You can learn more support this group HERE.
